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Genus Euplecta. 

 {Continued from Vol. II. p. 104.) 



Epplecta phideas, Thorp MS. 



jMdias, Thorp MS. apud Hanley (Helix), H. & T. C. I. 1876, 

 p. 59, pi. ] 49. fig. 4 (no description). 

 Faun. Brit. Ind., Moll. p. 71. 



Animal. From a specimen from Kandy sent me by Mr. O. 

 Collett. Foot pale ochre with a dark patch on side of the neck, 

 the overhanging lobe at extremity of foot conspicuous. The left 

 dorsal lobe not divided, a mere narrow strip ; peripodial maro-in 

 broad, fringed, and paler than the part above, the peripodial 

 grooves very close together. 



In the genitalia the male organ with a distiuct loop as in larger 

 forms of the genus ; amatorial organ large. 



Jaw very strongly arched with no central projection. 



Eadula with the usual central admedian and a large number of 

 lateral teeth, all evenly bicuspid and becoming very minute on 

 the edges. Formula : 



60 . 1 . 16 . 1 . 16 . 1 . 60 



77 . 1 . 77. 



Euplecta gaedeneui, Pfr. 



Mart. & Chemn. (Helix) Conch.-Cab. ed. 2, 1846, Heliv no 703 

 pi. 112. figs. 12, 13 ; id. (Hellv) Mon. Hel. i. 1847, p. 47 ; id t c 

 vii. 1876, p. 87; H. & T. (Helix) C. I. 1876, pi. 84. fig. 7. 



Faun. Brit. Ind., Moll. pp. 40, 64. 



LocaliUj. In forest, Uva, 5000 ft., beneath fallen leaves (0. Collett). 



The animal with visceral sac very dark in colour, probably a 

 dark grey in life. The right dorsal lobe ample, the left in two 

 distinct widely separated parts, the posterior long and narrow. 

 A pointed lobe over the mucous gland. No division of the sole 

 of the foot. The peripodial margin narrow, the two grooves above 

 rather wide apart. 



In the genitalia the penis is looped up for a considerable length 

 by a strong muscle encircling the penis. The cfficum of the 

 retractor muscle (cr.p) is long, and there is shortish blunt kale-sac. 

 The_ vas deferens very long; the spermatheca very small and 

 sessile ; the amatorial organ very long, nearly of the same diameter 

 for whole length ; buccal muscles of great strength. 



Jaw curved, with a very slight central projection. 



In radula the laterals are evenly bicuspid. Formula : 



48 . 1 . 14 . 1 . 14 . 1 . 48 

 63 . 1 . 63. 



Although the shell is so very different to the typical species 

 subopaca and layardi, this radula conforms in every respect with 

 that of Euplecta ; the generative organs are also similar. 



