Um AND FRESHWATER MOLLUSCA 



OF 



INDIA. 



YOL. IT. 



Part XII.— DECEMBER 1914. 



(Plates CXXXIII.— CLVIII.) 



IFIRODUCTION. 



The first notice we have of representatives of slugs belonging to a 

 Palsearctic Family occurring in the Himalayas, is a note of Ferdinand 

 Stoliczka's quoted by G. Nevill in 'Scientific llesults of the Second 

 Tarkand Mission ' (1878), p. 21, under 26, AnaAeniis sp, : "I also 

 found near hci'e (Chaugligali near Murree) specimens of an Arion 

 aud specimens of two other Arion-like slugs." On this Mission 

 Dr. Stoliczka collected Mollusca over a great extent of country, one 

 place being Sonamurg at the liead of the Sind Valley, Kashmir, 

 Here he obtained ausienianus, Nev., a species of Parvatella with 

 Jcashmirensis, Nev. and sonamurg ensis, Nev., of which the true 

 generic position is unknown ; they were placed in Nanina {Rotulci) 

 by Nevill. This was some 35 years ago, since when, out of the 

 many hundreds of English travellers who have passed this way, 

 not one happened to be a couchologist. 



Last summer (1910), on hearing Mrs. Pocklington and her 

 daughter were in Kashmir and going to spend several weeks at 

 the head of the Sind Valley, I enlisted the latter's services in a 

 search for land shells and particularly slugs — remembering what 

 Stoliczka had obtained when rapidly passing through Sonamurg 

 with the Forsyth Mission to Yarkand, from which country my 



PAKT XII. 2 D 



