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friend never returned * ; his loss to science was irreparable, for 

 there was no one in India then capable of working out much of the 

 material he collected, certainly in the MoUusca. I had long felt 

 that ia this part of the Kashmir Himalaya and away west to 

 Chitral and Swat many interesting species were to be collected, 

 and I may add in all the higher valleys from Kashmir eastwards 

 to Nepal. 



Miss Pocklington responded to my call most splendidly, overcame 

 the blanks of the early days' searchiugs, discovered where to look, 

 and finally sent me the results which 1 am now partly able to 

 describe, and I thank her for the great aid she has afforded to the 

 history of the Indian Land Mollusca and tlieir distribution. Among 

 the species preserved in spirit I find representatives of the genera 

 Limax, Anademift, Enaustenia, Bnliminus, &c. ; -while, curious to 

 say, there is not a single example of the species Ferd. Stoliczka 

 collected in 1874. This is to be accounted for, Stoliczka never got 

 far from the Zogila route, while Miss Pocklington was in camp 

 near the large glaciers much farther up the Valley. 



Family LIMACID.E, Gray. 



Eepresentatives of this family have not hitherto been described 

 from the Himalayan Eange, and it is not surprising that the first 

 should be found on the extreme North-west of the chain, on the 

 borderland of the Paliiearctic fauna and flora. It is an extremely 

 interesting fact in distribution, which all Malacologists will be 

 interested in. 



When describing this species of Lhnax, I cannot refrain from 

 saying how valuable I have found the detailed information in 

 Mr. John W. Taylor's Monograph of the Land and Freshwater 

 Mollusca of the British Isles, ou the generic divisions of the family. 



Subgenus Kasperia, nov. 



Several characters differ much from those found in the sub- 

 genera of Limax inhabiting the European area and extending into 

 Asia such as AgrioUmax and Milax. The form of the shell, the 

 strongly keeled foot, the very short and thickened vas deferens, 

 the very large black pigmented ovotestes, the form of the teeth of 

 the radula, these together I consider are sufficient to give this 

 Eastern form subgeneric rank. 



Limax (Kasperia) mat^, n. sp. (riate CXL. figs, 1-12.) 

 Locality. Tejwas or Tajwaz, Sonamurg, Kashmir. (Miss M. 

 * r/^^f notice of bis death (Proc. A. S. Bengal, 187-J, p. 152). 



