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pale with an ochraceous tint; spii-e high, conic, apex bhmt, suture 

 impressed ; whorls 4.4, the constriction slight, nearly straight up 

 to the reflected peristome and slightly rising ; aperture circular ; 

 peristome simple strong, double, outer well retlected ; operculum 

 smooth, i)ale horny. 



Size : maj, diam. 2-9 ; alt. 2 9 mm. 



This is quite distinct from A. hemhex, which I at first thought 

 it to be, but the umbilical region ditt'ers mucli. I have some 10 

 specimens from this high peak, collected by Mr. AYm. Kobert. 



2 a. Eastern Bhutan. 

 Up to the Barowli lliver. 



I came across two interesting Alyccei in the Beddome Collection 

 recorded from Bhutan, which is not definite enough, for the frontier 

 of that great country extends for over 200 miles along the base 

 of the Eastern Himalaya. It is a pity the precise locality was 

 not given, nor the collector, so often a good clue. I am under the 

 impression the late Mr. Muspratt of the Assam Police collected 

 these shells for Beddome, and from an uncle of his, Dr. Muspratt 

 of Bournemouth, I hear he was at one time in Durrang at Tezpur, 

 but not farther to the westward. This has been confirmed by 

 Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker, now Secretary, British Ornithologists' 

 Union, who for many years served in Assam in the Police, and is 

 well known for his ornithological researches there, particularly in 

 the mountainous parts of the Naga Hills. He tells me Muspratt was 

 at Tezpur, never farther to the westward, and could not therefore 

 have collected at the base of the Bhutan Hills proper, which begin 

 at Dewangiri. Muspratt collected successfully also in the Kaga 

 Hills 50 miles east of Kohima, in the Anghami Naga Hills, 



Alyc^us bhittanensis, u. sp. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 8.) No. 290, 

 Bedd. Coll. B.M. 



Locality. Bhutan Frontier, probably on Eastern, or Aka Hills, 

 side. 



Burti, var. major, Bedd. MSS. on label, 2 specimens. 



Shell depressedly globose ; sculpture extremely fine longitudinal 

 liration crossed by fine close costulation, on the u])per whorls, 

 close and much stronger next the sutural tube ; colour pale horny ; 

 spire low, apex small, suture impressed; whorls 4, the last much 

 swollen on the long sutural tube, constriction hardly to be seen, 

 distance from tube to aperture very short ; aperture rather broadly 

 oval, curved on the columellar margin, 3 shallow notches, and '3 

 subvertical-elongato teeth ; peristome double, evenly reflected, 

 strong. 



Size: maj. diam. 7"1 ; alt. 3*9 mm. 



The sculpture is very peculiar, and beyond the crenulated peri- 

 stome it lias no similarity with A. hirti. It is a fine interesting 



