MOLLUSCA OF INDIA. 



433 



(No. 57.06.4.4), but only one example. It is quite of the type of 

 A. expatrlaius, constriction similar, but the shell is much more 

 depressed. It varies slightly from different localities. 



Among Bhinford's numerous and valuable tield-notes I find 

 '' Alifcceus footei irom the Wynaad only differs from the iShevroy 

 type in the spire being a little higher and the constricted portion of 

 last whorl between swollen part and mouth rather longer. Tlie 

 ridge on the coustriclioii is reverted. Diam. 5 x 4^, axis 3." 



Three rather large specimens ((x.-A. Coll. No. 2bd2 B.M.) possess 

 this character. Habitat Yercand, Shevroy Hills. 



In the Blanford Collection, No. 777.06.1.1, from the Kadiir 

 District, Mysore, represents a variety of A.footei, having the ridges 

 across the constriction high and narrow, not reverted. 



No. 279, Beddome Collection, in 5 specimens from Tinevelly the 

 same ridge is very low and inconspicuous. No. 280, same collection, 

 are small shells, rather higher in the spire, recorded irom tjouth 

 Canara. 



I have not been able to find time to figure all the Andaman and 

 South Indian Alijcai, but hope to do so in a Supplemental Tart to 

 Volume II. 



ALYCiEUS EXPATRIATUS, W. Blf. 



Blanford, Jour. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1 860, xxix. p. 123 ^_Pfr. Mon. 

 Pneum. iii. p. 52 ; Hanley & Theob. Conch. Ind. Ib70, p. 57, pi cxlv. 

 figs. 1, 4; Theobald, Cat. Supp. Ib76, p. 39 ; Nevill, Hand- list, i. 

 1S78, p. 295 : 7 Shevroy and Nilgiri Hills {coll. W. T. Blanford). 



Original description : — " Testa mediocriter umhilicata, depressa, 

 ad anfractos internos obsolete, ad ultimum fortius, ad spatium 

 injlatum valde, crebre costalata, corneo-albida, apice diaphane 

 rubella; spira vue elevata, apice obtusa ; sutura impressa ; au,fr. 

 '6k coiivexi, ultimus ad latus mediocriter injiatas, deinde co} istr ictus ; 

 constrictione longa, medio tumida, glabra ; tabtdam suturale pone 

 coiistrictionem oriens, mediocriter longum, plerumque I peripherire 

 subcequans, sed nonnulUs exemplis brevms ; apertura circularis, 

 obliqaa, jiixta anfr. penulthmmi retro curvatum ; perist. duplex ; 

 internum breviter porrectum, continuicvi, externum expansum, 

 interruptum, columellari margine strictum. Opercidum corneum, 

 distincte midtispirum. A nfr. 7- 8 planulatis, externe perconcavum, 

 nucleo centrali interno prominenie papillari. 



" Diam. maj. 4|, min. 3|, alt. 2|, apert. diam. 1| mm. 



" Bab. Haud raro ad Neddoowut'tom ghat, ad latus septentrionale 

 montium ' Nilgiri ' India3 australis et circa 3U00-4OOU ped. alt. 



"This species appears to be more depressed in the spire than any 

 other of the genus, except perhaps the Bornean A. spiracellum, 

 A. Ad, & Reeve. Its nearest Indian ally is A. strangulatus, 

 Hutton, and in size it is intermediate between that species and 

 A. stglifer, Bens. It belongs to the section Charax of Benson, 

 having a wide strangulation behind the peristome, crossed by a 

 swollen ridge, which, however, in A. exputriatas never presents the 



