JAPONIA.. 



9. Japonia daflaensis, Go'hvin- Austen. 



Lagucheilus dafaensis, Godwin-Austen, Ilec. Ind. Mus. viii, 1918, 

 p. 575, text-tig. 3 C. 



Orvjinal description: — "Shell elonf;;ately conoid, umbilicated ; 

 sculpture about ten fine lirse, regularly disposed, crossed by fine 

 epidermal striae of growth ; colour dark brown ; spire, sides nearly 

 flat, apex fine; suture moderately impressed; whorls 6, sides 

 rounded, evenly increasing; aperture circular, obtusely angulated 

 above ; peristome double, continuous, sinuate on outer margin, 

 with small nick at tlie suture. 



" Size (largest) : major diameter 5*2, alt. axis 4*0 mm." 

 Hob. India: Toruputu, Dafla Hills (Godwin- Austen). 



10. Japonia galatheae, MdrcJi. 



Ct/vlujj/torus {Crasj)edotropis) r/alathe(e, yioTch, Joiirn. Couchyl. xx, 



1872, p. 315 ; id., Yid. Meddel. ser. 3, iv, 1872, p. 22 ; id., 



Journ. Conchyl. xxiv, 1876, p. 361. 

 Loptopoma (err. tjp.) galatheae, Pfeiffer, Malak. Bliitt. xxiv, 1877, 



p. 148. 

 Leptf'pima? galatheae {Cyclophorus),'Pi%\Ser, Men. Pneum. Suppl. 3, 



1876, p. 128. 

 Lagocheilus galathecE + v&r. minor, Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, 



p. 283 : Godwin-Austen, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 444. 

 Lagochilus {Lngochilus) (jcdntheiie, Ivobelt & Mcillendorft", Xachr. 



Deuts. Malak. Ges. xxix, 1877, p. 83; id., Cat. Pneum. 1899, p. 11. 

 Japonia (Lagochilus) galatheae, Kobelt, Das Tierreich, Lief. 16, 



1902, p. 43. 



Original description: — " T. depresso-conica, perforato-umbilicata ; 

 anfr. bl convexiusculi ; sutura sat profunda, lineis acutis spirali- 

 bus in anfr. penuU. circ, 10-12, in ultimo circiter 20, umbilicum 

 versus distantioribus at obsoletioribus ; fasciis brunneis obliquis 

 subsigmoideis, suturam versus latiorilnis, umbilicum versus in- 

 trantibus. Striae increment i, parum prominentes. Ap^rtura 

 diagonalis, circularis, intus coerulcscens, peristomate breviter 

 expauso, duplice, interno albo, externo fusco, callo parietali ad 

 insertionem marginis superioris exciso. 



" Diam. maj. 6 mill.; axis 4 mill. ; alt. max. 6| mill.; ap. 

 diam. 3 mill." {Morch.) 



Hah. Xicobars: Borders of Galathea Eiver(i2cmAarfZ<); Teressa, 

 Katchal, Kamorta (Koepstorf) ; Is'icobars (StoHczka.) 



Morcli records a var. minor, measuring only 5 mm. in diameter, 

 from Katchal. 



J. (jalathece is allied to ./. roepstorfi, but the latter has more 

 distant, filiated spiral lirse, is more depressed, and has a wider 

 uiiiliilicus. 



The species has never been illustrated, and I have been unable 

 to find specimens in any collection to which I have had access. 



