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CTCLOPIIORIDjE. 



apertura subcircularis, peristomate leviter incrassato, superne 

 leviter exciso. Alt. 2-5, diam. 4 mm." (SyJces.) 



Hah. Ceylon : Ambegamiia (Colhtt). 



" The first species of the genus recorded from Ceylon. The 

 shell is clothed with a dense periostracum, which forms transverse 

 and spiral lines, the latter having a few hairs scattered along them. 

 The notch is small but distinct." 



15. Japonia phayrei, Theobald. 



Jerdonia i^?) phayrei, Theobald, J. A. S. B. xxxix, part 2, 1870, p. 396 ; 



Hanley & Theobald, Conch. Iiid. 1875, pi. 135, fig. 3. 

 Mijchopoma phai/rei, Theobald, Cat. Shells Br. India, 1870, p. 39. 

 Cyclophorus phayrei, Theobald, Op. cit.. Addenda, p. ii. 

 Layochilus phayrei, Kobelt & MoUendorff, Nachr. Deuts. Malak. 



Ges. xxxi. 1899, p. 130; id., Cat. Pneum. 1899, p. 98. 

 Japonia (Laqochilus) phayrei, Kobelt, Das Tierreich, Lief. 16, 1902, 



p. 50. 



Orighud description : — " Testa parva, turbinata, perforata ; apice 

 exserto ; anfractibus quinque, angulariter quadratis, convexe pla- 

 natis, bicarinatis : carina quaque plurimis setis regulariter radiatim 

 parumque sursum inclinatis armata, hac peripheriali, ilia ad 

 suturam posita, in ultimo anfraetu tantim carinis duabus solutis 

 apparentibus ; area circum umbiliacari duabus carinis filiformi- 

 bus circumdata, umbilicum Aalde profundum coarctantibus. Epi- 

 dermide vix scabriuscula, fusca, ad aperturam leviter striata. 

 Apertura subcirculari, Integra, baud obliqua ; peristomate prope 

 marginem superiorem breviter expanso. Diaui. major -13, diam. 

 min. TO, alt. -12 unc." [3-25, 2-5, 3mm.] (Theobald.) 



Hob. Shan States : Upper Salween Valley (Fedden). 



16. Japonia polynema, Mdrch. 



Cyclophorus (Craxpedotropis) polynema, Morch, .lourn. Conchyl. 



xxiv, 1876, p. 361. 

 Loptopoina polyyiema, PfeifFer, Malak. Blatt. xxiv, 1877, p. 148. 

 LiHjochedus polynema, Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 283. 

 Layochilus (s. s.) polynema, Kobelt & [MollendorfF, Nachr. Deuts. 



Malak. Ges. xxix, 1897, p. 84; id^. Cat. Pneum. 1899, p. 12. 

 Japonia {Lar/ochilus) polynema, Kobelt, Das Tierreich, Lief. 16 



1902, p. 51. 



Fig. 2. — Japonia polynema. (X 3.) 



Original description : — " Differt a prseeidentibus [C. galathece 

 & C. roepstorfi] t. solidiore. opaca, liris confertissimis, alternatiin 

 minoribus ; flammis pallidioribus et irregularioribus. Diam. 

 6 mill. alt. 3i." {Mdrch.) 



