CEASPBDOTBOPI8. 15 



et castaneo flamniiilata; spira turbiiiata, vertice acuto ; anfr. 5i 

 coiivexiusciili, ultiiiius fascia lutea infra liraiii pt'riphei-icani ornatus, 

 basi paruin c-onvexus ; apertura paruiu oljliqua, subcircuiaris ; 

 perist. simplex, aiiguste expausuiii, iiiarginibus approximatis, 

 callo juucti.s. Operc. ? — Diaiii. maj. 7, iiiin. 0, alt. ."4 miu." 

 (Z( lebor.) 



Hub. Nicobar Islands (^Novara Expecl.). 



The species has not hitherto been illustrated, and I am pleased 

 to be able to give 3 views of a specimen in tlie British Museum. 



Genus CRASPEDOTROPIS, Blun/ord. 



Craspedotropis, Blanford, A. M. N. H. ser. 3, xiii, 1864, p. 454 (as sub- 

 genus of Ct/c/ophorus ); Pfeiffer, Mon. Pneum.Suppl. 2, 1865, p. 71 

 (Pgeuus) ; Nevill, Hand List, i, ]878, p. 278; Kobelt & MoUen- 

 dorff, Nachr. Ueuts. Malak. Ges. xxix, 1897, p. 86 (as genus); 

 id.. Cat. Pneum. 1899, p. 14; Kobelt, Das Tieireich, Lief. 16, 

 1902, p. 68. 



Type, CyclopJiorus cuspidatus, Benson. 



Range. India. 



Shell acuminate conoid, carinated, with a thick fuscous perio- 

 stracuni, the keel fimbriated. Operculum closely wound. 



24. Craspedotropis bilirata, Beddome. 



Ct/clop/iorus hiliratus, Beddome, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 452, pi. 53, fig. 34 ; 



Pfeiffer. .Men. Pneum. Suppl. 3, 1876, p. 408. 

 ? Craspedotropis bilirattis, Theobald, Cat. Shells Brit. India, 1876, 



Addenda, p. ii. 

 Ci/clophorus (Craspedotropis) biliratus, Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, 



Ditropis biliratus, Kobelt & Mcillendorff, Nachr. Deuts. Malak. Ge.>). 



xxix, 1897, p. 86; id., Cat. Pneum. 1899, p. 14, 

 Ditropis {Ditropis) biliratus, Kobelt. Das Tierreich, Lief. 16, 1902, 



p. 73. 



Original description : — " Shell umbilicated, turbinate, furnished 

 with a thick dark epidermis, which is soon obsolete on the fourth 

 or fifth upper whorl, but always present on the lowest one, where 

 it forms an oblique, coarse, hair-like striation most prominent 

 round the periphery and at the suture of the two lower whorls, 

 and generally round the umbilicus, where it forms quite a fringe ; 

 colour below the epidermis dull olive ; spire conical, apex subacute ; 

 whorls 6, the five upper ones smooth, convex, or sometimes the 

 fifth (or fourth and fiftli) with a slight rib round the centre ; 

 lowest wliorl with two prominent raised ribs round the periphery, 

 with a broad flat space between then), below convex, smooth or 

 with several raised striae, the whorl descending slightly near the 

 mouth ; aperture oblique, subcircular, slightly angled at the 

 termination of the ribs at the peristome ; umbilicus more or less 

 striated within ; peristome single, thin, contitnious, or slightly 

 interrupted on the penultimate ; operculum of a single laver, thin, 



