16 CYCLOPHORID^. 



horny, inultispiral, concave externally, nucleus small, central : 

 height of shell ^ inch [5 mm.], slightly more than the breadth of 

 the lowest whorl." 



Hah. India : South Cauara range of Ghats, 2500 feet elevation 

 (Beddome); Wynaad? (Beddome). 



Fio'. 6. — Craspedofropis bilirata. (X 3.) 



"This shell is closely allied to Cydophorus cuspidatus, Bens. 

 {Craspedotropis, Blauf.) ; it has exactly the same operculum (the 

 two not being in any way distinguishable), which, however, seems 

 scarcely to diifer from tliat of many typical species of Ci/chphoms, 

 except, perhaps, in being more closely wound, certainly not enough 

 to constitute a subgenus." (Beddome.) 



Nevill mentions * another Cyclopliorus hilirattis, Beddome, 

 under the subgenus Leptopomoides from the Wynaad, but it is 

 uncertain whether this is the same as the Canara form. 



The specimen figured is from the Beddome collection, and 

 measures 3-5 mm. in diameter, alt. 4 mm. In describing tlie 

 species Col. Beddome stated it was allied to Cydophorus cuspA- 

 datus. Nevill referred it to Craspedotropis, but Kobelt and 

 MolleudorfF placed it in Ditropis. Its affinities appear to me to 

 warrant its inclusion in the former rather than in the latter genus. 



25. Craspedotropis cuspidata, Benson. 



Cydostoma cuspidatmn, Benson, A. M. N. H. ser. 2, viii, 1851, 



p. 189; Pfeiffer, Mon. Piieum. 1852, p. .S13; id., Cat. Plianeropn. 



Brit. :Mus. 1852, p. 223 ; id., Conch.-Cab., Cydostoma, 1854, p. 378, 



pi. 49, figs. 21-23. 

 Cydophorus atitpidatus, Benson, A. M. N. H. ser. 2, xiv, 1854, p. 415 ; 

 ■ Pfeiffer, Mon. Pneum. Suppl. 1, 1858, p. 62; Reeve, Conch. 



Icon, xiii, 1861, Cydophorus, pi. 19, tig. 93 ; Blauford, A.M. N. II. 



ser. 3, xiii, 1864, p. 454. 

 Craspedotropis cusjndatus, Hanley & Theobald, Conch. Iiid. 1875, 



pi. 135, figs. 1, 4 ; Theobald, Cat. Shells Brit. India, 1876, p. 37. 

 Cydophorus (Craspedotropis) cuspidatus, Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, 



p. 278. 

 Craspedotropis cuspidata, Kobelt & Mollendorfi", Nachr. Deuts. 



Malak. Ges. xxix, 1897, p. 86; id., Cat. Pneiun. 1899, p. 14; 



Kobelt, Das Tierreich, Lief. 16, 1902, p. 68, fig. 13. 



Original description : — " Testa umbilicata, acuminato-conoidea, 

 oblique striata, lineis spiralibus circumdata, epidermide olivaceo- 



* Hand List, i, 1878, p. 274. 



