18 CYCLOPHOEID^. 



27. Craspedotropis salemensis, Beddome. 



Cyclophorus salemensis, Beddome, P. Z.S. 1875, p. 453, pi. 53, 



tig. 3o ; Pfeiffer, Mou. Pueum. Suppl. 3, 1876, p. 408. 

 Craspedotropis salemensis, Hanley & Theobald, Conch. Ind. 1876, 



p. xiii. 

 Ditropis salejnensis, Kobelt & Mollendorff, Nachr. Deuts. Malak. 



Gei. xxix, 1897, p. 87 ; id., Cat. Pueum. 1899,p. 15. 

 Ditropis {Ditropis) salemensis, Kobelt, Das Tierreicb, Lief. 16, 1902, 



p. 77. 



Original descri-ption: — " Shell nioderatel}' uiiibilicated, turbinate, 

 with the spire ratlier aciuuinate, of a dull olive-green, farni.shed 

 with a dirty dark brown, obliquely striated, thread-like epideriuis, 

 which is early deciduous on the upper whorls, but always present 

 on the lowest, and round the umbilicus, where it forms a fringe ; 

 whorls 6, the upper five generally smooth, convex, or the tifth 

 more or less bilirate towards its termination ; lowest whorl a 

 little descending in front, convex below, furnished with five 

 prominent spiral costulations abo\e the region of the periphery, 

 and four to five below it, which latter are only conspicuous towards 

 the termination of the whorl ; umbilicus spirally Urate within ; 

 aperture oblique, subcircular, angled at its apex ; peristome single, 

 continuous, angled at its apex, and suddenly contracted a little 

 below the apex of its riii;ht margin, and slightly angled at the 

 centre of the same margin (at the exit of tlie lower or most 

 ])rominent of the costulations round the periphery) ; operculum 

 as in C. hiliratus and cuspidatris : length -^^j inch [5*5 mm.], and 

 the greatest diameter equalling the length." {Beddome.) 



Hah. India : Shevaroy Hills, 8alem district {Beddome). 



The remarks under G, hilirata as to its generic position apply to 

 the present species. Col. Beddome considered its affinities to be 

 with bilirata and cuspidata. 



Genus LEPTOPOMOIDES, Nevill. 



Leptopofnoides, Nevill, Haud List, i, 1878, p. 273 (as subgeiuis of 

 Cyclophorus) ; Fischer, Man. Conchyl. 1885, p. 744 (as section of 

 Cyclophorus, s. s.) ; Kobelt, Das Tierreicb, Lief. 16, 1902, p. 69 

 (as genus). 



Leptopomatoides (em.), Martens, Zool. Record, xv, 1878, Moll. p. 78 ; 

 Kobelt & Mollendorff, Nachr. Deuts. Malak. Ges. xxix, 1897, 

 p. 86; id., op. cit. xxxi, 1899, p. 131; id., Cat. Pneum, 1899, 

 pp. 14, 98. 



Type, (1st species) Cyclostom,a halophilnin, Benson. 

 Range. Southern India and Ceylon. 



Shell narrowly umbilicated, turbinate or conoid, thin, smootii or 

 covered with fine spiral lirae. Peristome more or less discontinuous. 

 Operculum thin, almost membranaceous, narrowly coiled. 



