2 CTCLOPnORID^. 



flainmis latis angulosis fust'o-viridibus et fasciis iiifrainedianis 

 nonnullis saturatiorihus picta ; spira elata, turbinata, acutiusfula ; 

 anfr. 5 convexis, rapide accrescentibus ; apertura obliqua, fere 

 circular!; perist. diiplice: iuterno expansiusculo, incurnbente, 

 externo rectangule pateiite, ad perforationeiii reflexo, earn fere 

 claudente. — Operc. virenti-lulvuin. 



"Diara. niaj. 13, min. 10, alt. lU nnll." {Pfeiffer.) 



Hah. Ceylon (Thivaites, H. Nevill). 



2. Leptopoma taprobanensis, Preston. 



Leptopotna taprohaneiisis, Preston, Rec. Ind. Mus. iii, 1909, p. 137, 

 pi. 22, fig. 4. 



Original description : — " Shell pyramidal, white, painted with 

 broad reddish brown flame markings ; w horls Ak, convex, the 

 apical whorls uniformly reddish brown, smooth, the remainder 

 sculptured throughout with spiral liras ; sutures deeply impressed; 

 base of shell convex ; umbilicus moderately broad ; peristome 

 continuous, single, reflexed, white; aperture circular. 



" Alt. 6*5 ; diam. major 6"25 ; aperture alt. 2-5, diam. 2-5 mm." 

 (Preston.) 



Hah. Ceylon. 



Subgenus TROCHOLEPTOPOMA, Koheh 4- MbUendorff. 



Trocholeptopo7na, Kobelt & Mollendorff, Nachr. Deuts. Malak. Ges. 

 xxix, 1897, p. 80; id., ('at. Pueum. 1899, p. 8; Kobelt, Das 

 Tierreich, Lief. 16, 1902, p. 17. 



Type, Cychstoma helicoides, Grateloup. 



Range. Burma, Andauians, Ceylon, Farther India, Malaysia, 

 New Gruinea. 



Shell more or less trochoid-turbinate, generally with distinct 

 spiral sculpture, frequently variegated ; last wiiorl compressed, 

 angulated, or keeled. 



3. Leptopoma apicatnm, Benson. 



Leptoj>oma apicatnm, Benson, A. M. N. H. ser. 2, xviii, 1856, 

 p. 95; Pfeiffer, Men. Pneum. Suppl. 1, I808, p. 73; Reeve, 

 Conch. Icon, xiii, 1862, Leptopoma, pi. (i, \\g. 33 ; H. Nevill. 

 Enimi. Helic. Pneuni. Cevloii, 1871, p. 5; Ilanle_v & Theobald, 

 Conch. Ind. 1876, pi. 142, fig. 1 ; Theobald, Cat. Shells Brit. 

 India, 1876, p. 37; Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 281; Sykes, 

 Journ. Malac. vii, 1899, p. 27. 



Leptopoma {Troclioleptopoma) apicatnm, Kobelt & Mollendorff, Naclir. 

 Deuts. Malak. Ges. xxix, 1897, p. 80 ; id.. Cat. Pneiun. 1899, p. 8 ; 

 Kobelt, Das Tierreich, Lief, lli, 1902, p. 18; id., Conch.-Cab., 

 Cyclophoridae, i, 1902, p. 446, pi. 55, %. 10. 



Original description : — " Testa subobtecte perforata, globoso- 

 conica, tenui, oblique striatula, sublente spiraliter coufertim 

 striata, albida, interdum flammulis et fascia unica infra peri- 



