46 CTCLOPHORlD^. 



coiitiuuous, expanded, or straight. Operculum corneous, thin, 

 narrowly coiled, more or less concave externally, smooth, edges of 

 whorls not raised. 



Subgenus LITOSTYLUS, Kohelt ^- MdUendorff. 



Litostylus (ucm. uud.), Kobelt & Mollendorff, Nachr. Deuts. Malak. 

 Ges. xxix, 1897, p. 8S (part.); id., Cat. Pneum. 1899, p. 16; 

 Kobelt, Das Tierreich, Lief. 16, 1902, p. 97. 



Type, Helix iavolvulus, Miiller. 



Range. India, Ceylon, Farther India, Philippines. 

 " Shell more or less depressed, ribbed or spirally lirate, peristome 

 not dilated." {Kohelt.) 



67. Cyclophorus ceylanicus, Pfeiff'er. 



Cyclostuma ceylaniimm (Sowerby MS.), Pfeiffer, Conch. -Cab., Cyclo- 



stomaceen, 1849, p. 171, pi. 29, tig.s. 1-3. 

 Cydostoma indicum, Sowerby, Theti. Conch, ii, 1850, p. 163 *, pi. 31 b, 



tigs. 320, 321 (uon Deshayes). 

 Cyclophorus ceylanicus, Pfeitfer, Zeits. Malak. viii, 1851, p. 140 ; 



id., Mon. Pneum. 1852, p. 70 ; id., Cat. Phaueropn. Brit. 



Mus. 1852, p. 47 ; xldams, Gen. Rec. Moll, ii, 1855, p. 272 ; 



Pfeiffer, op. eit. Suppl. 1, 18-58, p. 51 ; Suppl. 2, 1865, p. 66; 



Hanley & Theobald, Couch. Ind. 1870, pi. .33, fig. 2: H. 



Nevill, Eninn. Helic. Pneum. Ceylon, 1871, p. 4 ; Pfeiffer, 



Suppl. 3, 1875, pp. 105, 406 ; Hanley & Theobald, Conch. Ind. 



1876, p. XV ; Theobald, Cat. Shells Biit. India, 1876, p. 35; 



Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 272. 

 Ci/clophorus inenkeanus, Reeve, Conch. Icon, xiii, 1861, Cyclophorus, 



' pi. 10, fig. 42 (non Philippi). 

 Cyclophorus {Litostylus) ceylanicus, Kobelt & Mollendorff, Nachr. 



Dents. Malak. Ges. xxix, 1897, p. 105; id.. Cat. Pneum. 1899, 



p. 17 ; Kobelt, Das Tierreich, Lief. 16, 1902, p. 98 ; id., Conch.- 



Cab., Cyclophoridae, i, 1908, p. 689, pi. 101, tigs. 9, 10, pi. 103, 



figs. 7, 8. 



Original description: — '• C. testa umbilicata, depresso-turbinata, 

 solida, liris permuitis elevatis acutis (iuterpositis minoribus) 

 striisque lougitiulmalibus couFertissiiuis decussata, saturate ca.s- 

 tanea, strigis albis, angustis. uiidulatis picta ; spira conoidea, 

 obtusiuscula ; anfr. 5 convexis, ultimo infra carinam submedianam, 

 acutiorura fascia lata nigricante ornato, circa umbilicum infundi- 

 buliformem subconipresso, stramineo ; apertura subobliqua, sub- 

 circulari, intus cojrulescenti-alba ; perist. iucrassato, candido, 

 marginibus callo tenui superne angulatim juuctis, dextro expanso, 

 coluuiellari retlexo. — Operc. corneuni, arctispiruui, extus vix 

 eoQcavum. 



" 13iam. maj. 37, min. 30, alt. 124 mill. Ap. intus oblique 

 17 mill, longa." (Pfeiffer.) 



Nab. Ceylon. 



Allied to C. stenomphalus, but the spirals are much more pro- 

 minent and more acute. 



