CrCLOPlIORUS. I& 



acute apex, tliiu, yellowish, with one broad super-pheripheral,. 

 blackish-brown band and a broad sub-peripheral band, ini- 

 niediatelv below which are two narrow bands ot the same colour 

 on the last whorl, the earlier whorls being reddish-brown, mottled 

 with yellowish-grey ; whorls 5, the last two rapidly increasinir, 

 sculptured with irregular lines of growth, crossed by rather 

 broad, but ilat, spiral I'idges, the last whorl carinate at the 

 periphery ; suture incised, narrowly margined above ; umbilicus 

 moderately broad, deep : labrum continuous, somewhat thickened, 

 but not retiexed, crimson ; aperture large, sub-circular ; interior 

 of shell glossy, smooth, polished, bluish, the colour-bands being 

 visible through the test ; operculum laminiferous, witli central 

 nucleus, having about 8 convolutions. Alt. 44, diain. niaj. 53'75, 

 min. 40 mm. Aperture : alt. 24, diam. 25 nun." {Preston.) 



Hub. India : Xaga Hills. 



A white-lipped variety is stated to occur also. 



106. Cyclophorus birmanus, Pfeiffer. 



Li'ptopu)iia hinn/inuiN, Pfeiffer, Mon. I'lieum. 1852, p 117; id., 

 Zeits. Malak. viii, 1852, p. 147; id., Cat. Pbaneropn. Bri:. 

 Mus. 1852, p. 83; id., .Men. Pneum. Siippl. 1, 1858, p. 7(5; 

 Suppl. 2, 1865, p. 85; id., Suppl. 3, 1875, p. 134; Stoliczka, 

 J. A. S. B., xli, 1872, p. 262 (C. siame7i,us>, juv.). 



Cijclustomahirmanum, Pfeiffer, Couch. -Cab., Cyelustomaceeu, 1854^ 

 p. 363, pi. 47, li.irs. 4-7. 



Cyclnphoriis birmanus, Adams, Gen. Kec. Moll, ii, 1855, p. 279. 



Original description : — " T. perforata, globoso-conica, tenuis,, 

 acute carinata, oblique striata, lineis spiralibus obsoletissimus 

 sculpta, parum nitida, dia|)hana, fusco-lutea, strigis latis angulatis 

 et fasciis interruptis castaneis ornata ; spira turbinata, obtusula ; 

 anfr. 44 convexiusculi, ultimus basi tumidus : apertura parum 

 obliqua, subtetragona, intus coerulescens, niar<.'aritacea ; ])erist. 

 simplex, acutum, marginibus remotis, rectis (an serius reflexis '?). — 

 Operc. immersum, membranaceum, arctispirum, luteo-corneum. — 

 Diam. maj. 14^, min. 12, alt. 10 milL ap. verticaliter 8^ mill, 

 longa, Ih lata." (Pfeiffer.) 



Hah. Burma. 



Stoliczka considered C. birmanus to be based on an immature 

 specimen. The figure of the shell given by Pfeiffer hardly 

 warrants this view, and I consider the best course to retain the 

 species until better evidence is forthcoming as to its status. 



107. Cyclophorus cucullatus, Gould. 



Ci/closfoma cucu/hdns, Gould, Proc. Hoston Soc. Xat. IIi<t. vi, 1856, 



■ p. 14; id., Otia Cmioh. 1862, p. 221. 

 Ci/clop/iorus a/ci/llnti/s, Pfeiffer. Mon. Pneniii. Sup]!l. 1, 1858,, 



p. 44 ; Reeve. Conch. Icon, xiii, 1861 . Ci/c/ophorii", ])1. 11, fig. 44 ;. 



Pfeiffer, op. cit. Suppl. 2, 1865, p. 63. 



