CYATHOPOMA. 13:5 



spinilly Urate, thin, seiniti'anspiirent, whitish, funiislied witli a 

 deciduous brownish vertically but inconspicuously striated epider- 

 mis, subobsolete on some specimens; spire conical; whorls 5, 

 rounded, furnished with numerous close, rather inconspicuous 

 spiral lines, along which are numerous, rather distant, patent or 

 suberect long black lines ; umbilicus inore or less open, with 

 a more or less prominent lieel at its entrance, inconspicuously 

 ribbed or smooth witliin; a[)erture subvertical, circular; peristome 

 single, subdouble or double, entire or with the outer margin 

 beautifully crenated ; operculum subdouble, externally white and 

 shelly, and a little concave from the margins being raised, multi- 

 spiral, with a lai'ge central transparent nucleus, internally mem- 

 branaceous, convex, yellowish, shining: length J^ incli p*3 mm.], 

 greatest diameter yL. to j\ inch [2-5-l-7o mm.]." 



Ilab. India: South Canara Ghats; AnaniuUays (Beddomc). 



" The peristome, the umbilical region, and even tlie shape of the 

 shell are. very variable." {Beddome.) 



185. Cyathopoma beddomeaiium, Nevill. 



Cyathopoma [Jerdotiia) b/inifordi, Beddome, P. Z. S 1875, p. 140, 



pi. ij-j, tig. J;] (uot Ci/at/toponia hlanfordi, II. Adams, ISfiS) ; 



Theobald, Cat. Shells liiit. India, 1876, Addenda, p. ii ; PfeitTer, 



Mon. Pneum. Suppl. 0, 1 870, p. »^77. 

 Cyatliopoma (Jerdonia) heddomeamnn (uom. nmt.), Nevill, J. A.S. B, 



1, 1881, p. 145. 

 Cyathopoma (s. str.) beddo^neajinm. Kobelt & Mulleudorff, Nacln-. 



Deuts. Malak. Ges. xxix, 1897, p. 119; id., Cat. Pnenm. 1899, 



P-31. 

 Cyathopoma [Ci/athoponm) bcddomeami»i, Kobelt, Das Tierreich, 

 Lief. 16, 1902, p. •220. 



Original description : — " yiiell thin, umbilicated, pyramidal, 

 turreted, straw-coloured, apex attenuated and subacute ; whorls 6, 

 sutures prominent, all the whorls, except the two small apical 

 ones, prominently carinated ; carinations two to three on the third 

 whorl, three to live on the fourth, five to seven on the lowest, 

 those about the umbilical region rather distant; umbilicus per- 

 vious ; aperture circular ; peristome thin, single, contiinious, incon- 

 spicuously crenulate ; operculum as in the last species \jiitidum]: 

 length j inch [3-") mm.], grt-atest diameter -Jy inch [2-25 mm.]." 



Hah. India: Tinnevelly jMountains, 4000 ft. {Beddome). 



" I have a cdosely allied species from Ceylon, Jerdonia dicko)/- 

 eusis (Nevill MS.) ; it is rather smaller, with a finer carination, 

 and much smoother about the umbilical region ; and I think 

 specifically distinct." (Beddome.) 



186. Cyathopoma coonoorense, BJanford. 



Ci/afhopomn coonoore7isc, Blaiiford, .Tnnrn. Conchvl. xvi, 1868, 

 'p. 201, pi. 12, fio-. 0: Ilanlev & Theobald, Conch. Ind. 1875, 

 pi. 185, fig. 10; Pfeifler, Mon. Pneum. Suppl. 3, 1875, p. 25; 

 Nevill, Haud List, i, 1878, p. 259. 



