PSEUDOPOMATIAR. 159 



Spire rapidly decreasing to apex. Whorls 9, slightly convex, the 

 last rounded below. Aperture vertical, circular. Peristome 

 double, tliickened, reflected, continuous, slightly angular at upper 

 outer margin. Operculum thin, horny, indi:>tinctly spiral in 

 some specimens. 



" Alt. 0-55 [14 mm.], diam. 0-20 [5 mm.], diam. ap. 0-17 in. 

 [4 ram.]." 



llah. India: Shengorh Peak, Dafla Hills, Assam (Go'hinn- 

 Ansten). 



" Its \evy large size distinguishes it at once from P.himalai/coK^ 

 and P. pleirrophonis, but it also differs in its more tumid form, 

 the greater number of its whorls, its rounder aperture without 

 the distinct small notch, and in not being so strongly costulated." 

 ( Gochvln- Austen.) 



227. Pseudopomatias himalayae, Benson. 



Poinatias Jiimaloi/fe, Henson, A. M. N. II. ser. 3, iii, 1859, p. 123 ; 



Sowerbv, Thes. Conch, iii, 18G4, p. 266, pi. 259, fi<rs. 19, 20; 



Pfeiffer," Mon. Pneum. Suppl. 2, 1865, p. 169; Ilanlev & 



Theobald, Conch. Ind. 1870, pi. 7, fio. 9; Pfeiffer. Novit. Conch. 



ser. 1, iv, 1871, p. 14, pi. 112, figs. 11-13. 

 Poinatias himalayance, Godwin- Austen, J. A. S. B. xlv, part 2, 



1876, p. 181. 

 Pomatias hwialayana, Theobald, Cat. Sliells Brit. India, 1876, p. 41. 

 Pomatids himalayanns, Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 255. 

 Pseiidojjomatias Idnialajic^, Mollendorff, Jahrb. Deuts. Malak. Ges. 



xiii, 1886, p. 178; Kobelt >^ MollendorfF, Nachr. Deuts. Malak. 



Ges. xxix, 1897, p. 142; id., Cat. Pneum. 1899, p. 38; Kobelt, 



Da.': Tierreich, Lief. 16, 1902, p. 273 ; Godwin- Austen, Rec. lud. 



Mus. viii, 1917, p. 579, text-fig. 6d. 



Onginal description -. — ''Testa, perforata, attenuato- turrita, 

 solidiuscula, oblique confertim crassicostata, albida, epidermide 

 tenui pallide cornea induta; spira elongato- turrita, sensim 

 decrescente, apice obtuso, sutura impressa ; anfractibus 7-8 con- 

 vexiusculis, ultimo rotundato, costis remotioribus nonnullis 

 intervenientibus, mox desinentibus, pone aperturam munito; 

 apertura verticali, ovato-rotundata; peristomate duplici, incras- 

 sato, externo expanso reflexiusculo, interno continuo, superne ad 

 angulum parietalem fissura minima profunda diviso. Operculo 

 tenuissimo, membranaceo, translucente, paucispirato. 



"Long. 5^-10, diam. 2^-4 mill. Apertura majoris 8 mill, 

 longa, 2^ lata." (Benson.) 



Ilnb. 'India: Darjeeling, 7000 ft.. Eungun Valley, 4000 ft. 

 (Bhnford) ; Toruputu and Shengorh Peaks, Dafla Hills (God- 

 %vin- Austen). 



228, Pseudopomatias luyorensis, Godrvin- Austen. 



Pseudopomatias Im/orensis, Godwin-Austen, Rec. Ind. 3Iu9. viii, 

 1917, p. 578, text-fig. 5 B. 



Original description: — "Shell perforate, elongatelv fusiform, 

 turreted. somewhat tumid, solid; sculpture fine close and regular 

 costulation ; colour pale umber brown ; spire high, sides flatly 



