198 CTCLOPnoKiD.i:. 



thickened, a narrow cleft on the columellar margin, external canal 

 horizontal, narrow, upper margin moderately wide. 



" Major diani. 3-5, alt. axis 5 mm." [Go'/ivin-Austen.) 

 Bab. Burma: Tongoop Pass, Aiakan Hills (i??rfH/o/-rf). 

 "The species differs in its small and globose form from all 

 otliers I ha\e examined, and the aperture is fully formed.'" (G.-A.). 



Subfamily ALYC.EIN^. 



Genus CIORYX, Benson. 



Dioyyx (part.), Benson, A. M. jN'. II. ser. 3, iii, 1859, p. 177 (as 

 section oi Alycazts) ; Pfeift'er, Men. Pnenm. Su])pl. 2, 18(35, p. 44; 

 Godwin-Austen, Land & Freshw. Moll. Indin, i, 1886, p. 187, 

 (as subg-emis) ; Kobelt & Miillendorff, Nachr. Deuts. Malak. Ges. 

 xxix, 1897, p. 149 (genus) ; id.. Cat. Pneun-i. 1899, p. 45 ; Kobelt, 

 Das Tieneich, Lief. 16, 190i', p. 336. 



Type (first species), Alycceus amjJiora, Benson. 



llan(je. India, Farther India, Southern China, Formosa. 



Shell conoid or depressed turbinate, the constrictiou narrow 

 and immediately behind the aperiure, the sutural tube arising 

 proportionately nearer to the peristome tlian in Alycceus. 



286. Dioryx amphora, Benson. 



AlycccKs aiiijjhora, Benson, A. M. N. H. ser. 2, xvii, 1856, p. 226; 



theubald, J. .A. S. B. xxvi, 1857, p. 247 : Pfeiffer, Mon. Pneum. 



Suppl. 1, 1858, p. 34; id., Novit. Conch, ser. 1, i, I860, p. 126, 



pl.35, figs. 15-17 ; Hanley & Theobald, Conch. lud. 1874, pi. 91, 



tigs. 2, 3; Theobald, Cat. Shells Brit. India, p. 1876, p. 39; 



Sowerbr, in Reeve, Conch. Icon, xx, 1877. ^l/i/caus, pi. 2, tig. 15 ; 



G. Nevill, J. A. S. B. xlvi, 1877, p. 29 ; id.. Hand List, i, 1878, 



p. 292 ; id., in Anderson, Zool. Res. Exp. ^^'. Yunnan, i, 1879» 



p. 890. 

 Alyca'us (ZUoryx) amphora, Godwin-A usteu. Land &, Freshw. Moll. 



India, ii, 1914, p. 429, pi. 153, fig. 11. 

 Dioryx amphora. Kobelt & Molleudortf, Nachr. Deuts. Malak. (^es. 



XXIX, 1897, p. 149; id.. Cat. Pneum. 1899, p. 45 ; Kobelt, Das 



Tierreich, Lief. 16, 1902, p. 336. 



Oriijinal di'scription : — "Testa anguste umbilioata, ovato- 

 globosa, exilissime costulato-striata, albido-carnea, versus apicein 



i''ig. 31. — Dioryx amphora. ( X -'.) 



acutiuscuhim rubella; spira conica ; sutui'a subprofunda ; anfract. 

 4 convexis, ultimo inhato, juxta aperturam constricto, tubulo 

 suturali longissimo prope peristoma oriente ; apertura verticali ;. 



