236 CXCLOPHORTD.i:. 



■corneo-fusco, multispirato, anfractuuui marginibus scabre elevatis, 

 extus profunde coneavo, intus couvexiusc-ulo, iiitidissimo, sulco 

 marginato. uuibone central! papillari muiiito. 



"Diam. major 10, minor 8, axis 5 mill." 



Hah. Burma : Akowtong (Theohald) ; Bassein (Blan/ord) ; 

 Tbyet Myo (Hungerford); Arakan {'^ Kurz). 



"The scabrous cancellation oE the inflated part onh/ of last 

 whorl is an unusual feature, no trace of the spiral rugae appearing 

 elsewhere on the whorls. 



"The origin of the sutural tube is about 4 millimetres from the 

 aperture.'" (Benson.) 



Subgenus DICHARAX, Kobelt 4' Jldllendorf. 



Charax (non Eisso, 1826), Benson, A. M. X. H. ser. 3, iii, 1859, p. 177 

 (as section of Ali/C(Pus) ; Pfeiffer, Mon. Pneum. Suppl. '2, 1865, 

 p. 48 : Fischer, Man. Conchyl. 1885, p. 743; Kobelt & Mollendorff, 

 Nachv. iJeuts. 31alak. Ges. xxix, 1897, p. 152 (as subgenus) ; id.. 

 Oat. Pneum. 1899, p. 48. 



Dic/iara.v, Kobelt & Mollendorff, Xacbr. Deuts. Malak. Ges. xxxii, 

 1900, p. 180 : Kobelt, Das Tien-eich, Lief. 16, 1902, p. 364. 



Type, A. Tiehes, Benson. 



Ranrje. India, Burma, Farther India, Southern China, Malaysia. 

 Constriction broad, contiguous to the aperture, from which it is 

 ■separated bv a ridge, which is hollow internally. 



351. Alycffius armillatus, JBenson. 



Alycaus annillatus, Benson, A. M. X. II. ser. 2, xvii, 1856, p. 227 ; 



ibeobald, J. A. S. B. xxvi, 1857, p. 247 ; Pfeitter, Mon. Pneum. 



Suppl. 1, 1856, p. 37 : Blanford, A. M. N. H. ser. 3, xiii, 1864, 



p. 458; id., J. A. S. B. xxxiv, 1865, p. 98; Hanley & Tneobald, 



Concb. Ind. 1874, pi. 93, fig. 10; Theobald, Cat. Shells Brit. 



India, 1876, p. 39 ; Sowerby, in Reeve, Concb. Icon, xx, 1877, 



Alycmis, pi. 5, fig. 38: Sevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 293; 



Godwin-Austen, Land lS: Fresbw. Moll. India, ii, 1914, p. 406, 



pi 151, tigs. 3, 3«. 

 Ali/caeits {(Jharax) armiUatus, Kobelt & Mollendorff, Nacbr. Deuts. 



Malak. Ges. xxix, 1897, p. 152 ; id.. Cat. Pneum. 1899, p. 48. 

 Alycaeus {Bichara.v) armilluUts, Kobelt. Das Tierreicb. Lief. 16, 



1902, p. 365. 



Original description : — " Testa umbilicata, depresso-turbinata, 

 costulata; spira conoidea, sutura iiupressa, apice obtuso; anfrac- 

 tibus 3^ convexis, ultimo ad latus iuflato, confertius costulato, 

 turn constricto, antice tumido, laeviori, tubulo suturali brevi, ab 

 apertura remoto, munito ; apertura obliqua circulari, peristomate 

 duplici, iuterno \alde porrecto, continuo, margine simplioi, extus 

 striato, exteriori ex|)aaso, reflexiusculo; umbiHco subaperto. 

 Operculo ...."? 



••Diam. major 2, minor 1|, axis 1^ mill." 



Hah. Burma: Th\k^t ^lyo {Theohald). 



