240 CYCLOP lIOBID.i:. 



adjoin the aperture ; aperture ovate, angular above and below, 

 rounded on the inuer margin. Opercuhim pale in colour, smooth 

 in trout. 



" Major diain. 3 ; alt. axis 1*25 mm." 



Hah. India: south of Barak Eiver, Khasi Hills ; Jawai, Jaintia 

 Hills {Godwin-Austen). 



" Although this shell, in size and most of its characters, is like 

 A. muUin((josus, G.-A., of the Naga Hills, it differs materially, 

 more especially in the form of tlie aperture and in the ritlges on 

 the expanded portion of the last whorl."' (Godwin-Austen.) 



The variety referred to by Godwin-/^ usten on page 370, pi. 154,^ 

 figs. 7, 7 a, from Jawai, Jaintia Hills, appears to have a narrower 

 umbilicus, and a more depressed spire; its measurements are: 

 major diani. 2-9, alt. axis 1-3 mm. 



Var. minor, Godwin- Austen. 

 Ali/ccsKS biruf/osus, var. minor, Godwin- Austen, Land >t Fresliw. 

 Moll. India, ii, 1914, p. .370, pi. 155, fig. 9. 



Smaller than the type, measuring : major diam. 2-4, alt. axis 

 I'l mm. 



Hah. India : Garo Hills [Godwin-Austen). 



358. Alycaeus cheniielli; Godwin-Austen. 



Alycceus chennelli, Godwin-Austen, Land & Fresliw. Moll. India, 

 i, 1886, p. 192, pi. 48, figs. 1-1 c ; var. fio'. 2 ; ii, 1914, p. 387. 



Alycaeus ( Churax) chennelli, Kobelt & MollendorfT, Naclir. Deuts. 

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



Aliicneiii {Dicharax) chennelli, Kobelt, Das Tievreich, Lief. 16, 

 1902, p. 366. 



Original description : — " Shell globosely turbinate, umbilicated, 

 but very closely, as a narrovi^ slit; sculpture : smooth near apex, 

 distant costnlation developed beyond, and strongest near suture ; 

 colour white; spire conic, high, apex rounded ; sutural tube long, 

 line; whorls 4, rounded, constriction short and close to the base 

 of the sutural tube, then suddenly ex])anded, in a somewhat bell- 

 shaped form, smooth, flatly convex in front, with a few very 

 shallow indistinct wrinkles or pits ; aperture very oblique, 

 (piadrate; peristome double, rounded on the outer lower margin, 

 the columellar margin with a distinct notch ; operculum smooth 

 in front. 



" Major diam. 37 : alt. axis 2-9 mm." 



Hah. India: Piknui Naga Hills and Lhota Xaga Hills {Chennell). 



" This shell IS allied to A. notaius and damsangensis, but the 

 expandetl part of the last whorl behind tiie aperture is smoother, 

 with only an indication of wrinkling. It is more closely wound 

 than the latter, and the aperture differs from both in its squarer 

 form and angulation below. 



" Specimens from the Lhota Naga Hills (pi. 48, fig. 2) differ 

 slightly in being larger and in the expanded portion being more 



