ALYC.EUS. 259 



"Diam. inaj. specim. niaxirai 3o, minor 3, alt. 2*7 mm." 



Hab. Burma : Nattoung, AVest Frome {Theobald) ; Pegu (Kurz). 



" The peculiarly formed aperture with the lower canal and its 



internal plication on the outer lip readily distinguish this species 



from A. polygona, which besides differs by more rounded and 



higher whorls." (Theobald ej- Sloliczl-a.) 



383. Alycaeus lectus, Godwin-Austen. 



Ali/cceus, u. sp., Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 294, no. 48. 

 Ab/cmis lectus, Godwin-Austen, Laud & Freshw. Moll. India, ii, 

 1914, p. 340, pi. 13G, tigs. 5, 5 a, o h. 



Original description : — " Shell conoid, ratlier solid ; sculpture 

 very much obliterated, fine distant costulation, some fine and close 

 behind the sutural tube, which is rather short, 0'09 mm, ; colour 

 (an old shell, much worn); spire depressedly conic, apex blunt; 

 suture impressed ; whorls 4, increasing regularly, constriction 

 very narrow, the last swelling very slightly, and distance to the 

 aperture very short, only 1 mm., angulate below next the 

 umbilical region ; aperture circular, oblique ; peristome double, 

 thickened. 



"Major diam. ;)-3 ; alt. axis 1*8 mm." {Godwin- Austen.) 



Hah. India : Chaukkalan, near Darjeeliug {Stoliczlca). 



Allied to A. leuticidus, but has distinctive characters. 



384. AlyccBus lenticulus, Godwin- Austen. 



Aliic(cus, n. sp., Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 294, nos, 48, 



49. 

 Ah/caius lenticulus, Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. B. xliii, part 2,1874 



p. 147 ; id., Laud & Freshw. Moll. India, ii, 1914, p. 340, pi. 136* 



tigs. 2, 2 fi, 4, 4 «, 4 6. 



Origincd description : — " Shell conoid, moderately umbilicated. 

 globosely conoid ; sculpture not well seen, fine costulation near 

 sutural tube, which is rather short, only 0'075 mm. long; colour 

 bleached ; spire conic, rather high, apex blunt ; suture rather 

 shallow ; whorls 4, very evenly increasing, the constriction slight, 

 short, then swelling gradually towards the aperture ; aperture 

 very oblique, ovate, straight on outer nnirgin, rounded on the 

 columellar side, angular above ; peristome double, very slightly 

 thickened. 



" Major diam. 3*4; alt. axis 1*4 mm." 



Hab. India: Darjeeling (Stoliczlca); llungun A'alley, Sikhim 

 (Stoliczka, Mainwaring); Kissom Peak, Western Bhutan Hills. 



" . . . . It is very similar to A. tJieohaldi, Bs., from the Kliasi 

 Hills, but is smaller with a more expanded aperture; peristome 

 less thickened, and the sculpture appears to have been very fine. 



" No. 49 of Nevill's Hand List, p. 294, 1 consider 



A. lenticidus, three are adult shells, of which I figure one (pi. 136, 



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