264 CYCLOPHOKID^. 



393. Alycaeus pachitaensis, Godwin- Austen. 



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



i, 1886, p. 190, pi. 48, figs. 5-5 c ; ii, 1914, p. 359. 

 Alifcaens {Char ax) pachitaensis, Kobelt & MoUendoiff, Naclir. 



JJeuts. Malak. Ges. xxx, 1898, p. 129 ; id.. Cat. Pueum. 1899, 



p. 49. 

 Alycaeus (Dicha)'ax) pachitaensis, IvoLelt, Das Tierreicb, Lief. 16, 



1902, p. 374. 



Original description : — " Shell depressedly turbinate, openly 

 umbilieated, small ; sculpture : apical whoi'ls quite smooth, some 

 distinct distant costulation on the posterior side of the last whorl, 

 succeeded by very fine and close on the swollen portion of the 

 same; colour dull whitish ochre; spire subconoid, apex blunt; 

 suture impressed, the tube short ; whorls 4, the last swollen, the 

 constriction close to the sutural tube, slightl}^ enlarging again 

 midway between it and the peristome, and this portion quite 

 smooth ; aperture oblique, ovate, augular above and below ; peri- 

 stome double, thickened, with a well-defined notch below, columellar 

 .uargin concave; operculum multispiral, horny, brown. 



"Major diam. 3-2, alt. axis 2'6 mm." 



Mab. India : Pachita Village (Camp No. 7 of the Expeditionary 

 Force, 1874-75), Dafla Hills, Assam (Godivin-Austen). 



" This shell finds its nearest ally in A. gemmula, Bs., of the 

 Darjiling side, but the distinct ridge next the constriction is 

 reduced to a mere even swelling of the whorl, and the peristome 

 and form of aperture differ; it is also larger." (Godwin- Austen.) 



394. Alycaeus peilei, Preston. 



Alyc(eus {Charax) peilei, Preston, Proc. Malac. See. xi, 1914, p. 22, 



text-fig. 

 Alycceus peilei, Godwin-Austen, Land & f reshw. Moll. India, ii. 



1914, p. 397. 



Original description : — " Shell irregularly discoidal, moderately 

 depressed, white ; whorls 4, the last gibbous, thin, strongly stran- 

 gulated, and again becoming gibbous just behind the labrum, 

 sculptured with fine, somewhat distant, transverse, arcuate striae, 

 which become closely crowded on tlie last whorl ; suture rather 

 deeply impressed; tube about 3 mm. in length; umbilicus rather 

 widely ovate, deep ; columella obliquely curved ; labrum con- 

 tinuous, double above, treble below, erect, sinuous, having two 

 jiotches, one broad in front, the other narrower above ; aperture 

 irregularly sub-circular. 



"Alt. 4, diam. niaj. 6*5, min. 5'o mm. Aperture: alt. 1"5, 

 diam. 1*75 mm." (Preston.) 



Hah. India : Naga Hills. 



395. Alycjeus plectochilus, Benson. 



All/cams plectocheilns, Benson, A. M. N. H. ser. 3, iii, 1859, p. 180 ; 

 Pfeiffer, Men. Suppl. 2, 1865, p. 53 ; Hanley & TJieobald, 



