ALYC.TUS. 



412. Alycaeus biirroiensis, Goilwut-Ansten. 



Alifrceus burroieiisis, G(idwin-Au3ten,LancI & Fresliw. Moll. India, 

 ■^ii, 1914, p. 3o4, pi. 141, figs. 6, 6rt. 



Original description:— ''Shell globosely conical, umbilication 

 narroxv ; sculpture next sutural tube, fine close costulation, 

 stronger and distant on rest of the whorls, not defined on the 

 apicaf; colour bleached; spire low; suture impressed, the tube 

 short; whorls 4, the last between sutural tube and aperture 

 crossed by two ridges, the anterior being small and indistinct ; 

 aperture quadrate, oblique ; peristome double, narrow, roundly 

 angulate on outer margin, canaliculate below; columellar margin 

 n(arly vertical. 



" Major diam. 2-6 ; alt. axis 1-75 mm." (Godwin- Austen.) 



Hah. India : Burroi Gorge, Dafla Hills {Godwin- Austen). 



A globose form with a curious augnlate aperture. 



413. Alycaeus constrictus, Benson. 



Cyd'jstoma condrldum, Benson, A. M. X. II. ser. 2, viii, 1851, 

 p. 188; X, 18-52, p. 272; PfeifEer. Conch.-Cab., Cyclostomaceen, 

 1854, p. 379, pi. 49, tips. 24, 25. 

 Alifcceus constrictus, Pteitfev, Zeits. Malak. viii, 1851, p. 147 ; id., 

 Cat. Phaueropn. Brit. Mus. 1852, p. 85; id.. Men. Pneum. 

 1852, p. 120 ; Adams, Gen. Rec. Moll, ii, 1855, p. 278 ; Theo- 

 bald, J. A. S. B. xxvii, 1858, p. 322 ; Benson, A. M. X. II. ser. 3, 

 iii. 1859, p. 181, var. minor; Ilauley & Tlieohald, Cjnch. Ind. 

 1874, ])1. 95, lig-s. 1,4; Theobald, Cat. Shells Brit. India, 1876, 

 p. 39; Sowerby, in Ileeve, Conch. Icon, xx, 1^77 , Ahjcmis, pi. 5, 

 fig. 41 ; Xevill", Hand List, i, 1878, p. 294. 

 Ali/cceiis {Alitccem) coistrictus, Ben<on, A. M. X. H. ser. 3, iii, 



1859, p. 170 ; Kobelt, Das Tierreich, Lief. 16, 1902, p. 343. 

 Alycaeus (Orthali/caeus) constrictus, Kobelt & M511endorff, X'achr. 

 Deuts. Malak. Ges. xxix, 1897, p. 149; id., Cat. Pneum. 1899, 

 p. 45. 

 Ah/ccens (Ci/cloryx) constrictus, Godwin- Au?ten, Land & Freshw, 

 Moll. India, ii, 1914, p. 347, pi. 147, figs. 4, 4rt ; p. 348, pi. 154, 

 figs. 1, 1 a. 

 Orhjinal description : — '• Testa perforata, ovato-conica, glabra, 

 costis angustis distantibus munita, translucente, albida vel ruf ula ; 

 spira elongato-conica, apice obtuso, sutura valde impressa ; 

 aufractibus"4 rotundatis, superioribus glabris, seqnentibus remote 

 costulatis, ultimo mox confertissime costulato-striata, pone aper- 

 turam strangulato, anticeque late constricto; apertura circulari, 

 verticali, g longitudinis sequante, peristomate uudique reflexo ; 

 operculo testaceo, inultispirato, sutura inconspicua. 

 " Uiam. 2, alt. 3.} mill.'' 



Uah. Sikliim : Darjeeliug {Stoliczlca, Mainwarinrj). 



•'This shell has apparently an affinity with the PhiUppine 



C. minus of Sowerby, but differs in its more tapering form, smaller 



size, perforation, diverse sculpture, and in the strangulation of the 



last whorl behind the aperture, in which feature it exhibits an 



