294 CYCLOPHOBID.i:. 



counterpart of that in tlie Sikkim shell, Megalomastoma faniculatum , 

 B. The perfect smoothness of Dipl. nxlgirica, and. the continuity 

 of the internal peristome, give it a sub-generic character, yet seem 

 insufficient alone to authorize its separation from Dijjlommatina." 

 {Blanford.) 



448. Nicida nitidula, Blanford. 



Diplommatina nitidula, Blanford, Jouiu. ConchvL xvi, 1868. 



p. 334, pi. 14, fig. 3. 

 Diplojnmatiua [Nicida) nitidula, Pfeiffer, Mon. Piieum. Suppl. 3, 



1875, p. 88. 

 Diplotninatina nitidula, Ilauley & Theobald, Couch. Ind. 187(3, 



p]. 141, fig. 5. 

 Nicida nitidvla, Theobald, Cat. Shells Brit. India, 1876, p. 43 ; 



Kobelt & Mollendorff, Nachr. Deuts. Malak. Gas. xxx, 1898, 



p. 130; id., Cat. Pueum. 1899, p. 50 ; Kobelt, Das Tierreich, 



Lief. 16, 1902, p. 385. 



Original description : — " Testa subrimata, conico-ovata, glabra, 

 nitidula, subobsolete miuutissime oblique striatula, tenuis, pallido- 

 sornea. 8pira conoidea, lateribus parum convexis, apice obtuso, 

 cutura leviter impressa. Anfr. G convexinsculi, peuultimus 

 maxiuius, ultimus angustior, antice ascendens, carina mediocri 

 basali instructus, infra carinam juxta rimam parvulam valde 

 compressus. Apertura vix obliqua, circularis ; peristoma expansi- 

 usculum, breviter interruptum, subduplex vel duplex, margine 

 exteroo superne antice arcuato. 



"Long. 24, diam. l.l. Ap. diam. intus | mill." (Blanford.) 

 Hub. India : Kulputty Hill, Wynaad, 4U00 ft. (Beddon'ie). 



449. Nicida pedroiiis, Beddome. 



Diplommati)ia (Nicida) pedronis, Beddouie, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, 

 p. 443, pi. 52, fig. 8; NeviU, IlaudList, i, 1878, p. 288. 



Diphmmatina pedronis, Hanley & Theobald, Conch. Ind. 1870, 

 p. xii ; Pfeifler, Mon. Pneuni. Suppl. 3, 1876, p. 397. 



Nicida pedronis, Theobald, Cat. Shells Brit. India, 1870, Addenda, 

 n. ii ; Jousseaume, M(5m. Soc. Zool. France, vii, 1894, p. 311 ; 

 kobelt & MolleudorflF, Nachr. Deuts. Malak. Ges. xxx, 1898, 

 p. 130; id., Cat. Pneum 1899, p. 50; Kobelt, Das Tierreich, 

 Lief. 16, 1902, p. 385. 



Original description: — ''Shell subcylindfico-ovate, pron)iuently 

 rimate, thin, smooth, of a pale dull olive colour ; \\ liorls 7, convex, 

 the antepenultimate the largest, the four upper ones gradually 

 decreasing, the seventh or last whorl suddenly asceudiug and 

 touching tlie antepenultimate, inconspicuously keeled at its base ; 

 aperture oblique, subcircular, white within ; peristome continuous, 

 single, black externally, slightly reflexed and expanded : total 

 length 4- iuch [3"5 mm.]." {Beddome.) 



Hah. Ceylon : Pedrotalle, (^alle {Beddome). 



