304 CYCLOl'HOElD^. 



Hah. India : Cherra Poonje and Maotherichaii, Kliasi Hills 

 {Godivin-Austen) ; banks of Dikraiig Eiver, Datia Hills, lai-ge var. 

 (Gochviii- Austen). 



"I some years ago received a specimen of this species from 

 Mr. Tiieubald as D. jjolypleuris, Bens. On comparing the series 

 of Dijjloiinnatince collected bv Captain Godwm-Austen with 

 Mr. Ben?^on's description, it is evident that the type of tliat 

 species belonged to a different form, found abundantly by Captain 

 Godwin-Austen with the present species on the Maotherichaza 

 ridge, part of tlie northern scarp of the Khasi Hills, and dis- 

 tinguished from the present form by its much stronger sculpture, 

 less conical spire, deeper suture, and rounder mouth. It is a 

 smaller form. Mr. Theobald's type specimens of D. ■polypleuris 

 were from Nanclai, also on the northern portion of the Khasi 

 plateau. D. ausieni varies considerably in the sculpture of the 

 lower whorls, which are in most specimens quite smooth. One 

 individual sent is considerably more tumid than the type, but 

 presents no other difference of importance." (Blanford.) 



463. Diplommatina blanfordiana, Benson. 



Uililiiinmatina bl<infordiana, Benson, A. M. N. H. ser. 3, v, 1860, 

 p. 460; Pfeitler, iNlon. i'lieum. Suppl. 2, 1865, p. 9; Godwiu- 

 Austen, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, 1868, p. 83, pi. 1, figs. 8, 8 « ; 

 Theobald, Cat. Shells Brit. India, 1876, p. 41 ; Godwin-Austen, 

 Land & Freshw. Moll. India, i, 1886, p. 169, pi. 49, tigs. 10, lOfi. 



Diplommatina blanfordij Hauley & I'heobald, Concli. lud. 187.5, 

 p. 49, pi. 119, figs. 5, 6; Neviil, Ilaud List, i, 1878, p. 287. 



Diplommatina (EudijAommatiyin) blanfordiana, Kobelt & 

 MiiUendorff, Nachr. JJeuts. Malak. Ges. xxx, 1897, p. 135; id., 

 Cat. Pueum. 1899, p. 55. 



Diplommatina (Diplotiimatina) blanjordiana, Kobelt, Das Tierreicli, 

 Liet. 16, 1902, p. 426. 



Original description : — " Testa dextrorsa, foveato-rimato, ovato- 

 acuminata, confertim arcuato-costulata, albida, spira ovato-pyra- 

 midata, superne attenuata, apice acutiusculo, sutura impressa ; 

 anfractibus 74 convexis, antepenultimo majusculo tumido, ultimo 

 antice ascend~ente ; apertura subverticali, late auriculari, plica 

 columellari valida nutante munita, peristomate expanso, extus 

 varice retrolicta remotiuscula valida aucto, infra ad sinistram sub- 

 angulato, marginibus callo parietali crasso expanso appresso 

 junctis, columellari leviter sinuato. Operc. — ? 



"Long. 4J, diam. 2\ mill." 



Hah. India : Darjeeliug {Blanford, Stoliczka, Maimvaring) ; 

 Western Bhutan Hills {liohert). 



"Independently of its smaller size and stronger costulation, 

 this shell is distinguished from D. pacliychnlus by its foveate 

 rimation behind the thin columellar lip, and by the retrolict 

 variciform second peristome, M'hich is remote in its course, on the 

 rio'ht side, from the thin actual peristome, but joins it below tlie 

 umbilical cavity. In D. pachycheilus the peristome is thickened 

 and bifurcate at the insertion of the outer lip, and there is no 



