196 HELICID.E. 



The most depressed of all the Indian forms of OaneseJIa, some- 

 what resembling the Siamese G. rostrella. The peripheral baud is 

 sometimes absent. A slightly more elongated variety is figured in 

 Conch. Ind. (pi. 53, figs. 3, 4). 



Some shells labelled H. iiilidion, in the Theobald collection, 

 British Museum, proved upon examination to pertain to the 

 present species. One of these, measuring 15 : 13 : 9-25 mm., has 

 the peripheral band on the pinched keel, but the others are without 

 the band ; they are all more depressed than typical scenoma, while 

 the umbilicus is somewhat narrower. 



109. Gauesella capitium, Benson. 



Helix capitimn, Benson, A. M. X. II. ser. 2, ii, 1848, p. 160 ; 



Iveeve, Conch. Icon, vii, 1852, pi. 125, tig. 749 ; Pfeiifer, Couch.- 



Cab., Helix, iii, 1854, p. 291, pi. 125, ligs. 3, 4; Ilanley & 



Theobald, Conch. Ind. 1870, pi. 14, tig-. 5 ; Morelet, Ser. Conch. 



iv, 1875, p. 254. 

 Nanina {IVvchomorpJia) cajntium, yonMartens, Die lleliceen, ed. 2, 



1860, p. 61. 

 Helix (Planispira) capitium, Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 78. 

 Helix (Ganesella) ccqntium, Nevill in Anderson, Zool. lies. Two 



Exped. West. Yunnan, i, 1878, p. 880. 

 Trochomorpha (Nigritella) capitium, PfeifFer & Clessin, Nomencl. 



Helic. Viv. 1881, p. 81. 

 Helix (Patula (Trochomoip/ia)) capitium, Trvon, Man. Conch. 



ser. 2, iii, 1887, p. 74, pi. 14, tig. t)'J. 

 Trochomorp/in capitium, Morelet, Journ. Conehyl. xxxvii, 1889, 



p. 125; P. Fischer, Bull. Soc. Hist. Xat. Autun, iv, 1891, 



p. 108. 

 Ganesella capitium, Pilsbry, Man. Conch, ser. 2, ix, 1894, p. 170, 



pi. 55, fig. 18 ; Blanford, Proc. Malac. Soc. Loudon, v, 1903, 



p. 278. 

 Eulota {Ganesella) hariola, subsp. carinella, Molleudorlt', Nachr. 



Blatt I). Malak. Ges. xxxiv, 1902, p. 158. 



Orl(/inaI description: — "Testa perforata, globoso-conica, sub- 

 trochiformi, laevigata, absque nitore,rufescente cornea, subdiaphana, 

 opaciter albido-laciniato-strigataet marmorata ; spira couica, apice 

 obtuso; anfractibus 5| convexiiisculis, ultimo carina filiformi 

 cincto, basi convexa ; sutura impressa, marginata ; apertura 

 rotuudato-tetragona ; peristomate recto, supra expansiusculo, infra 

 subreflexo ; margine columeilari late reflexo perforationem semi- 

 tegente." (Benson.) 



Diam. maj. 14, min. 13, axis 11 mm. 



Hcd). India : Sikrigali, Behar {Boys). Upper Burma : Ava 

 (Blanford), Kabyuet and Kalawat (Anderson). Siam (Bocourt, 

 Pavie, Dah/, Itoehelcn, Fruhstorfer). Cambodia (Moidwt, specimens 

 in Cuming Coll. Brit. Mus.). 



A brightly coloured species, the dark brown cuticle being 

 irregularly covered by flammulated streaks of opaque creamy white. 



