CATHAICA. 209 



Helix {Helicella {Dorcasia)) phceozona, Try on, Man. Conch, ser. 2, 



iii, 1887, p. 205, pi. 46, figs. 25, 2(5. 

 Helix {Eulota) phaeozona, Kobelt, Rossmassler's Iconogr., Neue 



Folge, vi, 1893, p. 75, pi. 1(59, fig. 1087. 

 Eulota (Eulota) phceozona, Pilsbry, Man. Conch, ser. 2, ix, 1895, 



p. 204. 

 Helicella {Theba) phceozona, ibid., op. cit.. 1895, p. 266. 

 Cathaica phceozona, Mollendortf, Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. Sci. 



St. Petersburg, iv, 1899, p. 126. 

 Helix phceozona, Wiegmann, Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. Sci. 



St. Petersburg, v, 1900, p. 131 (anatomy). 



Original description : — " Testa anguste umbilicata, conoiclea, 

 semiglobosa, ruditer striata, lineis spiralibus subtilissimis confertis, 

 alba, fascia unica latiuscula, castanea, peripherica ; spira conoidea ; 

 anfractus 5|, convexiiisculi, ultimas basi convexus, antice vix 

 descendens ; apei'tura parum obliqua, lunato-rotuiulata ; peristoma 

 leviter iucrassatum, margine supero recto, basali patulo, columellari 

 dilatato patente." {Mar-tens.) 



Diain. maj. 14-17, min. 11-5-14-5, alt. 8-14'5, apert. lat. 7-8-5, 

 alt. 6*5-7 mm. 



Hah. Turkistan (FedtscJienl-o, Przeivahlci, StoUczka). India : 

 Hunza, Kashmir (Comvay). 



Five specimens — of which only two are adult — collected at 

 Hunza, Kashmir, and presented to the British Museum in 1893 

 by Mr. "W. M. Conway, I refer to von Martens's species. They 

 are smaller and more depressed than the shells figured by von 

 Martens and Nevill, measuring 14 : 11-5 : 8*5 mm. respectivelv, 

 but both authors state that the species varies considerably in this 

 respect, the latter recording a depressed variety from Pasrobat, 

 west of Yai'kand, measuring : diam. IG, alt. 14'5 mm. 



183. Cathaica bactriana, Hutton. 

 Var. burmanica, var. nov. 



Heliv bactriana, Hutton, J. A. S. B. xviii, 1849, p. 651 ; Reeve, 



Conch. Icon, vii, 1854, pi. 195, fig. 1376; Hanley & Theobald, 



Conch. Ind. 1875, pi. 130, tigs. 1, 4. 

 Helix (Fruticicola) bactriana, Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 93. 

 Helix (Helicella (Dorcasia)) bactriana, Tryon, Man. Couch, ser. 2, 



iii, 1887, p. 212, pi. 49, figs. 13, 14. 

 Eulota (Eulota) bactriana, Pilsbry, Man. Conch.' ser. 2, ix, 1895, 



p. 204. 



Original description: — "Animal straw coloured, with the superior 

 tentacula very long and black ; shell carried obliquely horizontal ; 

 foot short and rather tapering posteriorly. 



" Shell fuscous or pale earthy brown, but varying to reddish 

 brown, and in some to sandy brown ; in living specimens dotted 

 over with darker spots or blotches from the animal being apparent 

 through it ; subglobose ; spire obtuse, scarcely exserted ; whorls 6 ; 

 aperture ovate-lunate, oblique; whorls obliquely and finely wrinkled 



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