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Ifah. India: Uarjeeliiig, Sikkim {Trotter, StoUczIca, Mainivarimj, 

 Blanford); Blmtaii {Blanford) • Dafla Hills, Assam (Godtvin- 

 Ansteti). 



" Hah. Teinpei-ate regions of Sikkim and Eutan, in the Eastei-n 

 Jlimahiyas, from about 5000 to OOOO feet. It doubtless also 

 exists in Nipal. It is generally met with at the roots of oaks and 

 other large trees. 



" In this species, as was noticed by Mr. Benson, the lunule 

 is sometimes broken up into short oblique plaits above, and con- 

 sequently the number of palatal plicae varies. Sometimes there is 

 only the long lamellar plait above the lunule, in other specimens 

 there ai'e, besides the long one, two short plieix;." {Blanford.) 



Clausilia ion a])pears to be one of the commonest species, to 

 judge by the iiumber of specimens in collections. There are shells 

 in the British Museum, presented by Blanford in 1860, which 

 have 10 whorls —therefore with one whorl more than Blanford's 

 type — and measure 13-5x3 mm. Four specimens in the Cuming 

 collection, also of 10 whorls, attain a length of 14 mm. The 

 Beddome collection is particularly well supplied, as I have counted 

 no less than two dozen : these are from Darjeeling. The species 

 somewhat resembles C. theobaldl but it is smaller and the palatal 

 plicfe are nearer the aperture. 



273. Clausilia ceylanica, Benson. 



Clandlia cei/lanica, Benson, A. M. N. H. ser. 3, xi, 1863, p. 89 ; 



Pfeitfer, Mon. llelic. Viv. vi, 1868, p. 427 ; Nevill, Enum. Helic. 



Cevlon, 1871. p. 3 ; 1 liinlev & Theobald, Conch, ind. 1875, pi. 118, 



tig'l. 

 Clausilia (? Medora) ceylanica, Blanford, J. A. S. B. xli, 1872, 



p.201,pl. 9,lig. 4. 

 Clausilia (Phaedusa) ceijlanica, Xevill, Hand List, i, 18/8, p. 184. 

 Clausilia {Phaedusa ( Euphaedusa)) ceylanica, Boett^er, Ber. Oflfen- 



bacher Ver. Xatm-w. 1878, Mitt. p. 53 ; Pfeitfer & Clessiu, 



Nomencl. llelic. Viv. 1881 , p. 391. 

 Euphcedusa ceylanica, .Toiisseaume, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, vii, 



1894, p. 290. 



Orif/inal descrijHion : — " C. testa vix rimata, f usiformi, oblique 

 confertissime costulata, costulis nonnullis uudulatis, fuscescenti- 

 olivacea ; spira gradatim attenuata, lateribus convexiusculis, apice 

 obtusiusculo, sutura impressa ; anfractibus 8, convexiusculis, ultimo 

 ad basin rotundato ; apertuia subobliqua, pyriformi, lamellis 

 contiguis, iuferiore valde exserta, torta, plicis palatalibus 2, 

 subsequalibus, eloiigatis, columellari immersa ; peristomate con- 

 tinuo, superne soluto, undique subexpanso, reflexiusculo. 



•• Long. 12, diam. 21 mill., apert. long. 3. lat. 2 mill." {Benson.) 



J Jab. Ceylon (//. Nevill) ; Fort McDonald {La yard). 



" Found" by Mr. F. Layard at an altitude of 4500 feet in the 

 central mountain mass of Ceylon. The nearest Indian ally in 

 form is the Darjiling C. ios, from which it may at once be 



