;J62 ACHATINIU.I^. 



jBquaute, basi rotundato ; apertura verticali, semiovali ; perist. 

 recto, margine columellari subverticali, superne dilatato, patente, 



" Long. 5, diam. 2 mill." {H. Adams.) 



Hah. Ceylon ; Matelle {F. La<jard). 



Fig. 120. — Opeai^? ■pusiUus. (Enlarged.) 

 (From P. Z. S.) 



" Peculiar from being, at least so far as I know, the only sinistral 

 land-shell that has yet been met with in the island." (//. Adams.) 



Eeferred witli some doubt to Opeas ; it certainly has nothing to 

 do witii Ena. It may possibly be a monstrosity. I give a copy 

 of Adams's figure. 



Genus PEOSOPEAS, Mdrch. 



Proso2)eas, Morch, Jouru. Concliyl. 1876, p. 358, as section oi Bulimus 

 for B. roepstorji, Morcli, and li. achates, Morch (no description) ; 

 Pilsbry, Man. Couch, ser. 2, xviii, 1906, p. 14. 



Type, Bulimus roepstorffi, Morch. 



Rancje. Farther India, including Malay Peninsula, Andaman 

 and Xicobar Islands, China, Malay Archipelago, Philippine 

 Islands. 



" Shell Stenogyi'oid, of moderate or large size, imperforate or 

 nearly so, with rather small, semiglobose apex, the first two whorls 

 typically smooth (but i-ibbed in the s. g. Faropeas), later whorls 

 verj^ densdy sculptured ivith fine oblique strice ivhich are arched 

 funuard above and retracted to the suture. Aperture ovate ; colu- 

 mella straight or concave, continuous with the basal margin below, 

 slightly or not folded above, with a reflexed, aduate margin. 

 Axis slender, straight or nearly so. Reproduction by globular, 

 calcareous-shelled eggs, as in Opeas. 



326. Prosopeas hebes, Blanford. 



>Sjjira.(is Jie/ws, JHanford, J. A. S. B. xxx, 1861, p. 361, pi. 1, 



fig. 15 ; Pfeitier, Mon. Ilelic. Viv. vi, 1868, p. I'JO ; Ilanley & 



Theobald, Conch. lud. 1874, pi. 79, fig. 10. 

 Steno(/yra (Opeas) hebes, Nevill, Fland List, i, 1878, p. 166. 

 Stenoyi/ra (Spiralis {Fusjnra.ris}) Jiebes, Pfeifter & Clessin,Nomencl. 



IleHc. Viv. 1881, p. 323. 

 Prosopeas 7iebes, Pilsbrv, Man. Conch, s^er. 2, xviii, 1906, p. 32, 



pi. 12, %. 6. 



Orlyiaal description : — "Testa i mperforata, turrita, cornea, rugoso- 



