498 



ja>'^ellid.t;. 



483. Eyalimax andamaiiica, Godxvin-Atisten. 



Hlialimax (Jarava) andamanica. Godwia-Austen, Moll. India, i, 

 1882, p. 57, pi. 11, tigs. 1-4; Cockerell, A. M. N. II. ser. 0, vi, 

 1890, p. 389 ; ibid., The Conchologist, ii, 1893, p. 195. 



Original description : — " The animal is thus describsd by my 

 hrotlier, Mr. Harold Godwin-Austen, who sent me four specimens. 

 Pale watery green, yellower on the mantle, with alternate sti-i|)es 

 of torquoise-blue and chocolate on the upper part of the neck. 

 Those darker Hues I suspect are the retractor muscles of the eye- 

 tentacles ; the auimal when living would appeur to have a much 



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Fii;;. 163. — Hyalhnax avciamo/ica. 

 a, shell (iiJit. size). A, frbell (enlarged). (\ animal. 

 (Copied from Moll. India.) 



flattened wide foot, thin, and spre.iding at the margin, for in the 

 s|nrit-specimen it is much wrinkled; the extremity of thf foot is 

 l)ointed, with no mucous gland. There is no defined palliul 

 margin to the foot; distinct grooves run at intervals from tlie 

 dorsal edge of the mantle to the side of the foot: and two of 

 the specimens show a few distinct dark spots on the upper surface 

 of the extremity of the foot. An indistinct median area on the 

 sole of the foot. Eye -tentacles apparently stout. I am in doubt 

 regarding the oral tentacles ; and if present, they are probably 

 small. The mantle is continuous over the shell, and covered with 



