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192. Pila layardi (Reeve). 



Pi/a lai/itrdi (Reeve), Con. Icon., Ampul, sp. 27 ; 11. & T., C. I. 



])1. 114, fij-. 4. 

 Ampullariit ylobosa, S\v., var. layardi, Reeve, Nevill, Hand List, 



pt. 2, p. 3. 



Original description : — Shell rather compressly globose, whorls 

 narrowly flatly impressed round the upper part, then rounded, 

 smooth, shining; umbilicus small, contracted; aperture ovate; 

 whitish, covered with an olive horny epidermis. 



Alt. 4S, diam. 44 mm. (taken from tig. in Con. Icon.). 



Hub. Colombo, Ceylon. 



Tar. virens, Limarclc, Hist. Anim. s. Vert, vi, 1S22, p. 179, 

 ITab.?; Nevill, Hand List, pt. 2, p. 3. 



" carination at suture obsolete." 



Hab. Kollam (Beddome). 



193. Pila mix (licere). 



I'iln nuv (Reeve), Con. Icon., Ampul, sp. 1.32; II. & T., C. 1. 

 pi. lio, tig. 1. 



Original description : — Shell oblong-conoid, solid, scarcely um- 

 bilicated, spire obtusely exserted, whorls convex, slanting and 

 obsoletely plicately wrinkled at the suture; fulvous-chestnut; 

 aperture ovate, rather small, columellar lip callously i-eflected. 



Alt. 3u, diam. 23 mm. (taken from tig. 132 a, pi. xxviii, in 

 Conch. Icon.). 



Hab. BomlDay. 



"A solid fulvous-chestnut shell of an oblong-conoid form, with 

 the columellar lip rather unusually callously reflected." 



194. Pila maura {Reeve). 



nia maura (Reeve), Con. Icon., Ampul, sp. 57. 



Original description : — Shell globose, narrowly umbilicated, spire 

 rather short, whorls a little flattened at the sutures, then rounded, 

 smooth ; dark olive ; aperture ovate, lip stained within with 

 purple-black. 



Alt. 45, diam. 41 mm. (taken from fig. in Conch. Icon.). 



Hab. Assam (Conch. Ind.). 



"Of a particularly globose form, the lip being characteristically 

 stained within with purple or chestiuit-black." 



195. Pila theobaldi {Haidnj). 



Pila theobaldi (ILmley), H. & T.. C. I. pi. llo, f^g. 2 (as 



Ampullar in). 

 Ampullaria maura, Reeve, var. theobaldi, Ilanley, Nevill, Cat. Moll., 



Fdsc. E, p. (3. 



Figui'ed as above, but not described, and as no specimen is 



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