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near the angle and (2) a large tubercular subbifid tooth on the 

 right margin, both runniug into the whorl ; also two columellar 

 tubercular teeth, the larger just inside the lip, the smaller internal, 

 and two small basal teeth right and left ; peristome white, ex- 

 panded, sharply curved back at the angle. 



Fig. 14. — Ennca planguncida f, aperture V"- 



Length 3^, breadth 14,, length of aperture 1^ mm. 



Hah. Peninsula of India ; Orissa (Tlieohald) ; Golconda Hills, 

 near Vizagapatam and liusellcoonda (Beddome) ; Nerbudda Valley, 

 near Hashungabad. 



A smaller variety, with 5| whorls, 3 mm. long, was obtained by 

 Col. Beddome from hills near Kurnool. This is the form figured 

 in the Conchol. Ind. pi. 160, fig. 3. I have seen a specimen of what 

 is ]irobably a variety from Ceylon. The fine oblique costiilatiou 

 and sutural crenulation often disappear. 



II. Umbilicated. 



*50. Ennea moercMana, Nev. (Roepstorf MS.) J. A. S. B. 1, 1881, 

 p. 130 ; Godwin-Austen, P. Z. S. 1895, pp. 443, 450. 



Shell deeply but narrowly umbilicated, cylindrically ovate, 

 subvertically rather distantly ribbed, white, solid ; apex obtusely 

 conoidal; whorls 6|, convex, fourth and fifth broadest, last rounded 

 at base, ascending in front, partly covering umbilicus ; aperture 



ig. 15. — Ennea moerchiana \, and view of base. 



vertical, subaxial, rounded, parietal fold vertical, well developed, 

 another strong but less prominent fold within right margin, no 

 other teeth ; peristome broadly reflected, deeply sinuate above the 

 dextral fold. 



Length 4|, breadth 2| mm. 



Hah. Centre of Great Nicobar. 



