EUPLECTA. 05 



Radula with the lateral teeth evenly bicuspid ; formula : 

 48 . 1 . 14 . 1 . U . 1 . 48 

 63 . 1 . 63 



Although the shell is so very different to typical species of the 

 genus, both this raduhi with the generative organs are conformable, 

 and not with the same characters of Anophanta. I therefore 

 have to transfer it from where Blanford placed it to its present 

 position in Ev2ilecta.'\ 



C. Globosely conoid or depressed, with rounded periphery. 



98. Euplecta suhopaca, Pfr. (Helix) P. Z. S. 18r,3, p. 1^5 ; id. Man. 

 Ilel. iv, IS59, p. T).") ;'«7. t. c. vii, 187(5, p. 118. 

 Helix corylus, Rv. Conch. Ic. Helix, no. 1439, pi, 204 : H. S,- T. C. I. 

 187(>, pi. 150, tig. 3. 



Shell subobtectly perforate, convexly depressed, solid, rufous 

 horny (varying from yellowish white to pale chestnut), having a 

 silky lustre and line arcuate costulation above, smooth, polished, 

 and radiately striated beneath ; spire low, convex to conoid, suture 

 scarcely impressed ; whorls 6, closely wound, flatly convex above. 



Fig. 35. — Euplecta subopaca. 



the last broader, rounded at the periphery, convex below; aper- 

 ture oblique, lunate ; peristome thin, basal mai'giu straight when 

 looked at from beneath, columellar oblique, regularly curved, 

 slightly expanded, more broadly at the perforation. 



Major diam. 15, min. 13.4, axis 9 mm. 



Bab. Higher Hills of S~outh-western Ceylon ; Nuwara Eliva 

 (G. Nevill); Pedro Talle Galle, 6000' (//. F. B.), Gampala 

 (//. Nevill). 



99. Euplecta partita, Pfr. (Helix) P. Z. S. 18o3, p. 12-5; id. (Helix) 



Mon. Hel iv, 1859, p. 55; id. t. c. vii, 1876, pp. 118, 532; 



H. L^ T. (HeUx) C. I. 1876, pi. 85, figs. 5, 6; Godwin-Amten, 



Mol. Ind. ii, 1890, p. 98, pi. 87, tigs. 1-1 e (anatomy). 



Helix marcida, Bs. {nee Shuttleworih) A. M. N. 11. (2) xii, 1853, 



p. 92. 

 Helix subconoidea, Pfr. P. Z. S. 1854, p. 51 ; id. Mon. Hel. iv, 

 1859, p. 56 ; id. t. c. vii, 1876, pp. 118, 532 ; H. ^- T. C. /. 1876, 

 p. 36, pi. 85, figs. 7, 10. 



Sliell subobtectly perforate, convexly depressed, rather thin, 

 isabelline to yellowish horny, polished, strongly but rather irregu- 

 larly transversely rugosely striated above, smooth with radiating 



