X74 zonitidjE. 



generic relations, as no Bensonia is known from Peninsular India. 

 The following is a short description : — 



Shell perforate, depressed, dark fulvous, with a narrow chestnut 

 stripe below the periphery, striated, finely and closely decussated ; 

 protoconch with undulating transverse striation ; spire convex ; 

 whorls 4, convex above, the last angulate above the periphery, 

 convexly swollen below ; aperture obhque, roundly lunate ; peri- 

 stome thin, chestnut, with a white thickened lip inside. 



Major diam. 19|, min. 16i, height 10| mm. 

 ' This resembles B. theohaldiana, but has fewer whorls and is 

 more angulate. 



271. Bensonia convexa, Ev. (Helix) Co7icI{. Ic. 1852, pi. 127, fig. 762 ; 

 H. Sf T. C. I. 1876, pi. 86, figs. 1-4 ; Godwin- Austen, Mol. Lid. i, 

 1888, p. 252. .. _ 



? Helix monticola, Ffr. Man. Hel. i, 1848, p. 130; id. ^^u, 18/6, 

 p. 220 : ncc Hutton. 



Shell subob1:ectly perforate, depressed, horny, thin, striated, 

 minutely decussated above and below by fine, impressed, spiral, 

 close lines ; spire depressedly conoid ; Avhorls 6-6|, flatly convex, 

 the last slightly compressed externally ; aperture oblique, broadly 

 lunate ; peristome thin, with a broad white callous thickening 

 inside ; lio remains of varices except close to the mouth. 



Major diam. l^, min. 14|, height 9 mm. 



Hah. Kumaun, Nagtiba Eange, north of Mussoorie, 9000' 

 (Godwin- Austen); Simla. 



Animal light brownish green, brown near head ; tentacles 

 greenish grey; foot rather short (Godivin- Austen) . 



272, Bensonia jacquemonti, v. Ma)-t. (Naniua) Mai. Bl. xvi, 1869, 

 p 75 ; Pfr. Nov. Conch, iv, p. 48, no. 720, pi. 118 ; id. Mon. Hel. 

 vii, 1876, p. 220 ; Nev. Turk. 3Iiss., Mol. 1878, p. 18; id. Iland-l. 

 i i878, p. 49 ; {var. kurramensis) Godtvin-Austen, Mol. 2nd. ii, 

 1899, p. 115, pi. 95, figs. 1-1 i (auimal and anatomy) ; Kobelt, 

 Nanina (Xestiua), Mart. Sf Chemn. Syst. Conch.-Cab,, Nauiuidfe, 

 1901, p. 997, pi. 258, figs. 7, 9. 



Shell perforate, depressed, smooth, finely striated, white and 

 porcellanic or horny, sometimes encircled by a rufous band above 

 the periphery and inside the suture ; spire very low but couoidal ; 

 Avhorls 5i, slightly convex, increasing slowly, the last rounded 

 at the periphery, moderately convex beneath; aperture slightly 

 oblique, broadly lunate ; peristome thin, thickened inside, basal 

 ]naro-in' slightly arcuate, columellar reflected a little at the per- 

 foration. 



Major diam. 17, min. 15, height 10 mm. 



Hah. Murree {Stoliczhi) ; Salt Eauge, Punjab (Theobald). 



This is probably the species figured in the atlas to Jacquemont's 

 ' Voyage,' pi. 16, fig. 2. 



