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&e. The sole of the foot is not divided into a central area and 
lateral areas. 
The respiratory and anal orifices are situated rather far back near 
the left neck-lobe. 
Original description :—‘ Testa sinistrorsa, anguste umbilicata, de- 
pressa, sublenticularis, fulvo-cornea, tenuis, oblique striata ; spira 
parum elevata, conoido-convexa ; apice perobtuso; sutura vie im- 
pressa. Anfr. 44, convewiusculi, ultimus magnus, acute carinatus, 
carina antice obtusiore, subtus tumidiore, nitidula, Apertura obliqua 
subsecurifornus ; peristoma tenue, rectum, margine columellari sub- 
verticali, reflexo. 
“ Diam, maj. 25, min. 21,axis 14mm. Apertura 13 mm. longa, 
11 lata. 
“* Hub. South Canara (Beddome). 
‘his species approaches JV, interrupta, Bs. (NV. himalayana, ess, 
but has the sculpture finer and not decussated. I have only seen two 
specimens, one of which is quite young, and it is possible that the 
one above described is also immature, but there appears no doubt 
that the form is undescribed. The specimen having been returned 
to Major Beddome, I am unable to figure it at present.” 
The same author writes as follows, l.c. p. 185 :—‘ This shell 
was originally described from an immature specimen, and the same 
was figured in the ‘ Conchologia Indica.’ 
nS Subsequently Col. Beddome obtained an adult from the same 
locality, South Canara. Of this example a figure is not given. 
The species only differs in sculpture from A. interrupta, which is 
found in various parts of Bengal and Orissa, and has been procured 
by Col. Beddome as far south as the Golcondah range of hills in 
Vizagapatam. The two forms replace each other in the eastern 
and western parts of the Indian peninsula, precisely as do their 
allies A, levipes and A. laidlayana.” 
ARYOPHANTA ? RETRORSA, A. A. Gould. 
Helix retrorsa, Gd. Description of Land-shells from the Province 
of Tavoy, in British Burma, Boston J. Nat. Hist. vol. iv. (Jan. 
1844) p. 455, pl. xxiv. fig. 5 (an excellent figure); Pfr. Mon. Hel. 
vol. i. p. 76; Conch. Ind. p. 13, pl. xxv. fig. 6 (viewed from 
behind). 
Hemiplecta (sec. E) retrorsa, Theob. Supp. Cat. p. 22, from Tenas- 
serim. 
Nanina (Hemiplecta) retrorsa, Nevill, Hand-list, p. 19, from 
Moulmain and Mergui. 
Original description :—* Testa orbiculata, sinistrorsa, utrinque 
convexa, pallide castanea, arcte umbilicata ; anfr. 5, lineis longitudi- 
nalibus et volventibus minute rugosis, ultimo carinato, apertura ro- 
tundata, labro acuto. 
“Shell large, sinistral, orbicular, about equally convex above and 
below, but most rounded below; of a pale chestnut or fawn-colour 
