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described, for after examining it for some time it began creeping 
with the extremity raised in the same manner; so that it is the 
occasional habit of this species, which I at first thought was an indi- 
vidual peculiarity, due to the malformation of some muscles or injury 
to the nervous system. 
AUSTENIA? sALIA, Benson. (Plate XXXVII. figs. 1, la, 1 4.) 
Vitrina salius, Bs. A. M. N. Hist. 1859, ni. p. 189; Pfr. Mon. 
Hel. vol. iv. p. 799. 
Helicarion salius (sec. C), Theob. Cat. Supp. p. 24. 
Helicarion salius, Nevill, Hand-list, p. 14. 
Austenia salia, Godwin-Austen, P. Z. 8. 1880, p. 298. 
Locality. Teria Ghat, Khasi Hills. (1. H. G.-4.). 
Surface like ground glass, with indistinct, transverse, close lines 
of growth; colour pale ochraceous ; whorls 3. 
Specimen figured :— 
Size: major diam. 9°8, minor diam. 84, alt. axis 3°D mm. 
5 0°39, z 0°33,> x59), O11 4mch, 
Largest specimen :—Size : major diam. 12-0, minor diam. 10-0 mm. 
In no specimen that I possess from the typical locality does the 
last whorl descend near the aperture, as in specimens from Panka- 
bari, near Darjiling. 
Original description: —“ Testa subgloboso-depressa, peripheria ovata, 
tenuissima, fragili, nitidissima, pellucida, fuscescenti-cornea vel pal- 
lide cornea, obsolete arcuatim striatula ; spira brevissime conoidea, 
sutura leviter impressa, marginata ; anfractibus 33, rapide accrescen- 
tibus, ultimo depressiusculo, subventricoso-rotundato, antice superne 
antrorsum arcuato ; apertura obliqua, subrotundato-lunari, peristo- 
matis margine columellari subverticaliter descendente, superne vie cal- 
loso, basali leviter arcuato. 
“Diam. major 8, minor 6, axis 4 mill.; apert. lat. 44, alt. 
43 mill. 
‘«‘ Habitat ad Teria Ghat, cum precedente. 
‘“‘T have named this little species from its habit, observed by Mr. 
Theobald, of springing several inches from the ground, like the little 
Cape Helix Tollini, Albers, recorded in a former number of this 
Journal on the authority of Mr. E. L. Layard. V. salius also occurs 
near Darjiling, where Mr. W. T. Blanford has found it sparingly, in 
company with another new species. 
“Mr. Theobald met with my large species, Vitrina gigas, at 
Cherra, on the mountains above Teria Ghat; it was not common. 
On the limestone at the same place, a solid variety of the Western- 
Himalayan shell, H. plicidens, B., was common.” 
AvsTENIA ? sALIA, Bs., var. ovata. (Plate XX XVII. figs. 2, 2a, 
2 b.) 
Locality. Pankabari, near Darjiling (coll. W. T. Blanford). 
Shell rather more globose in form than the Teria-Ghat shells, the 
