2[4 LAND AND FRESHWATER 
Shell depressedly oval, not umbilicated ; sculpture finely plicate, 
crossed by fine longitudinal striation, which is most marked near 
the apex; colour rich olive-green; spire very flatly conoid ; apex 
blunt; suture shallow; whorls 4, the last much expanded ; 
aperture ovate; peristome simple, columellar margin subvertical, not 
thickened. 
Size: maj. diam. 31, min. 23; alt. axis 9, body-whorl 14 mm. 
Animal not observed. 
A small variety of MW. flemingi (not H. stoliczkanus, Nevill, as 
named), from Damtour, near Abbottabad, I note in Mr. Theobald’s 
collection, measuring major diam, 27-5, alt. axis 10-0, of a rich 
olive-green or olive-brown colour, 
Macrocutamys cassipA, Hutton and Benson, (Plate LIV. figs. 
3, 3a.) 
Vitrina cassida, Hutt. & Bens. J. A. 8. B. vol. vii, (1838) p. 214; 
Pfr. Mon. Hel. vol. iii. p. 2; Reeve, Conch. leon. Vitrina, fig. 10 
(from Benson’s specimen); Hanley, Conch, Ind. p, 61, pl. cli. figs. 
2,3 (‘The surface is dull, and shows in the type here figured, not 
merely concentric folds, but, also, some faint and distant spiral 
striz ”’). 
Helicarion (sec. ©) cassida, Theobald, Supp. Cat. p. 24; Nevill, 
Hand-list, p. 15. 
Locality. Kashmir (coll. Theobald). 
I am not at all sure, in figuring this species from Kashmir as 
M. cassida, that it is the same in every respect as the form de- 
seribed by Hutton and Benson from near Simla; it must be very 
close; but until I can obtain specimens in spirit from the typical 
locality I cannot be certain. The large size of the aperture ot the 
shell rather points to a form like V. (? Austenia) monticola of 
Hutton, from Mussoorie. In fact until these animals are all 
hunted up in the place where they were originally obtaimed and 
described doubt will shroud any attempt at naming those from other 
parts of the Himalayas. 
Original description :—No. 1, H. cassida, Hutton. “ Testa ovato- 
depressa, pallide cornea radiatim striolata, junioris epidermide serteca, 
etate nitore orbata, anfractibus (penultima etiam intra aperturam) 
ventricosioribus ; apertura patula, rotundato-ovata ; spira convexa, 
apice exsertiuscula, nunime obtusata ; anfractibus 5, velociter crescenti- 
bus. (B.) 
‘** Greatest breadth 1 inch 2 lines. 
‘This shell has a more exserted spire than any other species 
known to the writers. This character, notwithstanding the great 
size of the aperture, coupled with the ventricose appearance of the 
penultimate whorl within the aperture, gives the shell an Helici- 
form air. It is very closely allied in habit to a species lately de- 
scribed from Almorah, but differs from it in its greater size and 
paler colour, and in the want of the polish which is observable in 
