MOLLUSCA OF INDIA, PONG 
the Aumaon shell. It equals in magnitude the Sylhet ‘ Vitrina 
gigas, from which singular macrostomatous species it altogether 
differs in form. (B.) i 
“ At Simla it is not uncommon, during the rains or even after 
heavy showers at other scasons, creeping out from the holes of 
stone walls and the crevices of rocks, with the grey colour of which 
its own hue assimilates so much when concealed by its mantle, that 
it is not easily discovered. It occurs from Lhar to Simla, but most 
abundantly between the former place and Subathu, 
* Animal varying in colours, sometimes pale brownish, at others 
dark grey. Two broad leaf-like processes, rising to a point, are 
spread over the shell when the animal is in motion, so as entirely 
to conceal it, and presenting the appearance of a large grey slug 
with a hump-back ; a fleshy anal horn, as in the genus Nanina ; 
foot very long; tentacula 4, the superior pair longest, buttoned at 
the tips and bearing the eyes. Orifice on the right side below the 
leaf-like process.” his is the respiratory orifice, and the description 
of the animal shows that it is similar to MJ. flemingi of the Murree 
Hills. ‘Shell large, of 5 whorls, ventricose, suddenly increasing ; the 
body-whorl forming nearly all the shell. Transversely wrinkled by 
the lines of growth ; aperture transverse, ovate, broader than long, 
discovering the previous whorls; margin acute, interrupted on the 
body-whorl. Kpidermis varying in colour from yellowish to olive- 
green. In young specimens lustrous when placed on its spire, the 
aperture appears as if the pillar-lip had been obliquely sliced off. 
The animal carries the shell horizontally on its back, the spire 
pointing upwards.” (H.) 
Macrocutamys AustentAnus, Nevill. (Plate LIV. figs. 4, 4a, +6.) 
Helicarion austenianus, Nevill, Moll. Second Yarkand Mission, 
p. 14, figs. 22, 24 (1878) ; Theob. J. A. S. B. 188], p. 45; Nevill, 
Hand-list, p. 16. 
Locality. Sonamurg, Kashmir (Stoliczka). 
Original description:— Shell much smaller than that of H. 
flemingi, more globose, suture more excavated, and the spire more 
raised, apex more distinet ; more rudely and regularly concentrically 
plicated ; whorls 5, more convex, the last one not nearly so much 
dilated; texture thinner and more membranaceous, of an equally 
dark but brighter and more glossy colour; aperture about as high 
as broad; base a shade more convex, imperforate; columellar less 
oblique, very short and abruptly triangulaily reflected. 
“Diam. 153, axis 74, apert. lat. 94, alt. 94 mm. 
“Some dozen specimens, several of which are preserved with the 
animal in spirit, were brought back from Souamurg, Kashmir.” 
They were collected by Ferd. Stoliczka on his way to Yarkand with 
Mr. Forsyth’s Political Mission. 
The specimen figured is from the original locality. This lies on 
the extreme limits of the range of the Indo-Malayan molluscan 
fauna and the limit of forest north of Kashmir, near the water- 
