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AUSTENIA THEOBALDI, n. sp. (Plate LIT. figs. 5, 5a, 5d.) 
Helicarion flemingi, var. b, Journ, A. 8. B. 1871, p. 143; Nevill, 
Hand-list, p. 15. (All these shells with exception of the Naini-Tal 
specimen, which is the type of stoliczkanus, I refer to this species.) 
Locality. Bichlari, Chinab valley (Theobald). 
Theobald did not distinguish this form from M. flemingi, and 
under var. 6 of that species described it briefly as follows :— 
‘“* This race runs considerably smaller than the last, the largest 
specimen of some hundreds measuring 22x17x12 mm. It is a 
miniature of the last, and occurs abundantly in the Chindb valley, 
above the junction of the Bichlari River, and also at Dharmsala in 
the Kangra valley. The shell is almost wholly enveloped by the 
mantle when the animal is in motion.” 
AUSTENIA THEOBALDI (? STOLICZKANUS),. 
Locality. Chinab valley, above Bichlari River. 
Shell globose, imperforate; sculpture none, surface polished and 
glassy ; colour olivaceous or pale yellowish green ; spire subconoid ; 
suture well marked ; whorls 4, tumid, convex, the last ample ; aper- 
ture nearly circular; columellar margin thin, horny. 
Size: major diam. 19°5, minor diam. 16-0, alt. axis 8-0, alt. 
body-whorl 12:0, 
Five specimens were sent to me by Mr. Theobald, from the typical 
locality Bichlari. The description of the animal shows that it has 
no relationship to flemingi and it allies. It is distinct from A. 
monticola from Mussoorie, with which I have compared it, being 
much more globose, and the whorls more convex, and its colour is 
of a yellowish tint, the spire less closely wound. 
Mr. Theobald sends three other specimens from the Chinib valley, 
the exact locality not given, which differ from the type in being 
much more polished and of a darker richer olivaceous tint, and are 
somewhat more depressed. This may be the shell of an animal 
with more distinctly marked differences, or may be due to some 
local condition. 
I have another species received from F. Stoliczka, and referred 
by him to monticola with doubt ; this I think is 
AUSTENIA stoLiczKaNnvs, Nevill. (Plate LII. fig. 3, 3a, 36.) 
? Vitrina, sp., from Almorah, Hutton & Benson, Journ. A. S. B. 
vol. vii. p. 214. 
Austenia stoliczkanus, Nevill, Second Yarkand Mission, Moll. p. 15. 
? Vitrina monticola, Hanley, Conch. Ind. p. 61, pl. clii. figs. 1 & 4; 
Nevill, Hand-list, p. 15. 
The three species from the Kashmir side are, I suspect, A. theobaldi. 
Locality. Aertoolé, near Almorah, beyond Hawul Bagh. 
This species is rather more tumid than A. monticola, and its tints 
of a yellower olive; it assimilates somewhat to the form of H. 
theobaldi, but is not so globose. 
Size: maj. diam. 21:0, min. 16-0, alt. axis 7°0 mm. 
