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vary) from very pale ochre to black or dark blue, spotted and un- 
spotted, and all except one specimen have a very noticeable dark 
line on the foot-ridge, extending from the mucous pore to the 
depression in which the shell and mantle rest. 
This interesting mollusk I have named after its discoverer, Colonel 
R. Beddome, who most kindly placed all his spirit-specimens at my 
disposal. 
It adds another genus to the rich store in natural history and 
botany that were brought together by him, when Superintendent 
of the Southern Indian forests, and which, but for his zeal as a 
collector and knowledge of zoology, would still be buried in those 
wilds unknown to science. There are many new species, if not genera, 
still to be described in this collection, and I can only repeat that I 
have not sufficient time to bring them to notice more quickly than 
I have hitherto done. 
This genus is a most interesting one, from its similarity to Girasia 
of the N.K. frontier of India, to which it is closely related, as shown 
in its internal anatomy, while it yet shows such strong variance of 
form in the remarkable shell, and its almost complete envelopment 
by the mantle, and the great difference in which this portion is set 
upon the foot, a departure pointing to very long separation under 
distinctly different conditions of life. 
GrrastA (DEKHANIA) BEDDOMEI, n.sp. (Plate LVIII. figs. 1, 1a, 
16, animal, figs. 2, 2a, 26, shell; Plate LXII. figs. 7, 7 a.) 
Locality. Travancore Hills. 
Size of shell figured: maj. diam. 1°37, min. 6°5; alt. axis 
2:0 mm. 
Animal. Would be probably 4 inches long when alive. Of a 
uniform ochre colour throughout. Mantle not papillate; a narrow 
dark line on the keeled ridge of the foot behind. 
Grrasta (DEKHANIA) BEDDOMET, var. NIGRA. (Plate LVIII. fig. 5.) 
Locality. Travancore Halls. 
Animal. The specimen drawn is smaller than the last. It is of 
a deep grey-black colour over all the upper surface, the sole of 
the foot being alone colourless. 
GrrastA (DEKHANIA) BEDDOMEI, var. MacuLosa. (Plate LVILI. 
figs. 4, 4 a.) 
Very similar in colouring to the first described, with the addition 
of blotchy spottings on the mantle, which are more run together on 
the hinder part of the foot. 
Grrasia (DEKHANIA) BEDDOMEFI, var. MAcULOsA. (Plate LVIII. 
figs. 6, 6a, 6d.) 
Is taken from a much less mature individual. The mantle is 
somewhat larger in front and expanded, covering the head. 
