MOLLOUSCA OF INDIA. 25 
From Kotgurh, on the river Sutlej, [ possess another variety, 
similar in type of sculpture, but of darker colour and closer, more 
regularly wound whorls, and very depressed in form; it has 7 
whorls, and is 19:0 mm. in maj. diam. This differs more from the 
type than any I have examined ; but as it is a single specimen, it is 
better not to name it. 
G. Nevill in his Hand-list of shells in the Indian Museum, Cal- 
cutta, gives the following species :— 
‘*No. 267. BensoNIA MONTICOLA, var. MURRIENSIS, Nevill, Second 
z s ’ b} b) 
Yarkand Mission, Mollusca, p. 17. 
“*, . . differs in the characters which separate it from the type, 
namely open umbilicus, compressed whorls, more vertical aperture, 
and peculiar, abruptly raised apical whorls.” Only one specimen 
was found at Changligulli, near Murree. A series is wanted from 
this locality. 
“6 No. 267. Var. ? 
“ From Kumaon. 
“No. 269. Brnsonta, n. sp. 
“ From Narkanda, Mussoorie, and N.W. Himalayas. 
“This [ suspect is only one of the many forms of monticola, not 
worthy of a specific name. 
“No. 273. Bensonia KuLvEnsis, Nevill, MS. in epist., 22nd Aug., 
1880. 
“ Kulu. 
“ No. 273 a. Bensonta THEOBALDIANA, Nevill, MS. 
“This shell was sent me in Sept. 1880, and referred to in the 
above letter as distinct from /uluensis ; it appears to me to be only 
a slight variety of monticola.” 
Oxyres (BensontA) Jamuensis, Theob. 
Hemiplecta jamuensis, Theob. Journ. A. 8. B. 1878, p. 142. 
Original description :—* Testa solida, convexa, anguste umbilicata, 
supra levissime granuloso-corrugata (H. ligutalee modo), subtus levi- 
gata. Colare supra pallide brunnea, subtus albida. Anfractibus sex, 
lente crescentibus. Labio intus incrassato simplici. -Attinet ad 27X 
23x 14 mm. 
“ Habitat in ‘ valle Tawi, inter Chineni et Adampur.’” 
This is in the Jamoo Hills, north of Sealkote, in the Panjab ; and 
Adampur must be Udampur. 
Theobald says :—‘‘ This species might be regarded by some as an 
impoverished race of the last (monticola), from which, I have little 
doubt, it is proximately derived, but it differs too much in size, 
colour, form, and range to be properly united. I have unfortunately 
no live shells, but the type of coloration in my best specimens is 
more of the type of igulata than of monticola, being white below. 
