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But he is doubtful concerning the correct generic position of the 

 two last. 



Blanford added the following : — 



Euplecfa pmisa, Bs. : Burma. 



SikriciuUensis, Nevill : Behar. [Since found to be a Macrochlamys}~\ 



climacterica, Bs. : Assam Hills. 



Austeni, W. Blf. : Garo Hills. [In my field notes there is no 



reference to any shell lobes. It is thus described : " Animal 

 of pale colour ; head and tentacles very dark ; foot rather 

 short, with gland."] 



falcata, W. Blf. : Garo Hills. [According to my notebook : 



" Animal of a pale orange tint, blending into redder colour 

 near the head ; this is brown above, with darkish, rather 

 short tentacles ; foot short, with glandular extremity." No 

 shell lobes are alluded to here.] 



ornafissima^ Bs. : Sikkim. 



? serrnla, Bs. : Teria Ghat. [Writing from memory, the animal 

 is similar to that of Austeni described above.] 



?? aticeps, Gould. [Is a Macrochlamys. As noted by Blanford and 

 observed since by myself, the right and left shell lobes are 

 well developed.] 



?? arata, W. Blf. 



Geoffrey Nevill, in his amended Hand List, which he left to me, 

 includes a great many more. These I give here because it is only the 

 combined work of conchologists and malacologists, past and present, 

 placing on record their several views concerning the generic 

 position of given species, and the expenditure of hours of labour 

 devoted to investigation, tbat will in the end result in placing these 

 forms in some satisfactory grouping. The MS. Hand List mentioned 

 above is the outcome of the last work Nevill was able to do in the 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta : it is, in fact, the catalogue of that 

 collection, and its aiTangement as left by him when he came back 

 to Europe on sick leave. Had he lived a very short time longer, 

 this revised catalogue would have been printed, and his views 

 on the classification, especially of the Indian mollusca, published. 

 As will be seen further on, he proposed a new section, founded 

 on shell characters, to embrace a number of Ceylon and Southern 

 Indian species. It is an excellent example of the method on which 

 much of our present classification has been built up ; it is as accurate 

 as most of that now accepted, while it is all on the road to being 

 made more so. I do not propose to follow my old friend Geoffrey 

 Nevill and describe and establish this new subgenus ; the species he 

 placed in it, however, show how very much has to be learned of 

 their anatomy, befoi-e they can be all satisfactorily located : some 

 have already been transferred to other genera. 



' Animal figured in L. and F. "\V. Moll. India, pi. xix, pt. 3, figs. 3, 3a, from 

 Stoliczka's set of di-awings. 



