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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF VALLONIA FROM 

 SOUTH INDIA. 



By G. K. GuDE, F.Z.S. 



Bead \2th April, 1907. 

 Two specimens of an nndescribed form of Vallonia were obligingly 

 handed to me for description by Colonel R. H. Beddome, who collected 

 the shells in the early sixties in the interior of the Anamullay 

 Mountains, at an elevation of about 3,000 feet. He states that no 

 European had visited the locality before, and that he sent specimens 

 at the time to Dr. W. T. Blanford, who gave it the manuscript name 

 Helix miserrima. These specimens being in the late Dr. Blanford's 

 collection which he bequeathed to the British Museum, have been 

 made the types. Several specimens, so named, were subsequently 

 communicated to various Indian Museums, and for that reason I have 

 thought it advisable to adopt the name. 



No Vallonia has hitherto been recorded so far south in Asia, but 

 the genus was known to occur in Asia Minor, Persia, Transcaspia, 

 Cashmir, the United Province of India (formerly called the North-West 

 Province), Western Tibet, Siberia, China, and Japan. 



A variety of V. costata was collected by Blanford at Mazendaran, 

 Persia, as recorded by Nevill in " The Scientific Results of the Second 

 Yarkand Mission," p. 4. The same author also described (loc. cit., p. 4) 

 a variety asiatica of V. costata, collected by Stoliczka at Wakhan and 

 other places north of Chitral, which he thought was probably the same 

 as the variety recorded by von Martens for Turkestan.^ 



V. codata is recorded from Turkish Armenia, Cilicia in Asia Minor, 

 Cashmir, the Province Tchili in China, and Eastern Siberia, whence 

 also a variety amurensis has been described. V. piilchella is stated 

 to occur in Palestine, Asia Minor, Transcaspia, Turkish Armenia, 

 Cashmir, and Eastern Siberia. V. pulchella, var. persica, is given for 

 Persia and Transcaspia. V. Ladacensis, again, was described by Nevill 

 (loc. cit., p. 4), and figured by von Martens from original specimens 

 received by him from Nevill.* This species occurs at Mataian, and 

 Leh, Ladak, in Cashmir ; it was also recorded for Narka (?), Western 

 Tibet, by Nevill, and for the Tian Schan Mountains, Turkestan, by 

 von Martens, while Nevill ^ mentions Spiti as habitat. V. mionecton, 

 also from Persia ; V. ptdcheUida, from Shanghai and Ningkuofu, in 

 China ; and F. tenera, from Tokyo and Osaka, in Japan, complete the 

 list of known Asiatic species of Vallonia. Von Martens mentions * 

 V. japonica, A. Ad. MS., from Oshima, Yezo, but the species appears 

 never to have been described. 



' Fedtschenko's Expedition to Turkestan, 1874, p. 9. 



2 Mem. Acad. Petersb., vol. xxx (1882), No. 11, p. 3, pi. iii, fig. 3. 



3 Handlist, i (1878), p. 75. 



* Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien : Zoology, p. 18. 



