Cyclophorus foliaceus, G. Nevill. Hand List Moll. Indian 



Mus., p. 274, 1878. 

 Otopoma foliaceum, Bourguignat, in Révoil, Voy. pays 

 Somalis, Mollusques, p. 60, 1882. 



T. profonde umbilicata, subdepresso-turbinata, solida, 

 crassiuscula, haudnitens, scabriuscula, striis tenuissimis, 

 densis, vix undulatis transversim impressa, lineis incre- 

 menti parum conspicuis subdecussata, rosea, versus me- 

 diam partem anfractus ultimi ad album colorem tran- 

 siens; spira mediocriter éleva ta, apice obtusulo, rotun- 

 dato; sutura prof unde impressa, imprimis in anfr. pen- 

 ultimo et ultimo; anfr. 5 1/2 convexiusculi , sensim 

 accrescentes, primi 2 Ixvigati, fidvido-rosei, sequentes 

 striati, ultimus spiram superans, obsolète carinatus, pau- 

 lulum descendens, mox juxta insertionem resurgens, ver- 

 sus médium et usque ad occursum marginis externi lamel- 

 las longitudinales, foliaceas, prominulas, irregulariter dis- 

 tantes, tenues, fragiles, albas emiitens t albidus ; apertura 

 obliqua, irregulariter subcircularis, albida, in ima fauce 

 et pone columellam fulvida; peristoma subexpansum, re- 

 flexum, albidum,marginibus callo crassiusculo junctis, co- 

 lumellari dilatato, umbilici partem occultante, basali ro- 

 tundato,externo subinflexo; umbilicus lamellis penetranti- 

 bus anfractus ultimi leviter coarctatus. — Diam. maj. 31 , 

 min. 26; ait. 27 mill. Apertura cum peristomate 17 mill. 

 longa, 17 lata. — Operculum corneum, tenue, polygyra- 

 tum, circulare, nucleo cenlrali munitum, extus haud ni- 

 tens, concaviusculum, intus Ixvigatum, nitidum, nucleo 

 prominulo, papillato. — Long. 13, lat. 13 millim. (Coll. 

 Grosse et Dautzenberg.) 



Habitat in vicinio portus Nancowry, in insula Camorta 

 dicta, archip. Nicobarici (Stoliczka; A. de RoepstorffJ. 



