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this species, " Khasi, Dafla and Naga Hills " is given as the range 

 of this species and as collected by me. I hope soon to see these 

 examples, not having found them in my own collection. The 

 identification is Geoffrey Nevill's. I do not think he looked 

 sufficiently closely at them. Mr. Gude has simply copied from 

 Nevill's 'Hand-list,' p. 169, "30 specimens." These I trust are 

 not now all mixed together. Jaintia Hills (Bcddome) is also 

 given on p. 429. These I have seen, they are No. 751 of my 

 catalogue (5 examples). They are not crassula, but a small var. 

 of crassilabris. 



Glessula subjerdoni, Beddome, Nevill MS. 



Under this title the species is recorded by Geoffrey Nevill in his 

 amended copy of the ' Hand-list' facing page 167. Tour specimens 

 from the Jeypur Hills, Madras, received from Col. K. H. Beddome. 

 Nevill gives the measurement as : long. 9, diam. 3| mm. ; anfr. 7. 

 This would be the var. minor of Beddome. 



In the 'Fauna British India, MoUusca,' 1914, p. 434, Mr. Gude 

 gives Darjiliiig as a habitat of this species from specimens he had 

 found in the Boddorae collection. These are No.'814 of my catalogue 

 of that collection : the name subjerdoni had been written by Bed- 

 dome in pencil, a sign he had not determined it to his satisfaction ; 

 nor had I, when I came across it first in 1912, when under the 

 direction of the British Museum authorities I commenced working 

 at the shells in the Beddome collection and making a catalogue of 

 them. In August 1914, when duty in the country prevented my 

 going as usual to town, Mr. Gude obtained access to the Beddome 

 collection of Glesmla through those who had charge of it — very 

 improperly, I consider, when it had been placed in my charge and a 

 catalogue was in progress. Thus Mr. Gude was working at this 

 collection, quite unknown to me, for a considerable lime — some 

 three months,- — and when seen again by me was in a new state of 

 arrangement, as put on record in my catalogue. 



In the interests of the distribution of Indian species it would 

 not be fair treatment to overlook such record. I have, therefore, 

 gone carefully over all the specimens of subjerdoni in the Beddome 

 collection, so as to arrive at some better knowledge of them. I 

 have had photographs made of the shells and made myself enlarged 

 drawings with camera lucida of the apical whorls of the following 

 three specimens, a better means of showing differences than any 

 description : — 



No. 812. Bedd. coll. G. subjerdoni, Bedd., Golconda Hills. 



(Plate CLXIV. apex fig. 7.) 

 No. 809. Bedd. coll. 0. subjerdoni, Bedd., Teunevelly Yalley. 



(Plate CLXIV. apex fig. 6.) 

 No. 811. Bedd. coll. O. subjerdoni, ya,T. minor. TypicalJej'pur 



Hills. (Plate CLXIV. apex fig. 5.) 



By this test the so-called G. subjerdoni of Dai-jiling (No. 814 of 



