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PREFACE. 



THE present short volume of the ' Fauna of British India ' 

 series deals with the families Testacellidae and Zonitidae of 

 the Indian Land-Mollusca. This account of these two 

 important families of land-shells is founded on the all too 

 short manuscript left by the late Dr. Blanford, who in it had 

 dealt with the shells chiefly from the conchological side. It 

 was fortunate therefore that Lt.-Col. Godwin- Austen, whose 

 unique knowledge of Indian Mollusca is well known to 

 students of the Indian Fauna, willingly consented to take up 

 and complete the malacological part required for the volume. 

 This, however, necessitated a re-arrangement of the MS. 

 and a considerable amount of further study and dissections, 

 all of which retarded the publication of the work. 



C. T. BINGHAM. 



London, 

 June 1908. 



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