58 ZONITID^E. 



( Colleti), amongst fallen leaves in forest and scrub ; Travancore 

 hills (Beddome). 



This shell varies in colour, form, and size. The decorticated 

 shell is almost white ; the epidermis varies in colour from straw- 

 colour to chestnut. The typical form is carinate, but there is a 

 variety, usually thicker, the var. solida of Hanley (Conch. Indica, 

 pi. 58, fig. 2, p. 27), in which the periphery is subangulate or even 

 rounded, and two specimens in Mr. Sykes's cabinet measure re- 

 spectively 38, 32, 21 mm., and 32, 29-J, 21 in their three dimensions, 

 the smaller specimen being much the higher in the spire. 



E. transpetata, the variety from Travancore obtained by Bed- 

 dome, is thinner, and chestnut in colour ; it is also of small size, 

 the largest specimen measuring 30, 27|, and 18| mm. 



*85. Euplecta rosamonda, Bs. (Helix) A. M. N. H. (3) v, 1860, 

 p. 381 ; Pfr. Mon. Hel. v, 1868, p. 77 ; H. $ T. (Helix) C. 1. 1876, 

 pi. 59, figs. 5,6. 



Distinguished from E. semidecussata by being turbinate and 

 having a much higher spire. The last whorl is rounded at the 

 periphery and tumid below. The upper whorls are more convex 

 and the sculpture decussate and granulate. 



Major diam. 37, rnin. 33, axis 24 mm., according to Benson, 

 but the figure in Hanley measures : major diam. 36, axis 27 ; and 

 there is one specimen with these dimensions in the McAndrew 

 Collection at Cambridge. 



Hob. Matelle (? Matale N. of Kandy), Ceylon (Layard). 



This is in all probability a turbinate variety of E. semidecussata. 



86. Euplecta Sllbcastor, Beddome (Nanina), P. Z. S. 1891, p. 313, 



pi. 29, figs. 1-3. 



Shell perforate, lenticular, sharply keeled, deep fulvous, rugately 

 striated above, smoother below, decussated throughout with sub- 

 obsolete impressed lines ; spire low, conoid, with convex sides, 

 suture scarcely impressed ; whorls 6|, gradually increasing, almost 

 flat above, the last compressedly keeled, moderately convex below, 

 not descending ; aperture oblique, angularly lunate ; peris to me 

 white, obtuse, columellar margin oblique, curved, very briefly 

 reflected above. 



Major diam. 31, min. 28, axis 13| mm. 



Hab. Myhendra Hill, S. Travancore, about 2500'. 



A shell sent by Mr. W. M. Daly from the Kadar district of 

 Mysore is very similar and may be regarded as a variety. It is 

 much smaller, measuring 25 mm. in major diameter. 



87. Euplecta travancorica, Bs. (Helix) A. M. N. H. (3) xv, 1865, 



p. 13; Pfr. (Helix) Mon. Hel. v, 1868, p. 130; H. $ T. (Helix) 

 C. I. 1876, pi. 50, fig. 6, pi. 149, fig. 7. 

 ? Helix laeta, Pfr. P. Z. S. 1854, p. 287 ; id. Mon. Hel. iv, 1859, 



