EUPLECTA. 65 



Eadula with the lateral teeth evenly bicuspid ; formula : 

 48 . 1 . 14 . 1 . 14 . 1 . 48 

 63 . 1 . 63 



Although the shell is so very different to typical species of the 

 genus, both this radula with the generative organs are conformable, 

 and not with the same characters of Ariophanta. I therefore 

 have to transfer it from where Blanford placed it to its present 

 position in Euplecta.] 



C. Globosely conoid or depressed, with rounded periphery. 



98. Euplecta subopaca, Pfr. (Helix) P. Z. S. 1853, p. 125 ; id. Mm. 



Hel. iv, 1859, p. 55 ; id. t. c. vii, 1876, p. 118. 



Helix corylus, Kv. Conch. Ic. Helix, no. 1439, pi, 204 j H. $ T. C. /. 

 1876, pi. 150, tig. 3. 



Shell subobtectly perforate, couvexly depressed, solid, rufous 

 horny (varying from yellowish white to pale chestnut), having a 

 silky lustre and fine arcuate costulation above, smooth, polished, 

 and radiately striated beneath ; spire low, convex to conoid, suture 

 scarcely impressed ; whorls 6, closely wound, flatly convex above. 



Fig. 35. Euplecta subopaca. 



the last broader, rounded at the periphery, convex below; aper- 

 ture oblique, lunate ; peristome thin, basal margin straight when 

 looked at from beneath, columellar oblique, regularly curved, 

 slightly expanded, more broadly at the perforation. 



Major diam. 15, min. 13|, axis 9 mm. 



Hab. Higher Hills of South-western Ceylon ; Nuwara Eliya 

 (G. Nevill); Pedro Talle Galle, 6000' (H. F. J3.), Gampala 

 (H. Nevill}. 



99. Euplecta partita, Pfr. (Helix) P. Z. S. 1853, p. 125 ; id. (Helix) 

 Mon. Hel iv, 1859, p. 55,^ id. t. c. vii, 1876, pp. 118, 532; 



H. $ T. (Helix) C. I. 1876, pi. 85, figs. 5, 6 ; Godwin- Austen, 



Mol 2nd. ii, 1899, p. 98, pi. 87, figs. 1-1 e (anatomy). 

 Helix marcida, Bs. (nee Shuttleworth) A. M. N. H. (2) xii, 1853, 



p. 92. 

 Helix subconoidea, Pfr. P. Z. S. 1854, p. 51 ; id. Mon. Hel iv, 



1859, p. 56 ; id. t. c. vii, 1876, pp. 118, 532 ; H. $ T. C. I. 1876, 



p. 36, pi. 85, figs. 7, 10. 



Shell subobtectly perforate, convexly depressed, rather thin, 

 isabelline to yellowish horny, polished, strongly but rather irregu- 

 larly transversely rugosely striated above, smooth with radiating 



