EUPLECTA. 69 



105. Euplecta granulifera, Blf. Proc. Mai. Soc. iv, p. 252, fig. 5. 



Shell minutely and subobtectly perforate, subturbinately trochi- 

 forin, thin, horny,ornarnented above with numerous minute tubercles, 

 close together, somewhat irregular in size, and arranged in both 

 spiral and transverse series, smooth and finely striated radiately 

 beneath ; spire rather high, conical, apex obtuse, the apical wiiorls 

 smooth, suture impressed ; whorls 7, slowly increasing, convex, 

 the last filiformly keeled at the periphery, moderately convex 

 below ; aperture nearly vertical, roundly lunate ; peristome thin, 

 the margins converging above, columellar nearly vertical, reflected 

 throughout, more broadly above. 



Major diam. 6^, ruin. 5|, axis 5| mm. 



Hab. ]\ r . Canara (Beddome). 



This small species is distinguished at once by its conical spire 

 and peculiarly granular sculpture ; the latter, in this and in 

 E. cacumimfera, consisting, as seen under the microscope, of 

 minute hemispherical tubercles arranged in series, but not based 

 on ribs as in E. indica, &c. 



b. Sculpture finely decussated. 



10G. Euplecta hyphasma, Pfr. (Helix) P. Z. S. 1853, p. 124 ; id. Mon. 

 Hel iv, p. 40 ; vii, p. 105 ; H. $ T. C. I. 1876, pi. 54, fig. 3 ; 

 [Godwin-Austen, Mol. Ind. ii. 1907, p. 186, pi. 114, figs. 1, 1 a 

 (genitalia)]. 



Shell minutely and subobtectly perforate, trochiform, thin, 

 whitish to brownish horny, minutely but regularly obliquely 

 costulated, the ribs bearing very fine granulation, often difficult 

 of detection ; spire conical with straight sides, apex acute, suture 



Fig. 37. Euplecta hyphasma. 



impressed; whorls 6| to 7, convex above, the last sharply and 

 coinpressedly keeled at the periphery, moderately convex, smooth, 

 and polished beneath ; aperture oblique, rhomboidally lunate ; 

 peristome thin, acute, columellar margin subvertical above, 

 regularly curved below 7 , reflected triangularly at the perforation 

 and partly covering it. 



[In a spirit-specimen from Ambagamua the animal is pale 

 coloured, the dorsal lobes black, with a patch of same colour on 

 the sides of the neck and near the extremity of the foot ; peri- 

 podial margin broad ; the mantle-zone has no shell-lobes. Jaw 

 has a slight central projection. 



