EUPLECTA. 71 



This species has the peculiar acuminate spire of E. cacHminifei-a, 

 but is perfectly smooth. 



109. Euplecta phidias, Thorp MS. apud Hanley (Helix), H. $ T. C. I. 



1876, p. 59, pi. 149, %. 4 (no description). 



Shell im perforate, trochiform, white with a thin yellowish 

 deciduous epidermis, smooth, finely striated obliquely, with traces 

 of obsolete decussating lines ; spire conical with perfectly straight 

 sides, sutures not impressed ; whorls 6|, perfectly flat above, the 

 last sharply keeled, but little convex beneath ; aperture oblique, 

 almost diagonal, subrhoinboiclal ; peristome thin, columellar 

 margin sharply reflected above, covering the perforation. 



[A specimen from Kandy, collected by Mr. 0. Collett, has a 

 pale ochre-coloured foot with a dark patch on the side of the 

 neck, the overhanging lobe at extremity of foot conspicuous. 

 The peripodial margin very broad, paler than the rest of the 

 body, the grooves above very close together. The left dorsal lobe 

 a narrow strip, not divided into two lobes. In the genitalia the 

 male organ has the distinct loop as in the larger species of the 

 genus, and with a large amatorial organ. 



Kadula : centre and admedian teeth as usual, the laterals very 

 numerous, long, curved, evenly bicuspid, becoming very minute 

 on the edge. Arranged thus : 



60 . 1 . 16 . 1 . 16 . 1 . 60 

 77 . 1 . 77 



Jaw very strongly arched, with no central projection.] 



Major diam. 18.J, min. 16, axis 14 mm. 



Hob. Ceylon, Upper Uva (F. Layard). 



Distinguished by its flat smooth surface and close perforation. 

 The animal is unknown of the following three species and their 

 generic position is doubtful. 



110. Euplecta? concavospira, Pfr. (Helix) P. Z.S. 1853, p. 124; id 



Mon. Hel iv, p. 32 ; vii, p. 96 ; H. fy T. C. 1. 1876, pi. 86, fig. 1. 



Shell subperf orate, trochiform, thin, whitish horny, with a slight 

 deciduous yellowish epidermis, finely and obliquely striated and 

 subobsoletely decussated ; spire conical, apex acute, suture but 

 little impressed ; whorls 6^-7, plano-convex above, the last sharply 

 and compressedly keeled, moderately convex around the perforation 

 beneath ; aperture slightly oblique, angularly lunate ; peristome 

 acute, columellar margin curved, briefly reflected above, nearly 

 covering the perforation. 



Major diam. 16, min. 14|, axis 11 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon (Layard) ; Kandy (Simon); Gongala (H. Nevill). 



There is very little if any concavity in the sides of the spire. 

 In Hanley 's figure a shell is represented with a narrow rufous 

 band above the keel, and in the upper whorls above the suture. 



