SYAMA. 153 



Animal mostly very dark coloured, with right and left shell- 

 lobes. No amatorial organ in the genitalia : the male organ as in 

 MacroGhlamys. 



239. Syama splendens, Hutton (Nanina), J. A. S. S. vii, 1, 1838, 

 p. 215 ; Pfr. (Helix) Mon. Hel. i, 1848, p. 73 ; id. ib. iv, 1859, 

 p. 124 ; H. 8f T. (Helix) C. I. 1876, pi. 61, figs. 7, 10 (is another 

 species) ; Nevill. Nanina (Bensonia), Hand-L i, 1878, p. 49 

 (? Panjab) ; id. Nanina (Bensonia) Yark. Miss., Mol 1878, p. 18 ; 

 Godwin-Austen, Mol. 2nd. i, 1883, p. 100, pi. 21, fig. 3 (sculpture), 

 pi. 22, figs. 4, 4 a (shell). 



Shell narrowly perforate, subdiscoidly depressed, smooth, horny, 

 brownish tawny above, paler, sometimes whitish, beneath ; radiate 

 (transverse striation almost obsolete) ; concentric longitudinal im- 

 pressed lines microscopic, flexuous and irregular; spire scarcely 

 raised, suture very slightly impressed ; whorls 7-8, closely wound, 



Fig. 56. Syama splendens. 



almost flat above, the last rounded at the periphery, flatly convex 

 below, moderately excavated around the umbilicus ; aperture 

 slightly oblique, broadly lunate ; peristome simple, straight, with 

 a white callous labiation a short distance inside, columellar margin 

 oblique throughout, scarcely reflected at the perforation. 



Major diam. 15J, min. 13|, height 6| mm. 



Hab. Western Himalayas, near Mussoorie and Simla, at eleva- 

 tions of 7000-10,600 ft. (Button}. The type was from Mahasu, 

 near Simla. 



Animal dark verdigris-green (Hutton), pale grey(Gr.-^4.). Small 

 right and left shell-lobes, the left dorsal lobe divided into two. 

 Eadula like that of M. indica: 30 . 2 . 12 . 1 . 12 . 2 . 30 (44 . 1 . 44) 

 (Godwin- Austen). [This description of the animal refers to a 

 specimen sent to me as splendens by Mr. Theobald from Murree, 

 possibly one of those referred to in Jour. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1878, 

 p. 141, from Uri, Jhelum Valley, Kashmir. The shell of this 

 species is very similar to Hanley's figure in the Conch. Indica, 

 pi. 51, and very likely the same as the shell Nevill determined as 

 splendens in ' Second Yarkand Mission,' p. 18.] 



More than one species may be found in collections with this 

 name. The shell figured by Hanley (C. I. pi. 51, figs. 7, 10) as 

 Helix splendens is not Hutton's original species described by 

 Benson. [Is quite a distinct shell, from Murree, described 

 below (No. 245) and referred to above.] Hutton in this as in 



