KALIELLA. SARAMA. 275 



prominent, suture impressed ; whorls 4|, convex, the last slightly 

 angulate at periphery, rather tumid below ; aperture oblique, 

 roundly lunate ; peristome thin, columellar margin vertical, 

 slightly reflected above. 



Major diam. 7, min. 6, height 3| mm. 



Hob. Darjiling. 



The relations of this shell are very doubtful. It cannot be a 

 Kaliella to judge by the shell. 



[Genus SARAMA *. 



Type, S. Icala. 



Range. Hill-ranges south of Sikhiin. 



The animal of the type species, and the only one of the 

 genus as yet known, is remarkable for its very dark coloration. 

 The shell-lobes are as in Macrochlamys^ the right narrow and 

 tongue-like. The type differs from Macrochlamys in the three 

 following important characters : 



1 . The absence of the amatorial organ ; 2. The absence of the 

 coiled csecum near the retractor muscle of the penis ; 3. Form of 

 the spermatophore, which is short and with spines on the side of 

 the capsule. To these may be added the form of the jaw, which 

 is very straight on the cutting-edge.] 



446. Sarama kala, Godwin-Austen (Macrochlamys), Mol. Ind. i, 1883, 

 p. 108, pi. 40, figs. 1-9 (shell and anatomy) ; ii, p. 135 (spermato- 

 phore). 

 [Fade fig. 83, p. 276.] 



Shell minutely perforate, conoidly depressed, thin, translucent, 

 polished, with ver) r fine, close, longitudinal (spiral) striation 

 throughout under the microscope, pale greyish horny; spire low, 

 conoidalt, the sides straight, suture slightly impressed ; whorls 5, 

 slightly convex, the last rounded at the periphery and below ; 

 aperture nearly vertical, lunate ; peristome very thin, columellar 

 margin subvertical above, rather broadly triangularly reflected. 



Major diam. 8-5, min. 7, height 4 mm. 



Hob. Damsang Peak, Daling Hills, Western Bhutan (W. 

 Robert). 



Animal very dark-coloured above ; pedal margin and sole pale. 

 No dart-sac and no csecum to the penis, the retractor muscle being 

 attached directly to head of penis and epiphallus. Teeth on radula 

 40 . 2 . 8 . 1 . 8 . 2 . 40 (50 . 1 . 50) : median tooth tricuspid ; inner 

 laterals with a single basal cusp on the outer side, outer laterals 

 bicuspid. [The jaw is abnormal, being very straight on the cutting- 

 edge.] 



Not one of the specimens examined appears completely adult. 

 This species may be found in Sikhim and the mountains of Bhutan. 



* [Sanskrit " the dawn " ; " Hermes " in Greek.] 



t [The spire is higher than it is represented in plate 40 of the ' Mollusca of 

 India.' [This, the type, was outlined with the aid of camera lucida. The 

 height of spire is a rery variable character in many of these species.] 



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