CHLOEITTS. 109 



141. Chloritis propinqua, Pfeiffer. 



Helix propinqua, Pfeiffer, P.Z.S. 1857, p. 109; ibid. Novit. Conch. 



ser. 1, iii, 1869, p. 498, pi. 107, figs. 15-17 ; Hanley & Theobald, 



Conch. Ind. 1870, pi. 30, fig. 10. 

 Helix unieincta (Bens. MS.), Theobald, J. A. S. B. xxxiii, 1864, 



p. 242 (nom. nud.) ; Blanford, op. cit. xxxiv, 1865, p. 104. 

 Helix (Plectotropis (Trachia)) propinqua, Tryon, Man. Conch. 



ser. 2, iv, 1888, p. 63, pi. 14, figs. 55-57. 

 Chloritis (Trichochloritis) propinqua, Pilsbry, Man. Conch, ser. 2, 



ix, 1894, p. 124. 

 Helix (Planispira) propinqua, Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 79; 



Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. B. Ixiv, 1895, p. 156, pi. 7, fi<r. 4. 

 Helix (Trichochloritis) propinqua, Peile, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. 



Soc. xi, 1897, p. 134; Blanford, op. cit. xii, 1899, p. 326. 



Original description : " T. umbilicata, globoso-depressa, tenuis, 

 striatula, albida aut pallide fuscula, fascia 1 angusta castanea 

 supra medium ornata ; spira brevissime conoidea ; anfr. 4-5 

 convexiusculi, ultimus rotundatus, antice deflexus ; umbilicus 

 angustus, pervius ; apertura diagonalis, lunato-subcircularis ; 

 perist. album, sublabiatum, marginibus convergentibus, uudique 

 late expansis. : ' (Pfeiffer.) 



Diam. rnaj. 14-19, min. 11-5-15^, alt. 7|-9f mm. 



Shell moderately umbilicated, depressed-conoid, shining under 

 a deciduous cuticle, white, with a reddish-brown, supra-peripheral 

 band. Whorls 4|, increasing slowly, finely striated, flattened 

 above, convex below, subangulated around the umbilicus ; the 

 last widening rather suddenly towards the mouth, slightly 

 constricted above behind the peristome, shortly descending in 

 front ; protoconch microscopically granulated, the later whorls 

 densely crowded with minute hair-scars arranged in quincunx and 

 usually disappearing in weathered specimens on the last whorl, 

 which is slightly and sparsely spirally wrinkled in places below. 

 Aperture oblique, obovate, margins approaching, united by a thin 

 callus on the parietal wall ; peristome white, thickened and 

 reflexed ; upper, outer, and basal margins regularly curved, 

 columellar margin ascending, triangularly dilated and slightly 

 overhanging the deep umbilicus, which at first is moderately 

 wide, showing half of the penultimate whorl, when it becomes 

 suddenly contracted. 



The above description is drawn up from a specimen, from 

 Poona, in my collection. 



Major diam. 19, minor 15, alt. 11 mm. 



Hob. India: Bombay, Satara (Peile}; Broach, Khandala, Poona, 

 Mahableshwar (Blanford) $ Belgoan (Foote); Ganjam (Beddome) ; 

 Pulney Hill (Theobald). 



The Theobald collection in the British Museum contains four 

 specimens from Pulney Hill and labelled H. fallaciosa, which 

 without hesitation I refer to 0. propinqua. These measure : 

 major diam. 14-5-16-5, minor 11'75-13'5, alfc. 8'5-9'5 mm. They 

 exhibit the hair-scars over the whole surface of the shell, but 

 another specimen from Poona, in the same collection, shows the 



