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"Size: maj. diam. 9-5, min. 8-5, alt. axis 4 mm." (Godwin- 

 Austen.') 



Nab. Burma : Hlindet (Spratt). 



" This species belongs to the Helix huttoni group of shells, but 

 is quite distinct, especially in the shape of the aperture." 



A specimen in my collection is distinctly papillate and pale 



Fig. 85. Mgista clara. 



corneous. It has a peripheral keel slightly impressed above and 

 below and is subangulated around the wide open umbilicus. It is, 

 moreover, a trifle larger than the type, measuring 10 mm. in 

 diameter. 



The above figures have been prepared from the type in the 

 British Museum. 



192. JEgista mitanensis, Godwin-Austen. 



Helix (Mgista) mitanensis, Godwin- Austen, A. M. N. H. ser. 6, iii, 



1889, p. 108. 

 Helix (Mgista) mitanensis, Pilsbry, Man. Conch, ser. 2, viii, 1893, 



p. 195. ' 

 JEulota (Plectotropis) mitanensis, Pilsbry, op. cit. ix, 1895, p. 209. 



Original description : " Shell globosely pyramidal, openly um- 

 bilicated ; sculpture smooth, the shell covered with a thick 

 epidermis, having a finely papillate structure ; colour dark olive- 

 green or pale umber ; spire conic, high, apex blunt ; suture 

 impressed ; whorls 6, rather convex and rounded below, the last 

 descending abruptly at the aperture ; aperture circular ; peristome 

 strong, white, with a sinuate margin above; columellar margin 

 oblique." 



" Diam. maj. 10'9 ; min. 9'4 ; alt. axis 6*7 ; body-whorl 5-2 mm." 



Hob. Burma : Mitan, under Mouleyit E-ange, Moulmein 

 (Limborg). 



" Animal with dark tentacles, long and fine ; body papillate 

 near the head, pale, dusky on the upper surface ; foot short 

 behind and pointed. In some specimens the head and tentacles 

 were jet-black, the rest of the body pale indigo." (Godwin- 

 Austen.) 



193. JEgista congener, Preston. 



Mgista congener, Preston, Pr 

 text-figure. 



Original description : " Shell differing from Helix catostoma in 



gista congener, Preston, Proc. Malac. Soc. London, xi, 1914, p. 20, 

 text-figure. 



