CLAUSILIA. 323 



" Long, circa 33, diain. 6-5 mm. ; apert. 7 longa, 5 lata." 

 (Blanford.) 



Hob. India : Gologhat, Assam (Masters, Theobald) ; North 

 Cachar (Godwin- Austen) ; Naga Hills (OhennelT). 



" This fine species, the largest hitherto found in Assam or the 

 Himalayas, resembles C. loxostoma in its strongly crenulated 

 sutures and in form, but differs in its larger size and more 

 numerous whorls. It was first found by Mr. Masters in 1860, 

 in the hills south of Gologhat, together with Spiraculum mastersi 

 and other interesting shells. The more tumid variety has lately 

 been obtained in North Cachar by Major Godwin-Austen." 

 (Blanford.} 



The Beddome collection contains two specimens, one of which 

 is decollated, but the second is entire, and while, like the type, 

 composed of eleven whorls, it only measures 27 X 5*25 mm. In 

 the Theobald collection is a shell from Gologhat, where the species 

 was first discovered. 



285. Clausilia asaluensis, Blanford. 



Clausilia (Phcedtisa) asaluensis (Godwin- Austen), Blanford, 



J. A. S. B. xli, 1872, p. 202, pi. 9, fig. 8. 

 Clausilia asaluensis, Hanley & Theobald, Conch. Ind. 1876, pi. 159, 



fig. 5 ; Peiffer, Mon. Helic. Viv. viii, 1877, p. 466. 

 Clausilia (Phaedusa) asaluensis, Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 184. 

 Clausilia (Phaedusa (Pseudonenia)) asaluensis, Boettger, Ber. 



Offenbacher Ver. Natimv. 1878, Mitt. p. 54 ; Pfeiffer & Clessin, 



Nomencl. Helic. Viv. 1881, p. 391. 



Original desertion : " Testa non rimata, f usiformi-turrita, 

 alba vel pallide castanea, solidula, striata, ad anfractus duos 

 ultimos capillaceo-striata. Spira sensim attenuata lateribus su- 

 perne concaviusculis, apice obtusiusculo, sutura impressa, con- 

 fertirn minuteque crenulata. Anfr. 12-13, convexi, antepenul- 

 timus maximus, penultimus parum minor, ultimus ad latus 

 compressus, ad basin rotundatus. Apertura subverticalis, piri- 

 formis, lamella supera compressa, columellari immersa, lunella 

 nulla, plica palatali supera elongata, suturae parallela, secunda 

 etiam parallela, mediocri, caeteris obliquis. Peristoma leviter 

 sinuatum, album, incrassatum, continuum, breviter solutum. 



" Long. 23-5, diam. 5 mm. ; apert. c. perist. 5 longa, 3*66 lata." 

 (Blanford.) 



Hob. India: Asalu, North Cachar, alt. 7000 feet (Godwin- 

 Austen)-, Khasi Hills (Theobald). 



"This species is easily distinguished from both C. loxostoma 

 and C.ferruginea by its more numerous whorls and finely crenu- 

 late sutures. In size it is intermediate between the two, some 

 specimens beini* as much as 26 mm., or rather more than an inch 

 in length." (Blanford.) 



Clausilia asaluensis is, as might be inferred from Blanford's 

 remarks, although he does not actually say so, intermediate in its 

 characters between C. loxostoma and C. ferruginea, the sutures 



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