326 CLAUSILIID.E. 



Plica principalis longa, palatales duae majores profundae, ventrales 

 (antice intuenti supra aperturam conspicuae), lunella nulla. Clau- 

 silium ? (non vidi). 



" Alt. 20, lat. 4, apert. long. 4, lat. 3 mill." (Mollendorff.) 



Hob. Nicobar Islands : Kamorta (Roepstorff). 



"Nearly related to Cl.javana. Pfr., and should find its place 

 in Bottger's second section of Plicedusa (Pseudonenia\ and in the 

 fifth subgroup of Cl.javana" 



I have not seen this species, but/ judging from the figures it 

 appears to have a much more obtuse apex than Clausilia wueller- 

 storffi, also a Nicobar form. 



288. Clausilia shanica. Godwin- Austen. 



Clausilia (Pseudonenid) shanica, Godwin-Austen. P. Z. S. 1888, 

 p. 244. 



Original description : ' ; Testa breviter rimata, fusiformi-clavata, 

 corneo-grisea, solidula ; spira concavo-turrita, valde elongata ; 

 apex minutus, acutissimus. Anfr. 13|, lentissime accrescentes, 

 convexiusculi, sutura impressa disjunct!, subtiliter striati, ultimus 

 penultimo parum major, subtus leviter attenuatus, cervice rotun- 

 datus. Apert. parva, obliqua, late piriformis ; perist. continuum, 

 breviter solutum, expansiusculum. Lamellae modicaB, compressae, 

 approximates ; supera marginalis, parum alta, intus humillima, 

 cum spirali ut videtur continua ; infera sublimis, subhorizontaliter 



Fig. 111. Clausilia shanica. Fig. 112. Clausilia shanica. 

 (Type specimen.) 



in mediam aperturam prosiliens, antice in denticulurn desinens, a 

 basi intuenti valde spiraliter torta ; subcolumellaris subemersa, 

 oblique intuenti distinctissima. Plica principalis profunda, late- 

 ralis, in apertura antice vix a conspicua ; palatales 2, altera supera, 

 principali approximata et parallela, altera infera cum clausilio 

 perspicuo lunellum lateralem, magis minusve distinctum, fiu- 

 gente." 



" Alt. 19 j, diain. 4 mm. ; alt. apert. 3f , lat. apert. 2| mm." 



Hab. Burma : near Pingoung, Shang Hills, 2500 feet (Boettger). 



It would appear that the foregoing description is the joint 



production of the late Professor Oscar Boettger and Mr. John 



Ponsonby, for Lt.-Col. Godwin-Austen places it in inverted 



commas, and adds " This description is somewhat amended by 



