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483. Hyalimax andamamca, Godwin-Austen. 



Ili/alimax (Jarava) andamanica. Godwin-Austen, Moll. India, i r 

 1882, p. 57, pi. 11, figs. 1-4; Cockerell, A. M. N. H. ser. 6, vi, 

 1890, p. 389 ; ibid., The Conchologist, ii, 1893, p. 195. 



Original description : " The animal is thus described by my 

 brother, Mr. Harold Grodwin-Austen, who sent me four specimens. 

 Pale watery green, yellower on the mantle, with alternate stripes 

 of torquoise-blue and chocolate on the upper part of the neck. 

 These darker lines I suspect are the retractor muscles of the eve- 

 tentacles ; the animal when living would appear to have a much 



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Fig. 163. Hi/oUmax andamanica. 

 a, shell (nat. size). f>, shell (enlarged), c, animal. 

 (Copied from Moll. India.) 



flattened wide foot, thin, and spreading at the margin, for in the 

 spirit-specimen it is much wrinkled; the extremity of the foot is 

 pointed, with no mucous gland. There is no denned pallia! 

 margin to the foot ; distinct grooves run at intervals from the 

 dorsal edge of the mantle to the side of the foot: and two of 

 the specimens show a few distinct dark spots on the upper surface 

 of the extremity of the foot. An indistinct median area on the 

 sole of the foot. Eye -tentacles apparently stout. I am in doubt 

 regarding the oral tentacles ; and if present, they are probably 

 small. The mantle is continuous over the shell, and covered with 



