496 Mr. W. H. Benson on some Sheik of Southern India. 



vexis, ultimo circa umbilicum compresso ; apertura vix obliqua, 



angulato-ovata ; peristomate reflexiusculo, albido ; margine colu- 



mellari expanse, intus profundo, parietali plica albida intrante 



superne munito. 

 Long. 3|-, diam. 2 mill. 

 Habitat ad latus orientale mentis "Table Mountain" dicti, necnon 



prope Simonstown. 



This pretty little Bulimoid species was found by Mr. E. Layard 

 tinder moss on large stones at Paradise, a conspicuous primitive 

 wood high up the face of Table Mountain — a spot which I con- 

 sidered likely to afford shelter to new species, but which I was 

 unable to reach. I requested friends to search for shells there 

 in 1846 ; but they were not successful. It also occurs in the 

 ravine behind the Admiralty House, near Simons Bay, with 

 Helix Capsula. 



In the 'Annals' for December 1856, 1 described a Cape-Point 

 Pupa as P. Layardi, from an injured specimen received from 

 Mr. E. Layard. On his return from the Cape, in 1863, Mr. J, 

 Sydney Hawkins favoured me with another imperfect specimen 

 from the same locality, but with the spire intact. Fresh speci- 

 mens of a smaller variety from Bredasdorp, sent to me by Mr. 

 Layard, with a coloured epidermis, and in a perfect state, I was 

 at first disposed to regard as a distinct species, with reference to 

 the smaller number of whorls and to a remote denticle inter- 

 vening between the second parietal plait and the columellar one; 

 but in the second Cape-Point specimen this denticle is present, 

 although obsolete in the original example. The colouring 

 of the smaller variety, not observable in the weathered Cape- 

 Point specimens, will doubtless be found in the perfect shell. 

 The following correction will complete the original description : — 



Pupa Layardi. — Apice obtusiusculo ; aufractibus 9, superioribus 

 convexiusculis, prope apicem convexis ; margine parietali denticulo 

 remoto inter plicam parietalem inferiorem et columellarem munito. 



Long. 8 mill. 



Var. minor. — Castaneo-cornea, translucente ; apertura aurantiaco- 



albida ; anfractibus 8. 

 Long. b\-7, lat. 2-3 mill. 

 Habitat ad. Bredasdorp. 



Cheltenham, April 16, 1864. 



Note on some Shells of Southern India. 

 In the 'Annals' for February 1861, I described, as Helix 

 Basileus, a gigantic shell found by Lieut. G. W. Cox in the 

 hills near Trichoor, and, as I subsequently learned, taken at 

 Nellyampatly, in a thick wood situated in an undulating country 

 8300 feet above the level of the sea, and fifty miles due east of 



