PILA. 101 



horizontalibus ; apertura oblongo-ovata ; labro intus incrassato, 

 obtuso. 



Alt. 43, diam. 35 mm. 



Hob. Mangalore ; Pegu (type of var.) (W. Theobald] ; Tenasserim 

 (Stoliczka) ; Mandalay (Stoliczka). 



Var. orientalis (Philippi), Zeits. Malak. 1848, p. 192, ' China " ? 



Ampullaria scutata, Phil. Conch.-Cab. ii, pi. 1, figs. 4, 5 [not of 

 Mousson] ; Nevill, Hand List, pt. 2, p. 5. 



Original description : Testa obovata, subimperforata, satis 

 tenui, obsolete fasciata, saepius unicolore ; epidermide nitida, 

 olivaeea ; anfractibus convexis, superius subangulatis ; spira 

 dimidiam aperturam fere asquante, plerumque erosa ; apertura 

 ovato-oblonga, semilunari ; operculo calcareo. 



Alt. 39'5, diam. 36 mm. 



Aperture : alt. 30 mm. 



Hob. China; Bassein, Arakan (Blanford). 



198. Pila dolioides (Reeve). 



Pila dolioides (Reeve), Con. Icon., Ampul. 1856, sp. 75 ; Nevill, 

 Hand List, p. 7. 



Original description: Shell ovate, thin, ventricose, narrowly 

 umbilicated, spire short, sharp ; whorls convex, shining, impressed 

 at the sutures, last whorl largely swollen and expanded; ash-olive, 

 obscurely red-ban ded, bands linear, irregular ; aperture very large, 

 open, columellar lip reflected. 



Alt. 56, diam. 47 mm. (dimensions of fig. 75 a in Conch. Icon.). 



Hab. Bombay (Reere) ; Ceylon (Nevill). 



199. Pila moesta (Reeve). 



Pila mcesta (Reeve), Con. Icon., Ampul, p. 92 ; H. & T., C. I. 

 pi. 115, fig. 6. 



Original description: Shell ovately globose, narrowly umbili- 

 cated, spire rather exserted ; whorls slightly flattened at the upper 

 part, then rounded, smooth ; dull olive, encircled with narrow 

 darker bands ; aperture lunar-ovate, lip yellowish-white within. 



Alt. 36, diam. 30-75 mm. (taken from fig. in Conch. Icon.). 



Hab. Ceylon. 



"A dull greenish-olive species, of globose form, narrowly 

 compressly umbilicated, encircled with numerous faint bands, 

 irregular in width, but mostly linear." 



200. Pila cinerea (Reeve). 



Pila cinerea (Reeve), Con. Icon., Ampul, sp. 94 ; H. & T., C. I. 

 pi. 113, fig. ]. 



Original description : Shell globose, thin, rather inflated 



