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the soft parts of the animal throws but a feeble light on the ques- 

 tions of its origin and affinities. The eggs are like those of Caryodts. 

 The sculpture of the earlier whorls is almost exactly as in that gemi*. 

 The perfectly simple, unexpanded edge of the lip, and the basal 

 color zone are also other points of likeness between Anoglypta ancl " 

 the Caryodes, Panda, Pedinogyra series. The genital system is 

 peculiar in having the vas deferens closely bound in the integument of 

 the penis, as in Ampelita, and in the backward-projecting sack on the 

 sperrnatheca duct. This may perhaps be interpreted as an appen- 

 dicula, or it may be an independent development for the reception 

 of spermatophores, like the diverticulum in the true Helices. The jaw 

 is not smooth, as in all other genera of the Macroon group, but 

 finely striated as in Pyramidula. The radu la is altogether similar to> 

 that of Helicophanta, Panda, Caryodes, etc. On the whole, it seems 

 that Charles Hedley's estimate of the affinities of Anoglypta is by far 

 the most probable yet advanced. The position assigned by von Mar- 

 tens, and those formerly suggested by the writer, are clearly unten- 

 able. 



The only species of this genus, Mr. Hedley writes, is confined 

 to a mountainous district in north-eastern Tasmania. He found it 

 plentiful among the fern-tree gullies. " Habits very shy and 

 timid, crawling very slowly. It frequents damp places under logs- 

 and decaying stems of tree-ferns. The fire and ax of civilization- 

 threaten to diminish the already narrow range of this splendid and 

 interesting species, but its haunts are so rugged and remote that I 

 do not fear its extinction." 



A. launcestonensis Reeve, vi, 93. N.-E. Tasmania. 



Genus CARYODES Albers, 1850. 



Caryodes ALB., Die Hel., p. 141, type Bulimus dufresnii. MAR- 

 TENS in Die Hel., p. 228. SEMPER, Reiseu im Arch. Phil., Land 

 Moll., p. 102 (anatomy). TENISON- WOODS, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. 

 W. iii p. 81 (variation, etc.). HEDLEY, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 

 (2), vi, p. 19 and Rec. Austr. Mus., ii. p. 29 (external anatomy, 

 systematic position, etc.). 



Shell Bulimoid t imperforate, varying from oblong to globose- 

 ovate ; thin but solid, composed of about 5 whorls, the earlier ones 

 spirally lirulate, separated by a crenulated suture, apex obtuse, last 

 whorl punctulate above, encircled just below the periphery by a dark 

 girdle bordered with light. Aperture higher than wide, subvertical,, 

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