496 Mr. W.H. Benson on some Shells of Southern India. 
vexis, ultimo circa umbilicum compresso; apertura vix obliqua, 
angulato-ovata; peristomate reflexiusculo, albido; margine colu- 
mellari expanso, intus profundo, parietali plica albida intrante 
superne munito. 
Long. 3}, diam. 2 mill. 
Habitat ad latus orientale montis ‘‘ Table Mountain” dicti, neenon 
prope Simonstown. 
This pretty httle Bulimoid species was found by Mr. E. Layard 
under 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, I described a Cape-Point 
Pupa as P. Layardi, from an injured specimen received from 
Mr. KE. Layard. On his return from the Cape, in 1862, 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- 
vcning between the second parietal plait and the columellar one; 
buat 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; anfractibus 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. 53-7, 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 Hela 
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 
3300 feet above the level of the sea, and fifty miles due east of 
; 
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