442 LIEUT.-COL. BEDDOME ON NEW LAND-SHELLS. [June l, 
shelter of the island. January 10th, 1875: During the hurricane 
that has just prevailed here, the Frigate-birds again came in. 
Drs. Hartlaub and Finsch do not include this bird in the Fijian 
avifauna. It is, however, I find, a constant resident, though I 
cannot hear of its nesting. 
9. Descriptions of some new Operculated Land-Shells from 
Southern India and Ceylon. By Lieut.-Col. Beppome. 
[Received May 19, 1875.] 
(Plates LII. & LIII.) 
DipLOMMATINA CANARICA, 0. sp. (Plate LII. fig. 1.) 
Shell dextral, broadly ovate, scarcely or very inconspicuously 
rimate, flesh-coloured; whorls 63, convex, all except the apical 
obtuse one closely, regularly, and sharply costulated; interstices 
smooth ; spire conical; the fifth whorl much the largest, and pro- 
jecting much more than the penultimate; the penultimate with the 
constriction just in front of the centre of the circular aperture ; 
peristome shining, continuous round the penultimate whorl, slightly 
canaliculate in its free portion below; columellar margin much 
incurved; the tooth prominent, slightly deflexed: total length 5 
inch. 
North Canara, in moist forests about Yellapore, 2500 feet eleva- 
tion, 14° N. lat. 
Allied to D. earneola (Stoliczka); but the columellar margin is 
very different, and it is a stouter shell. 
DIPLOMMATINA GRACILIs, n.sp. (Plate LII. fig. 2.) 
Shell dextral, narrowly ovate, straw-coloured, not rimate; whorls 
63, all except the apical or 2 upper ones rather distantly and pro- 
minently costulated, interstices smooth; spire rather slender, the 
fifth whorl the largest and projecting a little more than the penulti- 
mate, the penultimate with the constriction over the centre or right 
centre of the aperture, aperture reniform; peristome continuous 
round the penultimate whorl, prominently angled, below the tooth 
double, the outer lip expanded and reflexed, columellar margin 
nearly straight, the tooth prominent, a little deflexed: total length 
3 inch. 
Gudam hills, Vizagapatam, 3000 feet elevation, 17° N. lat. 
DiPLOMMATINA MINIMA, 0. sp. (Plate LII. figs. 3 and 4.) 
Shell dextral, cylindrical, straw-coloured, not rimate; whorls 54, 
convex, all except the two upper ones minutely costulated, sutures 
deep; spire blunt and tapering very slightly, the antepenultimate 
whorl not larger than the penultimate, the latter very slightly con- 
stricted ; the position of the operculum over the centre of the aper- 
ture, aperture circular; peristome shining, continuous round the 
