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very inconspicuous vertical striation; epidermis yellowish, with 
broad, oblique, bright chestnut, vertical bands, white beneath the 
epidermis; whorls 6, convex, with deep sutures, and very faint 
spiral lines, generally visible on the two to three lower whorls under 
a powerful glass; the lowest whorl somewhat flattened below and 
keeled round the umbilical region, which is white and striated 
within, and less open than in C. malabaricum; aperture a little 
oblique, oblong; peristome, when adult, double, not dilated, con- 
tinuous, before maturity simple, thin, and a little interrupted at the 
apex, where it touches the penultimate whorl; operculum a little 
retracted, a little concave externally from the slight elevation of the 
margin of the outer shelly portion, closely multispiral, with a 
moderate transparent nucleus: length + inch, greatest diameter 4 
inch. 
Anamallay hills, 6000 feet elevation, in the evergreen woods or 
sholas; Pulney hills, 6000 feet elevation, a rather smaller variety. 
This is a glabrous species, with the same markings as malabari- 
cum ; it, however, ts very much larger and more conical, not at all de- 
pressed, less prominently striated, has a differently shaped umbilicus 
and a different operculum: the spiral liration is very inconspicuous ; 
and I did not detect it till I was very carefully comparing this with 
ceylanicum. 
CyaTHOPOMA (JERDONIA) OVATUM,n.sp. (Plate LII. fig. 16.) 
Shell umbilicated, ovate, spirally lirate, furnished with a light-, 
bright brownish, obliquely striated, thread-like epidermis, and a few 
hairs along the spiral costulations, white beneath the epidermis ; 
spire conical, apex subacute; whorls 5, the lowest with about eleven 
spiral costulations continuous down to the umbilicus, the four upper 
lines nearest the suture less conspicuous, or subobsolete ; the penultimate 
with three to four spiral lines, umbilicus moderately open, spirally 
lirate within ; aperture oblique, oblong, the vertical and spiral lines 
clearly visible on the inside of the whorl; peristome continuous, or 
a little interrupted at the apex on the penultimate whorl, double, 
except on its inner or left margin; the outer lip expanded and 
reflexed on its outer margin, contracted at its base and again 
prominently expanded at the base of the columellar margin, the 
inner one white, shining, and minutely crenulated on its outer and 
lower margins; operculum as in C. wynadense, with a moderate 
transparent nucleus: length 4 inch, greatest breadth +4, inch. 
Yellagherry hills, Salem district. 
The epidermis and spiral costulations are very similar to those of 
filocinctum and wynadense ; it is, however, a smaller species, and ovate, 
not turbinate in form, and with a different operculum. C. filocinctum 
has the inner lip of the peristome furnished with large, prominent, 
obtuse, white crenations ; and the spiral ribs or costulations on the 
base of the lowest whorl are always continuous up to the umbilical 
region, there being no intervening smooth space. C. wynadense 
has the inner lip of the peristome smooth ; and the spiral costulations 
on the lowest whorl are generally interrupted by a smooth space 
