30 
Pheenicura plumbea, Gould, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 185. 
Ruticilla simplex, Less. Rey. Zool. (1840) p. 265. 
Phenicura rubricauda, Hodgs. Gray’s Zool. Misc. (1844) p. 82 
(the male). 
Phenicura lineoventris, Hodgs. MS. (the female). 
Hab. N. India. In Mus. East India Company. 
« Found along rivers, near or among mountains, haunts rocks just 
appearing above the torrent. Feeds on coleopterous insects. Con- 
tinually spreading its tail out like a fan, and in a vibrating manner.” 
—Griffith. 
16. RuTiciLLaA LEUCOCEPHALA, Vigors. 
Syn. Phenicura leucocephala, Vigors, P. Z. 8. 1830, p. 35. Gould, 
Cent. of Birds, t. 26. f. 1. 
Sylvia erythrogastra, var. A, Lath. Hist. vii. p. 28. 
Ruticilla leucocephala, Less. Rev. Zool. (1840) p. 265. G.R. 
Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 180. Hodgs. Cat. B. of Nep. p. 68. Blyth, 
Journ. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 134; Catal. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 169. 
Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 296. 
Chaimarrornis leucocephalus, Hodgs. Gray’s Zool. Misc. (1844) 
. 82. 
: The White-capped Redstart. 
Gir-Chaondeea, Hind., Hardwicke. 
Kalee pholia, Mohun Ghats, Royle. 
Hab. N. India. In Mus. East India Company. 
«This species is extremely common in the valley of the Dhoon, 
and also in the hills, along the banks of streams and rivers, flitting 
from rock to rock and stone to stone, and eternally shaking and 
spreading its tail.” —Hutton. 
17. RuTicrtLLa ERYTHRONOTA, Eversman. 
Syn. Sylvia erythronota, Eversm. Addend. Pallas, Zoogr. Fasc. ii. 
Ruticilla erythronota, G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p.180. Bonap. 
C. G. Av. p. 297. 
Hab. Caucasus (non vidi). 
3. CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS THE NaturRAL History OF THE 
AuricuLip#&, A Famity or PutmMonitrerRous MOLLUvSsCa ; 
witH DerscrIPTIONS OF MANY New SPECIES FROM THE 
Cumineian Couitection. By H. anp A. ADAMS. 
Dr. Pfeiffer, in the ‘ Zeitschrift fiir Malacozoologie,’ has very 
naturally divided the Auriculide into two subfamilies, viz. duricu- 
line, including those genera which live on the land, and of which 
the peritreme of the shells is thickened or expanded; and the Me- 
lampine, or those which are amphibious or living in brackish water, 
and in which the peritreme of the shell is straight and acute. To 
the first subfamily belong El/obium (or Auricula), Pythia (or Sea- 
rabus), Cassidula, Alevia, Carychium, and Plecotrema, a new genus 
