1891.] COL. BEDDOME ON LAND-SHELLS FROM INDIA. 313 



purple, with a faint olive-green reflexion ; shoulders, back, and wing 

 up to carpal joint brownish copper-colour, merging into greenish grey 

 on the back. Lower part of back and rump pale silvery grey. 

 Quills and their coverts pale grey, with a greenish light on the 

 coverts ; inner webs grey ; tail-feathers steel-blue, without the greyish 

 terminal band so conspicuous in Carpophaga novce zealandieB : 

 under surface of tail-feathers dark grey-brown in their apical portion. 

 Underparts from breast downwards pure white, without the yellowish 

 tail-coverts found in the alhed species ; linings of wings grey. Irides 

 and feet crimson ; bill deep orange at base, yellow at tip ; eyelids 

 yellow. 



Total length 22 inches, extent of wings 34 inches, wing from 

 flexure 1 1 inches, tail 8| inches ; bill along ridge 1 inch, along edge 

 of lower mandible 1| inch ; middle toe and claw 2| inches. 



Adult female. Similar to male. 



Hub. Chatham Islands, South Pacific. 



The collection contained nine specimens, which exhibit no varia- 

 tion. 



3. Descriptions of some nevr Land-Shells from the Indian 

 Kegion. By Col. R. H. Beddome. 



[Eeceived May 2, 1891.] 

 (Plate XXIX.) 



Nanina subcastor, sp. nov. (Plate XXIX. figs. 1-3.) 



Shell perforate, depressed, carinate, reddish brown, above obliquely 

 and finely striated, the striae being very indistinctly decussated by 

 spiral lines ; spire scarcely raised, nearly convex, depressedly conoid ; 

 whorls 5|, very gradually increasing, the last not descending, slightly 

 convex above, moderately swollen beneath, where the decussation is 

 more distinct than on the upper surface, sharply angled at the peri- 

 phery ; aperture oblique, angulately lunate, broader than high ; peri- 

 stome very little thickened, a thin callus joining the margins, 

 reflected at the small punctiform umbilicus. Diameter I4-I2 ii^ch ; 

 height f inch, 



Hab. The Myhendra Hill, South Travancore, at about 2500 feet 

 elevation. 



The shape of this shell is almost the same as that of Nanina castor, 

 a Khasyan species, but the sculpture is quite different ; the drawing 

 of the Papuan Nanina tritoniensis in Tapparone-Canefri's work ^ is 

 also exceedingly like it, only a little more depressed and with a 

 sharper angle at the periphery. It belongs, I think, to the section 

 Rhysota. 



Macrochlamys peringundensiSj sp. nov. (Plate XXIX. figs. 

 13, 14.) 



Shell thin, horny, shining, yellowish brown, plicated ; umbilicus 

 small ; spire depressed subconical, apex obtuse, sutures prominent ; 



1 Ann. Mus. Civ. G-enova, ser. 2, iv. p. 150, pi. i. figs. 18-20. 



