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A LIST OF SPECIES OF SHELLS DESCRIBED BY DE. GRATELOUP, 

 WITH CRITICAL NOTES. 



By Hugh C. Ftjlton. 



Bead \Oth January, 1907. 



The species here listed formed part of the collection of the late 



Dr. J. P. S. de Grateloup, of Bordeaux. It has recently been broken 



up, and the types of the species enumerated are now in the British 



Museum. They were described by Dr. Grateloup in the Actes de la 



Soc. Linn, de Bordeaux, vol. xi (1839), pp. 389-455, but unfortunately 



about a dozen of the species there described could not be found. 



The plates illustrating Dr. Grateloup's paper are badly drawn, 



some of the figures being more or less misleading ; the localities given 



in the text are not all correct, and some are known to be quite 



erroneous. 



The type-specimens were in card trays with labels giving the 



localities and references to the plates and figures. 



I am indebted to Mr. Edgar Smith for friendly co-operation in 



making comparisons with some of these types. 



Pyrula Bengalina. Mr. E. A, Smith has already read a note upon 

 this shell (see p. 3). 



Scalaria Clementina. 



Melania Madagascariensis. 



M. Riquetii. 



Helix Bomhayana. {Xestina.) 



H. alauda, var. bizonalis. ( Cepolis.) 



H. chloro%ona. (Ampelita.) 



H. depicta. I take this to be a young specimen of Cepolis ( Coryda) 

 alauda, var. hehe, Dohrn. 



H. fuscolutea. A Xesta, like a miniature X. Crespignyi, Higg., but 

 quite distinct from that species. 



H. monodonta. Cepolis {Plagioptycha). 



S. oviformis. A dead and worn specimen of Helicophanta Goudotiana, 

 Eer., quite distinct from Helicophanta oomorpha, Mabille { = ovi- 

 formis, var. pJienax, Pils.), with which it has often been con- 

 founded. 



H. polychroa, yox. pictiirata. {Cochlostyla.) 



H. porcellana. A worn and damaged specimen with peristomal 

 callosities similar to Cepolis, but with the general form and 

 smoothness of Planispira. In Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost- 

 Asien, Zool., vol. ii, p. 302, it is said to have been found at 

 Lombok Island ; if so, it should be placed in the section Vuhms 

 of Planispira proposed by E. R. Svkes, Journ. of Malac, vol. xi 

 (1904), p. 88. 



H. pseudoparilis. As suggested by Pfeiffcr, a young and edentate 

 Pletirodonta ( Caprinus) parilis, Fer. 



H. rufescens. Hemiplecta Grateloupi, Pfr. {= rnfescens, Grat., ?io}i 

 Penn.). This species is allied to amhrachys and eos of Dohrn 

 from Madagascar, and not to Xesta {Eurypus) Pfeifferi, Phil., as 

 suggested by Pfeiffer. 



