1908.] Records of the Indian Museum. 203 



Macroschisjiia elegans, sp. nov. 



Shell oblong^ yellowish white^ rayed and blotched with rose 

 colour, cancellated with concentric and transverse striae^ the latter 

 becoming much coarser anteriorly ; fissure straight below, narrow- 

 ing towards the apex, a wide, shallow, white channel leading from 

 it to the posterior margin ; peristome acute anteriorh', thick 

 posteriorly and laterally. 



mm. 



Altitude 



2-25 



Diam., major . . 



10 



,, mm. 

 Habitat — Andaman Islands. 



4-25 



Lucapinella gaylordcs, sp. nov. 



Shell oblong ovate, laterally contracted, posteriorly somewhat 

 dilated, greenish white, irregularly rayed with blackish brown, 

 roughh' sculptured with scaly radiate ribs and concentric grooves : 

 fissure ovate, contracted near both ends ; peristome laterally blunt, 

 acute at the ends ; interior of shell white ; callus-rim of fissure thick, 

 crenulate. 



Diam., major .. .. 10-75 mm. 



minor . . .. 5-25 ,, 



Altitude . . . . 3 , , 



Habitat— Andaman Islands. 



Acnicea seniicornea , sp. nov. 



Shell semicorneous, depressedly conical, irregularly subquadrate, 

 pale yellowish brown, sculptured with fine radiating transverse ribs 

 crossed by concentric striae, presenting a very finelv cancellate 

 appearance ; edge of peristome finelj^ crenulate ; apex simple, 

 placed slightly to one side : anterior end of shell shortened ; posterior 

 end broadly produced. 



Altitude . . . . 2 mm. 



Diam,, major . . . . 9 ,, 



minor . . . . 775 ,, 



Habitat — Andaman Islands. 



Allied to Sutura fluviatilis, Blanf.,^ from the delta of the Irra- 

 wady river; the apex of the present species is, however, less central, 

 the sculpture is much finer and more cancellate, the general texture 

 is also more horny and the peristome is crenulate, which does not 

 appear to be the case in 5. fluviatilis. 



Of three young specimens of this species in the British Museum 

 labelled'' Andaman Islands," and presented by Colonel L.Worthing- 

 ton Wilmer, one bears traces of being rayed with rusty brown, a 



1 Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xxxvi , pt. 2, 1867; P- 62 ; pi. ii, figs. 



