68 H. H. God win- Austen — Notes on and Draxmiws of the [No. 4, 



only the females are known, and in the fifth the male has only recently 

 been discovered. 



XL — No. 2. Notes on and Drawings of the animals of various Indian 



Land Mollusoa (Puhnonifera). — By Lt.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, 



F. K. S., F. Z. S., &c. 



' (With Plate V.) 

 [Received December 15th, 1882 ;— Eead January 3rd, 1883.] 



In continuation of a former contribution, I now forward another 

 lithographed Plate from the original Drawings left to us by Ferd. 

 Stoliczka. I only trust that they may lead some of our members to look 

 more closely at the animals of the Land Shells of their districts, or collect 

 them in spirits for the Museum in Calcutta, where they are sure to be 

 sooner or later fully examined and described. In some parts of the coun- 

 try, and particularly during the rains, they may be found with very little 

 search. The Slugs are quite unknown from many parts of India. 



One object in publishing these drawings is to bring about a more 

 natural and accurate classification of the Indian 'Kelicidoe^ and I would 

 here refer to Mr. W. T. Blanford's continuation of the " Contributions 

 to Indian Malacology" No. XI L* All Indian conchologists will be glad 

 to peruse it, for no one possesses greater knowledge of the subject, than 

 the author of that work, and I trust it will be followed by other parts ; 

 it carries me back to the time when 1 first collected for him, Henry Blan- 

 ford and Ferd. Stoliczka, and the many pleasant hours passed in their 

 society. I quite agree with what Mr. Blanford has written concerning 

 classification in pages ISIi and 185, particularly as to the importance of 

 the sections Selicarion, Macrochlamys, Arioplianta, JEuplecta, &o. The 

 rules of Nomenclature must be adhered to quite as much in Conchology as 

 in other branches of Natural History. The genus Ariophanta was created 

 in 1829, vide my last paper in this Journal, and therefore it takes prece- 

 dence of Nanina by 5 years, and can be used exactly in the same sense as 

 Nanina, which, as Mr. Blanford truly remarks, " is utterly bad, it offends 

 " every law, the name had been previously used by Kisso, the type is the 

 " same as that of Benson's genus, Macrochlamys, and the term is objec- 

 " tionable on account of its signification." I am inclined therefore to 

 adopt it for all species that up to the present time are known only super- 

 ficiallj^ (1) by the shell, and (2) the animal possessing a mucous gland at the 

 extremity of the foot. Ariophanta will eventually, when the anatomy of 

 all are known, and their sub-generic value established, be retained for A. 

 lavipes, and its allies. 



* J. A. S. B., Vol. XLIX, Part II, p. 181. 



