140 G. Nevill— New or little-lcnown [No. 3, 



var. ltichon-ensis, nov. 



Vise perforata, anguste fusiform i-turrita ; anfr. 8—9 convexiusculis, 

 ultimo via: majore, basi rotundato ; apertura oblonga, sup erne liaud coaretata, 

 per ist ornate expanso, marginibus callo valido, liaud tuberculato } junctis. 



Long. 9, cliam. 2\ mil. 



Hae. — Bagneres de Luchon, Pyrenees. 



Type var., Indian Museum, Calcutta; coll. G. Nevill, Esq. 



Vertigo peaslinensis, n. sp. 

 Nevill, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 65, as " Garychium, n. sp. ?" 



Shell resembles Pupa lienardiana, Crosse, from Rodriguez, but the 

 spire is less produced and there is no trace of the conspicuous parietal tooth \ 

 apex remarkably obtuse ; ^\ whorls which increase very rapidly, the first 

 three more or less cylindrical, the last one moderately convex ; smooth, 

 even under the lens no trace of sculpture is discernible ; aperture trian- 

 gular, regularly rounded at base, external margin somewhat obsoletely 

 sinuate ; a strongly developed, transverse columellar tooth, three other 

 palatal teeth, equidistant, the middle one the largest, no parietal tooth. 



Long. 2 mil. 



Hab. — Island of Praslin, Seychelle Group. 



Type, Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



Succinea longiscata, Morelet. 



Moll. Portugal, 1845, pi. V, fig-. 1 ; Baudon, Journ. Conch. 1877, pi. XI, fig. 2, 

 as S. elegans, var. longiscata and sub var., I. c. 1879, pi. XI, fig. 6, as 8. elegans, var. 

 longiscata, sub var. Folini ; Bourguignat, Esp. Franc. Succinea, p. 20, from Troyes, (as 

 possibly introduced). 



The Museum is indebted to Dr. J. Anderson for numerous specimens, 

 preserved in spirit, from Mount Hermon in Palestine of this well charac- 

 terized and very distinct species. How so many conchologists can have 

 confused it with S. elegans, Eisso or S. pfeifferi, Eossm. seems to me 

 almost incomprehensible. Probably in most instances they had not seen 

 the real species at all, or only examined some wretched isolated specimen. 

 The species has only been hitherto recorded from Portugal, Algiers, Biar- 

 ritz, and Troyes (?) ; this indubitable Palestine habitat is therefore very 

 important, more especially as no well authenticated species has been as 

 yet identified from Asia Minor, though the genus has been long known to 

 occur there. 



These Mount Hermon specimens are perfectly undistinguishable from 

 numerous specimens I possess from Maison Carree in the Province of Algiers ; 

 the latter again I carefully compared with typical Portuguese specimens 



