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long and the foot posteriorly very short and depressed, below with 

 a median, slight, groove. The general colour of the body is yellow- 

 ish, with small brownish warts and some indistinct strise above, to- 

 wards the head vermilion red ; pedicles vermilion, long, with the 

 eyes on rather large bulgings ; tentacles short and paler red. The 

 lips of the mouth possess above small protuberances which are 

 used as tasters when the animal moves about ; foot narrow, white ; 

 edge of mantle very pale yollowish. 



The upper portion of the mantle has internally on the left 

 side of the pulmonary opening a double appendage : externally a 

 small rim and next below it a longer linguiform appendage. 

 On the other side of the pulmonary orifice there is a similar 

 appendage, only a little shorter than the last. Both are tough, 

 solid and generally of a brownish colour. Besides this there is a 

 small appendage at the umbilical region. The general organisa- 

 tion is the same as in obtusus, only the receptaculum seminis is thinner 

 and smaller, the vas deferens longer ; the salivary glands are larger 

 and broader, the albuminous gland is elongately and somewhat ir- 

 regularly ovate, it lies at the beginning of the rectum and does not 

 extend along it ; the kidney is elongately quadrangular, slightly 

 produced on the anterior end of the side of the heart ; it is of a 

 dark green colour, composed of large, (in spirit specimens) quite 

 opake, cells. 



The teeth are very similar to those of obtusus, perhaps a little 

 stouter, (see pi. viii, fig. 5). 



In the " Conch. Indica" the two species have been exactly trans- 

 posed. Fig. 5, which is cited as Burmanicus is a typical form of 

 Blanfordianus, on the contrary, fig. 1 which is stated to be the last 

 named species appears to be taken from a Eangoon variety of Bur- 

 manicus. Such mistakes in a work specially devoted to illustrations 

 of Indian shells are really deplorable ! 



St. Blcwfordianus is distinguished from Burmanicus by a more 

 depressed and elongated form, the last whorl being more obliquely 

 exterfded, so as to allow the previous one considerably to project with 

 its rounded edge beyond the periphery of the last whorl. The spire 

 is in the former species generally slightly prominent, but the costula- 

 tion of the whorls more crowded and intersected by mere strise, except 



