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Godwin- Austen — On the Operculated Landshells 



[No. 3, 



ration of which I hope to be joined by Mr. G. Nevill of the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta ; and will comprise some 45 species, many of which are new. I 

 had ample opportunities for collecting, especially while forest-clad peaks 

 were being cleared for the triangulation. The weather, which during the 

 whole of January was so very wet as to render the taking of observations 

 for days together an impossibility, was just the kind that was wanted to 

 tempt the smaller forms forth from their hiding places in the decaying 

 leaves and old tree-stumps. In some of the Khasi and Goorkha men of 

 the Survey party I found most energetic and excellent collectors, who soon 

 were as sharp with their eyes in detecting the minute little shells as I 

 myself was. It caused them at first infinite amusement and still greater 

 curiosity as to what possible use they could be put to : " Calcutta jadii 

 ghur ke waste," however, generally satisfied all queries on the subject, and 

 a general impression prevailed that we made medicine of them. 



Abstract of Genera. 



1. Cyclojjhorus, . . , 



2. Lagocheilus, . . , 



3. Pterocyclos, . . , 



4. Sjriraculum, . . , 



5. jLVycceus, 



6. Diplommatina, , 



7. Tupina, 



8. Strejitaulus, . . , 



9. Megaloinastoma, 

 10. Pomatias, 



Total, . . . . 



bo 



13 



15 



33 



Remarks. 



3 being varieties of 

 Khasi species. 



1 being a variety of 

 a Khasi species. 



No specimens of either of the genera, Gyatliopoma, Georissa, or Si/dro- 

 ccena, which come in on the hill-ranges south of the Brahmaputra, were 

 found : they are apparently absent. 



