1834.] On the Land and Fresh-water Shells of India. 93 



No. 25. — Novaculina Gangetica — Benson. 



Found at Mirzapoor in the Ganges. 



On stormy days, I generally found plenty of them. 



Note to the Editor. 



These are all I have yet collected. 



I have sent a few of each kind, except Nos. 10 of the Land Shells, 

 and 6, 15, 16, and 25 of the Fresh-water Shells. Of some of those 

 sent I have so very few that I could only spare one or two, without 

 making my cabinet very bare. The poorness of the specimens there- 

 fore I hope you will excuse for the present, and should you not already 

 possess sufficient, I shall have pleasure in sending more whenever lucky 

 enough to fall in with them. 



Should any part or the whole of the present communication be too 

 trifling for the pages of your Journal, do not hesitate an instant in re- 

 jecting it. My object in writing, not being for the sake of seeing my- 

 self in print, but for the purpose of communicating facts, in the cause 

 of truth. 



Neemuch, Wth October, 1833. 



List of Land and Fresh-water Shells*. 



Land Shells. 



1. Cyclostoma, (mihi) torquata? 



2. ? (mihi) fasciata ? 



3. Helix, (mihi) petrosa ? 



4. Bulimus, acutus ? 



5. ? .. (mihi) gracilis? 



6. Pupa, (mihi) cylindrical ? 



7. , (mihi) coenopicta ? 



8. , (mihi) bicolor ? 



9. Succinea ? oblonga ? 



10. AuriculaScarabseus, Scarabseus^Lam. 

 Fresh-water Univalves. 



1 . Ampullaria, 



Var (mihi) striata ? 



2. Paludina, Bengalensis ? 



8. Valvata? 



9. ? 



10. Planorbis, corneus ? 



11. Var. ? var. 



12. , ... (mihi) compressus. 



13. 



3. 



4. , 



5. , 



6. , 



7. Valvata? 



14. Melania, 



15. , 



16. , .... (mihi) 



17. Lymnsea, limosa ? 



Bivalves. 



18. Unio? 



19. 



20. , 



21. 



22. Cyclas, 



23. , 



24. - , 



25. 



NovaculinaGaneetica, ] ~ , . 

 Benson,... g ....') Gangetica. 



The specific names are given in my cabinet to enable me to distin- 

 guish them, and I have here inserted them, for the sake of reference 

 should you notice them. Those marked (mihi) I have myself given. 

 The others are those of Authors, and given where I thought they be- 

 longed. 



* When we are able to furnish a plate of these shells, the present figures of 

 reference shall be preserved. — Ed. 



