520 Notice of the Land Shells of India. [Oct. 



VIII. — On the Land Shells of India. By Lieut. Thos. Hutton, Z7th 



Regt. N. I. 

 [ Continued from the 26th No. of the Journal. ] 

 I have the pleasure to inform you of the discovery of a few more spe- 

 cies of Land Shells, made during a hurried trip between Nemuch and 

 Mhow, in the month of December last. 



26. The first is a species of Cyclostoma. 



Animal — furnished with two cylindrical tentacula ; eyes black, and 

 placed at the exterior base of the tentacula; there are also two blackish 

 points at the summits of the tentacula, which have the appearance 

 of eyes ; head very long, proboscidiform, and emarginate. The eyes 

 causing a thickening of the tentacula. Colour pale brown ; skin 

 transversely wrinkled like that of a leech. 



Shell — with five whorls ; spire prominent ; whorls rounded : the su- 

 tures well defined ; colour of the shell above varying considerably in 

 different specimens ; some being of a purplish brown, others brown, 

 and some nearly white — this appears to be owing to the degrees of 

 exposure to the sun, which the individuals may have undergone, as 

 well as age. The colours are laid on in short crooked lines, trans- 

 versely; alternately a brownish and a whitish stripe, very minute. 

 The under side is white. Aperture circular, margins united and more 

 or less reflected. Umbilicus well defined, discovering the three previ- 

 ous whorls. Operculum calcareous. Diameter half an inch. 



Found buried at the roots of grass growing beneath low shrubs in un- 

 cultivated plains between Nemuch and Mhow. 



27. Carocolla ■ ? 



Animal — unknown. 



Shell — white with a purplish band longitudinally placed on the body 

 w'iDrl above. Aperture oval and obliquely transverse. Umbilicus 



discovering the previous whorls — margins of the mouth reflected and 



interrupted oa the body whorl, a thin plate interposing. Diameter 



about five and half or six lines ; aperture longer than broad. 



"With the exception of the more contracted and obliquely transverse 

 aperture of the present species, it would appear almost identical with 

 the shell described by me, as a doubtful Cyclostoma (No. 2) in the 26th 

 No. of the Journal. Specimens of both were buried together. 



Found in uncultivated plains, buried in the earth at the roots of 

 coarse grass — between Nemuch and Mhow. — I found no operculum. 



28. Helix , 



Animal — with four tentacula, the superior pair longest, and bearing the 



eyes at the summits — colour freckled brown. — Foot long and rather 



tapering posteriorly. 



