1866. ] Contributions to Indian Matacology. 81 
Contributions to Indian Malacology, No. VI. Descriptions of new 
land shells from the Nilgirt and Anamullay Hills, and other places 
in the Peninsula of India.—By W. T. Buanvorn, A. &. 8S. I, 
EEG SS. 
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[Received 3rd February, 1866. | 
Of the shells described in the following pages, the greater portion 
were collected by Captain Beddome, Deputy Conservator of Forests, 
in the Madras Presidency. This is the case with all the shells from 
the Anamullay hills, and also the remarkable species of Spiraculum 
from the neighbourhood of Vizagapatam. The Nilgiri Hill shells 
were found by myself in a recent visit, and H. intwmescens was given 
to me some years since by Mr. Theobald as AH. Bajadera, Ptr. 
I have since collected the shell myself living at Mahableshwar. 
1. Sprracurum Beppomet, n. s. 
Shell very broadly umbilicated, depressed, sub-discoidal, smooth, (?) 
solid, white with transverse chesnut zigzag stripes. Spire flat or sub- 
convex, suture deep. Whorls 5, rounded, the last cylindrical, de- 
scending gradually towards the aperture, and furnished, 7-10 milleme- 
tres behind the peristome, with a short open sutural tube, projecting 
forwards and upwards, not touching the penultimate whorl. Aperture 
diagonal, circular, peristome double, both lips continuous, the inner 
slightly expanded, curved back into a shallow angular sinus at the 
suture, the outer expanded, and inverted upon the upper and dextral 
margins, rising near the suture into a compressed wing, which is at- 
tached throughout on the left side to the penultimate whorl. Opercu- 
lum horny, concave within, convex without, flattened near the centre, 
2 or 3 outer whorls furnished with a free spiral testaceous lamelliform 
border. 
Millem. Inches. 
Mayor cianretern Matt cmtie. oh 27 1.12 
VGN CEO 4/5 acih enin)s we'ersteincers 23 92 
SIO deceit iesie es socsey y LO 4 
Interior diameter of aperture,.. 8 ry) 
Habitat. Kimery Hills near Waltair (Vizagapatam), northern divi- 
sion of the Madras Presidency. 
