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essential particular from the Bengal variety. The species has not 
before, so far as I am aware, been found in Southern India. WN. Ship- 
layt, Pfr. inhabits the eastern base of both the Anamullays and the 
Nilgiris ; on the latter hills I have found it at the foot of the Coonoor 
ghat. The animal is a Nanina, closely resembling NV. indica, Pir. and 
N. acuducta, Bens., having a large mucus pore at the caudal extremity 
of the foot without an overhanging lobe, or with but a very rudimen- 
tary one. The mantle lobes are small, and the animal in all respects 
closely resembles that of the sub-genus Ardophanta. A solitary speci- 
men of NV. indica from the Anamullays is very solid and rather strong- 
ly marked, the sculpture being less regular than in the common 
Nilgiri form, and scarcely granulate, the last peculiarity being perhaps 
due to weathering, as the specimen is decorticate and somewhat 
bleached. It isa dwarf form, less depressed than the type, and mea- _ 
~ sures 17 and 15 millem. in its two diameters, and 10 in height, The 
shells found on the Nilgiris vary considerably. 
N. Basilens, Bens. (H. Titanica, Pir.), I learn from Captain Bed- 
dome, is far from scarce in the teak forests of the Anamullays, a tract 
2,000 to 3,000 ft. above the sea, where V. ampulla, Bens. also occurs. 
The range of the latter shell extends a considerable distance to the 
north in the Wynand district, where it was found by Dr. Jerdon, if 
not to the base of the Coorg hills, while N. Basilens does not appear 
to be found north of the remarkable gap in the Western Ghats at 
Paulghat cherry, which, traversing the very highest portion of the 
whole chain, divides the Nilgiris from the Anamullies, and through 
which the railway from Madras to Beypoor passes. Both N. ampulla 
and NV. Basilens have only been found west of the Hills. 
I have not had an opportunity of comparing the shell referred 
doubtfully to Mr. Benson’s recently published N. Travancorica with 
the full description, and the identification is therefore unsatisfactory. 
The shell referred to NV. awris, Pir. is identical with a species found at 
Neddiwuttom on the Nilgiris, and corresponding closely with Reeve’s 
figure of that NV. auris in Conchologica Iconica. 
The little shell which I have called Bulimus Nilagaricus, I was at 
first disposed to consider a distinct species. It is only 14 millem. in 
length, and base by 6 in diameter. But some specimens from the 
Nilgiris are no larger, and there are graduations in size from these to 
