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the typical shells. The solitary specimen of B. physalis has only 
traces of spiral sculpture, but it appears to agree in every other respect 
with Mr. Benson’s description. 
A dwarf form of Cyclophorus Jerdoni, only 29 millem. in diameter 
and 19 high, and 2 species of Pterocyclos, one of them unquestionably 
identical with Pt. nanus, Bens., are also comprised in Captain Bed- 
dome’s collections. The second species of Pterocyclos of which a 
single weathered specimen was found, shews no essential distinction 
from the Bengal Pt. rupestris, Bens., but it appears improbable that 
that form should really exist so far to the south. 
Cyclophorus deplanatus, Pfr. some decorticated specimens of which 
were amongst the Anamullay shells, occurs abundantly on Sispara 
ghat, at the western extremity of the Nilgiri plateau. A small shell 
in Captain Beddome’s collections, with more colouring than C. ravi- 
dus, Bens., and ornamented with zigzag transverse stripes, may possi- 
bly be a young specimen of that species, but its thin and continuous 
peristome recalls that of some forms of Aulopoma, and the possibility 
of its belonging to that genus is strengthened by the deficiency of the 
epidermis close to the peristome. As the Anamullays have already 
furnished a Cataulus, the occurrence of a species of Aulopoma is by no 
means improbable. 
The Paludomus is perhaps a variety of the species common near 
Bombay. The little Nerztina Perrotettiana was previously unknown 
except in the Pykara river on the Nilgiris. 
We have evidently, as yet, only an instalment of the molluscan 
fauna of the Anamullays. None of the shells above specified are from 
the higher ranges. So far as they have been collected, there is, as 
might have been anticipated, a general identity with Nilgiri shells, 
but at the same time a somewhat closer approximation to the Cinga- 
lese fauna. 
P. §.—The above paper was written six months ago, and would 
have been sent for publication in the Society’s Journal at once, but 
that I hoped to be able to procure drawings of the shells for the pur- 
pose of illustrating it. In this, I have again been disappointed, and I 
am compelled to forward the descriptions of the shells by themselves. 
In the meantime, however, I have received from Captain Beddome 
several additional shells from the Anamullay hills collected by him 
