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Contributions to Indian Malacology. No. IV. Descriptions of new 
land shells from Ava, and other parts of Burma.—By WitLiaM 
T. BuanrorDd, Associate of the Royal School of Mines, Ff. G. 8. 
The species of land shells described in this paper are a few of 
peculiar interest selected from a numerous collection of novelties 
obtained in Pegu and Upper Burma. A far larger number remain 
to be examined, as well as several new species of Estuary and 
Marine shells from the Irawadi delta and the coasts of Arakan, 
I trust hereafter to be able to furnish drawings of the species now 
described, as well as of those published in a previous number of 
these contributions. 
Genus Sprracutum Pearson : emend. 
Shell depressed; sub-discoidal, covered with a thick epidermis, 
sometimes hairy ; aperture circular; last whorl furnished, a short 
distance behind the mouth, with a short reverted sutural tube, open 
at both ends, anteriorly inside the body whorl, and posteriorly into 
the air. 
Operculum concentric, horny, multispiral, convex or flat; edges 
of the whorls externally free and raised, similar to that of Ptero- 
cyclos. 
Animal similar to Cyclophorus and Pterocyclos, except that the 
mantle is deeply notched, (in Sp. Avanum,) the notch corresponding 
to the sutural tube. 
1. Sp. AVANUM, n. s. 
Shell convexly depressed, widely umbilicated, marked with radia- 
ting striz and covered, (in young specimens,) with a thick scabrous 
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