152 H. H. Godwin-Austen — Notes on Indian Land Mollusca. [No. 2, 



was able to send a large number of species alive to Calcutta, by packing 

 them in hollow green bamboos. In this way they travel well. No wet 

 moss is necessary, and should be excluded. Green leaves or grass are 

 best, and with the present rapid transit they might in the autumn 

 months reach England in safety. A collection made in Aden reached 

 me all in a living state, and survived a long time, and bred, being 

 viviparous. 



Sub -family Helicea. 



Sub-Genus Eucochlias, Theobald. 



Catalogue Land and Freshwater Shells of British India, August 

 1876, p. 26. No description is given, so I add one below. 



Type of genus Helix octhoplax, Benson. Plate VII. fig. 1. 



Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist., Sept. 1860. from Pegu, (Theobald). 



Description of Genus. 



Animal. — A true Helix; jaw grooved (according to W. T. Blanford, 

 vide Nevill's Hand List, p. 81) ; foot very fiat and oval when fully 

 extended ; tentacles rather thick, surface granulate, no defined pallial 

 line. 



Shell. — Large, solid, closely umbilicated, depressed, convex above 

 and below, keeled, aperture broadly lunate, peristome slightly expanded, 

 reflected near the short solid columella, margins joined by a slight 

 callus. Ranges from the North Khasi Hills eastward. Theobald gives 

 Moyang Khasi Hills as the habitat, and as the type shell described by 

 Benson came from him, Pegu, I think, must be a mistake. 



Description of H. octhoplax ivova. Moyang, northern side of the Khasi 

 Hills, in my note book : "of a rich dark madder brown colour, base of 

 foot and its narrow edge of same colour but lighter, when partially with- 

 drawn into shell the foot is much flattened and crinkled up along the 

 max'gin, foot rounded at extremity with no gland above." In the drawing 

 of the animal there is a well marked pale line on the dorsal side of the 

 neck, formed by three strong parallel ruga? or lines, broken up into 

 large tubercles. 



This is a very distinct genus, and the animal of very striking and 

 beautiful appearance, if we can apply such a term of praise to a snail, 

 and it is unlike any other Helix I have seen in this part of India. 

 It is very rare and local on the North-East Frontier, and I never 

 obtained it on the south of the water-parting. I have it from the 

 north of the Garo Hills, Moyang in the Khasi Hills, and Asalu in 

 the Naga Hills. 



