1895.] H. H. Godwin-Austen — Notes on Indian Land Mollusca. 155 



tint, neck and tentacles the same slightly darker ; tentacles short, the 

 oral very small ; no gland on foot, which is pointed." 



Helix (Plectopylis) achatina. Gray. Plate VII. fig. 5. 



Moulmain ? (fig. 56 of MS. Stol.) 



Description from drawing. — Animal with long slender eye-tentacles, 

 the oral of ordinary size ; colour of tentacles and neck dark umber brown, 

 pale towards the extremity of the foot, which is pointed, very minutely 

 speckled with brown throughout: a broad pale pedal margin, or 

 fringe, distinctly defined by a line of oblong tubercles apparently simi- 

 lar to what is seen in the Zonitidse, but there is no mucous gland at the 

 extremity of the foot. 



Helix huttoni, Pfr. 



(Fig. 23 of the drawings : no remarks. ) 



No locality is given ; but as the drawing was made on a piece of 

 cardboard on which were two other shells from Darjiling, I imagine 

 it was collected there. I note also that Mr. G. Nevill in his Hand List, 

 gives 30 specimens in the Indian Museum from Darjiling, and in Mr. 

 W. T. Blandford's collection are specimens from the same locality. 



In the drawing the animal is shewn nearly pure white including the 

 tentacles, with a pointed extremity to the foot, the pedal margin 

 distinct. 



Now true Helix huttoni, which was described from the 1ST. W. Hima- 

 laya, is very differently described in my Notes on specimens from 

 Waverley, Mussoorie Hill Station: — "Animal light brown, tentacles 

 long and dark brown ; " it is doubtful therefore, whether the N. W. 

 Himalayan and the Darjiling species are identical. The former also 

 have a much more hairy, rougher epidermis than those so called huttoni 

 from the latter place and the Khasi Hills. 



Mr. Theobald placed this species in the genus Fruticicola Helder 

 ( = Uygroucia, Risso, apud Adam's genera) of which the European H. 

 hispida is the type, and to which in shell structure it closely assimilates. 

 It is just as well in our present state of ignorance of the animal 

 to leave H. huttoni in the sub-genus Fruticicola, of which the animal is 

 known, rather than in Plectotropis of Albers founded on the shell only 

 (of elegantissima) from the Liew-Kiew Islands, or in Planispira. Beck 

 (type zonaria) from Celebes( = Ewysloma, Albers, t}-pe vittata) from Cey- 

 lon. We should also be guided somewhat by the known, or rather reputed 

 distribution of Fruticicola ; which ranges from the European region into 

 Asia and is represented by rujispira, Von Martens, in Turkestan ; by plecto- 

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