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Godwin-Austen — On some of StoliczTca^s 



[No. 3, 



Genus ARIOPHANTA, Des Moulins. 

 Bull. Soc. Bord. Ill, p. 227, (Nov. 1829). 



With plate giving three figures of shell and two of the animal from 

 life ; type IcBvipes, Miiller, Bombay. 



The description by Albers (Die Helieeen, p. 62, 1860) is as follows : 

 " Testa sinistrorsa, umbilicata, tenuis, diaphana ; anfractus ultimus angu- 

 latus vel carinatus ; apertura obliqua, lunaris, peristoma simplex, acutum, 

 margine columellari reflexo" ; in the sub-genus, thus defined by shell alone, 

 this writer places the following species : — 



Mmalay ana, Lea = interrupta, Bs. Bengal. 



Isevipes, Miill. Bombay. 



retrorsa, Gould {Hemijplecta, Sect. E of Theobald) Tavoy. 



janus, Chem. Malacca. 



rumpldi, v. d. Busch. Java. 



Adams adds to these : — 



Tyssolemma, Albers ( ? Thyreus, Bs.) Java ? 



trifaseiata, Chemn, = Iwvi'pes, var. Malabar, 

 and he figures Icdvipes, quoting M. E. Gray, Fig. Moll. Anim. pi. 288, fig. 

 7, which is a trace of Des Moulins' original drawing (1. c). 



Mr. Geoffrey Nevill, in his Hand-List of Shells in the Indian Museum 

 Calcutta, adds to the above : — 



laidlayana^ Bs. Lower Bengal. 



kadapaensis, Nevill, Madras. 

 = nicolarica, Chemn. re-named, as it is not found in the Nicobar Islands. 



eysis, Bs. Nilgiris. 



thyreus, Bs. Nilgiris. 



intumeseens, W. T. Blf. Bombay. 



immerita, W. T. Blf. (in coll. Beddome) South Canara. 



near interrupta. 



camhojensis, Reeve Siam. 



Tcgalis, Bs. Borneo. 

 = vittata, Adams and Reeve, {vide Adams. Gen. Moll. pi. Ixxix, fig. 5, as 

 Iffanina) . 



bajadera, Pfr. = ammonia, Valenciennes Bombay. 

 Mr. William Theobald (Cat. Land and Freshwater Shells of Brit, 

 India) includes — 



auris, Pfr. (? eysis, Bs.) Kundah Hills, Madras. 



cyclotrema, Bs. Sumeysar Hills, North of Tirhoot, 



a true Helix belonging to the (?e/<5rafo-group. 



