154. 



Godwin- Ausfcen — On some of Stoliczhd's 



[No. 3, 



Helices of this type, and liis genus was adopted by Adams and others, 

 although Thos. Huttou first, and Benson afterwards, had pointed out the 

 distinction in the sub-genus Macroclilamys ; I do not, therefore, see how in 

 fairness and by all rules of nomenclature Mr. Gray's title can be adopted, as 

 it has been, for the whole group (Indian and Malayan) of these Eastern 

 Helices provided with a mucous pore which Des Moulin s described so well 

 and so accurately ; the latter saw at once the important differences such an 

 organ implied in the general anatomy of the animal and understood its great 

 value in classification, and he shewed also its affinity in this respect to Avion 

 by the title he gave it {vide, pp. 230, 235, where he gives in full tlie 

 description of the animal, his remarks on which are well worthy of perusal). 



H. (Ariophanta) LiETiPES, Miill., var. teifasciata, Chemn. 

 Pi. X, Fig. 3, 3«. 

 S. Imvipes, Miiller, Hist. Verm. 2, p. 22, no. 222. 



„ Gmelin, Syst. Nat. p. 3616, no. 13. 



„ Chemnitz, Conch. 9, t. 108, fig. 915, 916. 



„ sub-genus, Selicelle, 2me group Aplostomes, Sme Sect, rubannees. 



„ F^russac, Hist. Moll. pi. xcii, fig. 3 a 6. 



„ Ferussac, Tabl. Syst. p. 41, no. 229. 



Sub-genus Ariophanta, T)es Moulins, Tar. a. all white, without bands, from Island 

 of Elephanta ; var. 5, c. banded, from the same locality (only this banded var. trifas- 

 data figured in the Conch. Ind. pi. cxxxi, fig. 4.) 



The figures are taken from No. 57a and 575 of the MSS. drawings 

 representing specimens from Bombay. 



Ariophanta ufTEERxrPTA, Bs., PL X, Fig. 1, la. 

 Helix interrupta, Bs. Zool. Jour. Vol. V, p. 461, (1834), fi'om SikrigaUi and on 

 the JeUinghy river (tributary of the Ganges). 

 = Simalayana, Lea. 



These figures have been reproduced from No. 44 in MSS. in Ind. Mus. 

 Library ; the specimens from which the original drawings were made were 

 obtained in the Botanical Gardens, Calcutta. 



Benson's description of this last in above Journal applies to S, Icsvipes, 

 but in his description of the animal, he says the excrements are " voided 

 from an opening in the terminal and posterior part of the foot instead o£ 

 from the foramen commune" he must here evidently be mistaking the 

 mucous gland for the anal orifice, although on the previous page (460), 

 describing the genus Nanina, he shews that they are distinct ojienings. 



S. Conch. Ind. Hanley, fig. 3, plate xxvii. Specimens from 



Faqirabunda, Jessore District, are thus described in my note-book — " The 

 animal being of a pink colour the same tint is given to tlie shell, wliile black 

 mottlings shew tlirough tlie body whorl. The head is dark-coloured up to 

 a well defined black line (extending from posterior part of the neck to 

 below the oral tentacles), thence light-coloured with a pink tinge, which 



