JOURNAL 



OP THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



Part II.— PHYSICAL SCIENCE. 



No. IV.~1880. 



XX. — Contrilutions to Indian Ilalacology, No. XII. Descriptions of new 

 Land and Freshiuater Shells from Southern and TFestern India, Bur- 

 mah, the Andaman Islands, Sfo. — By W. T. Blawpoed, F. R. S. 



(Received Nov. 20th ;— Eead December 1st, 1880.) 



(With Plates II and III.) 



More than ten years have elapsed since the last number of these ' Con- 

 tributions' was published.* The time that I have been able to devote to 

 Zoology in the interim has been occupied with other subjects, and several 

 forms of Indian land-shells that have been in my possession for years have 

 remained undescribed. Of a number of these, I had drawings made some 

 years ago, and several of the figures that accompany the present paper were 

 included in a pLite prepared for publication as long since as 1871, but 

 never lithographed. 



Tliese ten years have seen so many additions to the literature of Indian 

 land and freshwater sliells that tlie whole aspect of the study has been 

 changed. Foremost in importance are the late Dr. Stoliczka's papers in 

 this Journalf on tlie anatomy of several forms of Helicidce. Tlie un- 

 timely death of Dr. Stoliczka, one of the most able and energetic workers 

 who ever devoted his attention to Indian MoUusca, has prevented the 

 design he had formed of publishing a monograph of Indian Cyclostomacea 



• J. A. S. B., 1870, xxxix, pt. 2, pp. 9—25. 



t Vol. xl, 1871, pt. 2, pp. 113, 217, and xlii, 1873, pt. 2, p. 11. 



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