1880] 



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margin subverfcical, i-eflected for a short distance. Major diameter 0*36, 

 minor 0'33, axis 0'2-i inch. The foot of the animal is verj long and narrow, 

 and there are the usual pointed shell-lobes to the mantle. The colour of 

 the body is almost black. 



The shell described by the late Mr. H. Adams as Macroclilamys tenui- 

 cula ajipears to me almost certainly to be the immature form of a species 

 common in Bombay. This form I have had for many years ; and I former- 

 ly distributed specimens under the MSS. name of Helix effulgens, a name 

 which has unfortunately got into print. The adult shell has never been 

 described ; but the specimen figured in the ' Concliologia Indica' must have 

 been nearly full-grown. Mr. Adams's original types were said to be from 

 Sattara. It is probable they came from the Western Ghats in the Sattara 

 district ; but the species may extend to the damper portions of the Deccan 

 plateau. 



The figures herewith given are very unsatisfactory ; the left-hand 

 figure is quite inaccurate. This, however, is of less importance, as the shell 

 is very fairly represented in the ' Conchologia Indica.' 



10. MaCROCHLAMTS ? PLICIPEEA. 



Nanina plicatula, W. Bl., J. A. S. B., 1870, xxxix, pt. 2, p. 13, pi. iii, fig. 7. nec 

 N.pUcatula, Mart., Nachrichtsbl. mal. Gesellsch.., 1869, i, p. 149. 

 Helix plicatula, Hanley, Conch. Ind., p. 14, pi. xxviii, fig. 1. 



Mac7-ochlamys plicatula, Theobald, Cat. Land and Freshwater Shells Brit. Ind. p. 19. 

 Nanina, n. sp., NeviU, Hand-list MoU, Ind. Mus. Calcutta, p. 27. 



I am indebted to Mr. Nevill for calling attention to the fact that tlie 

 name I gave to this shell was pre-occupiod. I propose to change the speci- 

 fic title to plicif era. 



11. MaceochIiAMTs ? wxNNEi, sp. nov., Plate III, Fig. 5, 5a. 



Testa perforata, suhturbimto-depressa, striatula, nitida, alhido-coniea, 

 diapTiana, fascia rvfd supra periplieriam circumdata. Spira depresso-coni- 

 ca, apice obluso, suturd leoiter impressd, fascia rifd intus inarginatd. 

 A.nfr. 5\, lente accrescentes, ultimus periijherid rotundatus, suMtis modice 

 convexus, apcrturain versus vix descendens. Apertura late Imiaris, ohliqua, 

 diaqonalis ; peristoma tenue, intus haud incrassatum, margine hasali siii- 

 rccto ohiuso, columellari rcjlexo. Diam. maj. 19, miii. 171, (ixis mm. 

 {ex icone). In exemplo miiiore diam. maj. min. 12f , axis 7^ mm. 



apert. 7 lata, 6 oblique alfa. 



Hai5. Ad Mari (Murree) in montibus Himalayauis occldenlalibus 

 iufcrioribus haud procul a fiumiue Jhelum {A. B. Wgnm). 

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