1880.] W. T. Blanford — Contributions to Indian Malaeology. 199 



spects, and which resembles Jacquemont's figure also, but it wants the red 

 band round the periphery shown in Pfeiffer's figure. It is just possible 

 that two species are included by Martens. The true N. jacciuemonti is 

 probably a Benson ia. 



12. PtrpA (Ptipisoma) etezaedi. 



" Pupa (Pupismna) evezardi, Blanford," Nevill, Hand-list Moll. Ind. Mus. Calcutta, 

 pt. i. p. 192. 



?" «wz«r(?j, Blanford MS.," Hanley, Conch. Ind. p. 41. pi. ci, figs. 6, 6. — 

 Theob. Cat. Land & Freshwater Shells Brit. Ind. p. 30.— Pfr. Mon. Hal. viii. p. 416. 



Testa imperforata, vix suhrimata, conoideo-ovata, tenuis, cornea, lineis 

 elevatis irregwlarihus JiUformihus ohliquis ornata. Spira subtus suhcylin- 

 dracea, superne conoidea, laterihus convexis, apice ohtiiso, suturd impressd. 

 Anfr. 4|-, convexi, regulariter crescentes, ultimus parum major, peripheria 

 atque iasi rotundatus, hand antice descendens. Apertura diagonalis, 

 truncato-rotunda, edentiila ; peristoma tenue, rectum, expansiusculum, mar- 

 ginihus conniventibus, coliimellari verticali, ad basin siibtorto, adnato-rejlexo, 

 regionem umhilicalem tegente. Long. 2f, diam.fere 2, long. ap. 1 mm. 



Hab. In cortice arborum ad Khandalla inter Bombay et Poona 

 ((?. Uvezard). 



Shell imperforate, Avith scarcely even a trace of rimation in the umbili- 

 cal region, conoidly ovate, thin, horny, with raised hair-like oblique lines, 

 rather irregularly disposed, on all the whorls. Spire nearly cylindrical below, 

 conoidal above, the sides convex, apex blunt, suture impressed. Whorls 4^-, 

 convex, increasing in size regularly ; the last but little larger than the 

 penultimate, rounded at the periphery and below, not descending in front. 

 Aperture diagonal, neaily circular, but truncated above, without teeth ; 

 peristome thin, all in one plane, slightly expanded, margins converging ; 

 columellar vertical above, slightly twisted below, reflected and united to 

 the whorl so as completely to cover the umbilicus. Length O il, diameter 

 O'OS, length of aperture 0'04 inch. 



If the form represented by Hanley in the ' Conchologia Indica' be 

 precisely the same as that described above, I am inclined to question the 

 locality given, "Singhur," or, as Mr. Theobald prefers writing it, "Syngliar," 

 presumably Siuhgarh, near Poona. The original specimens were found by 

 Colonel Evezard at Karkalla, near Khandalla, at the head of the Bor-ghat ; 

 and I suspect that Hanley's figure was taken from one of them. There 

 are two or three allied forms found in the Syhadri range and the Nilgiris, 

 forms tliat do not appear hitherto to have been described. 



The subgenus Fupisoma was proposed by Stoliczka* for the Moulniein 



• J. A. B. B., 1873, vol. xlii. pt. 2, p. 32. 



