1880.] W. T. Blanford — Confrihutions to Imliim Malaculngij. 209 



Shell with a long deep groove at the base, pupiform or cylindrically 

 ovate, rather thick, smooth (perhaps sometimes obliquely striated), dull, 

 destitute o£ polish, whitish. Spire subcj'lindrical, with the sides slightly 

 convex, the apex blunt and rounded, and the suture impressed. Whorls 

 65, convex, the four behind the last whorl subequal, the penultimate being 

 scarcely smaller ; the last strongly compressed behind the aperture, witli 

 raised hair-like lines of sculpture, not ascending, deeply indented on both 

 sides. Aperture* vertical, nearly in the axis of the shell, not lateral, nearly 

 oblong in shape, higher than broad, both the right and left margins slight- 

 ly concave, lower margin convex. Teeth in the mouth numerous, and 

 consisting of the simplef strong re-entering parietal fold near the posterior 

 angle, two columellar tubercles (the upper and smaller situated at some 

 depth inside the mouth, the smaller and larger in front close to the lip), 

 two small basal teeth right and left of the lowest portion of the mouth, 

 and one large bifid tooth on the right margin nearly opposite to the parie- 

 tal fold, but not very close to it, and rather inferior to it in position. 

 Peristome white, expanded throughout, curved back near the posterior 

 angle, the margins united by a thick callus, on which the parietal lamina 

 is situated. Length 0'14, diameter 06, length of aperture 0'05 inch. 



The typical form was obtained in the Golcorda hills near Vizagapa- 

 tam, and the single specimen sent to me by Col. Beddome, from whicli the 

 accompanying figure was taken, was broken after being drawn. The de- 

 scription is from a specimen in the British Museum. 



A smaller variety with 5^ whorls, arid measuring 012 inch in length, 

 0'06 in diameter, and 0'37 in length of aperture, was jjrocured by the same 

 naturalist in the hills near Kurnool. 



I have received three specimens of this variety from Colonel Beddome, 

 and there are others in the British Museum. All have the same dull wea- 

 thered appearance, though they look fairly fresh ; but on one there appear 

 what may be traces of sculpture, apparently strife similar to the fine raised 

 lines occurring on the last wliorl near tlie aperture in all. 



I am not acquainted with any species of JEnnea nearly allied to this 

 species. In form, the Sikkim and Kliasi E. stenopylis shows some resem- 

 blance ; but that shell is strongly costulate, and its curious aperture, with 

 the posterior portion almost cut off and forming a semi-detached tube, shows 

 the species to be merely an ovate form of the Himalayan and Burmese 

 group, comprising 1], vara, E. hlanfordiana, and E. cylinch-elloidea. 



* It is too broad in figure 17, and the shape is incorrect. The teeth, however, are 

 nenrl)' correct. 



t Erroneously represented aa double iu tig. 17 on the accompanying plate. 



