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This species was described from specimens collected by myself in 1856. 

 I had but an imperfect knowledge of land mollusks at the time, or I should, 

 I think, have seen at once, as I did some years afterwards, when re-examin- 

 ing my collections, that the shells were all young specimens of Rapliaulus 

 {JStreptaulus) blanfordi. I had altogether a considerable number of speci- 

 mens of the supposed caT^:)^* ; of these four were sent to England, 

 and were examined by Mr. Benson ; and it is manifest, from his descrip- 

 tion, tliat there was no difference between his exam^iles and mine. In some 

 of the latter I found the operculum still remaining. 



In Mr. Nevill's Hand-list of MoUusca in the Indian Museum, Calcutta 

 {I. c), specimens of Nanina calpis from the Naga and Khasi hills ai'e 

 included. Streptaulus blanfordi has been found in Sikkim, and in the 

 Dafla hills, east of Bhutan ; and I learn from Col. Godwin- Austen that he 

 obtained a specimen from Brahmakiind at the head of the Assam valley ; 

 but, as no example of the shell is known to have been found in the liill- 

 ranges south of Assam, I think the specimens in the Indian Museum must 

 be something different from the form described as Helix calpis by Mr. 

 Benson. 



25. Spieactjlum tratancoricuit, Beddome, MS., Plate III, Fig. 6. 

 Testa late umbilicata, depresso-turbinata, in exemplo vetusto adhuc 

 detecto Icevis, albescens {junior forsan epidermide induta, colorafaque). 

 Spira elevata, depresso-conica, suturd profundd, apice acuta. Anfr. 4|-, 

 rotundati, ultimus cglinJraceus, aperturam versus descendens atque breviter 

 solutus, 3 mill, pone aperturam tubulo longiusculo antrorsum directo, anfrac- 

 tum penultimum tangente, munitus. Apcrtura diagonalis, circularis ; peris- 

 toma duplex, internum breviter porrectum, superne sinistrorsum leviter 

 sinuat.um, externum expansum, atque, nisi ad marginem sinistrum, undula- 

 tum. Operculum extus fere planum', marginibus anfractuum exteriorum 

 liberis, intus concavum. Diam. maj. 12J, min. 10-|, axis 7, diam. apert. 

 b\ mill. 



Hab. In montibus Travancoricis baud procul a Tinnevelly {TI. 

 Beddome). 



Shell broadly umbilicate, depressedly turbinate, and, in the single aged 

 specimen found, decorticated, whitish and smooth throughout. Traces of 

 a brown epidermis remain around the umbilicus, and younger specimens 

 are probably brown in colour, and perhaps ornamented with coloured bands, 

 like otlier species of the genus. Spire raised, depressedly conical, suture 

 deep, apex acute. Wiiorls 44, rounded ; the last cylindrical, descending, and 

 free near the aperture, and provided above, about tliree millimetres beiiind 

 the mouth, with a rather elongate tube, which projects lorward, and is in 



