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Contributions to Indian Malacology. 
[No. 4, 
No. 16. — Helix lychnia , Benson. 
A shell, undistinguishable from the species above quoted, was found 
by one of us, wedged in the bark of a tree, in a shola between Pykara 
and Seegoor on the Nilgiris. This may appear surprising, as the 
original specimens were obtained by Dr. Bacon from Singapore, and 
the species has not, we believe, been met with in any part of the 
vast area extending between these distant localities. We can how- 
ever furnish a parallel instance of equally wide range, in the case of 
the nearly allied shell H. castra, Benson, which has been found in 
Tenasserim, the Kliasia Hills, Sikkim, the hills of Balasore in Orissa, 
and quite lately by one of ourselves in the neighbourhood of Kandy 
in Ceylon. 
No. 17. — Helix BarraJcporensis, Pfr. PI. II. fig. 5. 
In a former paper, we noticed the discovery by one of ourselves of 
H. Huttoni , Pfr. in the Nilgiri hills, we have above mentioned the 
further occurrence of H. castra , Benson, H. fastigiata, Hutton and II. 
lychnia, Benson, the former in Ceylon, the latter in the Nilgiris, as in- 
stances of hill shells common to both sides of the great Gangetic valley 
A fifth species is H. BarraJcporensis, Pfr., which we have lately re- 
ceived from Mr. R. Bruce Foote, who found it on the Kalryenmullay 
group of hills near Salem. The specimen drawn with the camera 
lucida is figured at PI. 11. fig. 5. 
No. IS — Streptaxis Footei, n. s. ? 
vel Sir. Perotteti,v&\'. Footei? PI. II. figs. 6, 6 a. 
Testa anguste umbilicata, depresse pyriformis, tenuiuscula, glabra, 
cereo-albida ; depressissime-conoidea apice laterali. Sutura submar- 
ginata. Anfr. 5| convexiusculi, penultimus latere dextro inflatus, 
ultimus latere sinistro, infra planatus, pone peristoma subtus constric- 
tus medio indentatus. Apertura oblonga, perobliqua : paries aper- 
turalis lamellis 2 subparellelibus, mediana intrante munitus : peri- 
stoma tenue, expansum, reflexum, margine dextro valde sinuato, intus 
1-dentato. 
Alt 5 mm. 
Diam. maj 6 „ 
Apert, alt 3 „ 
Hab. apud Shoolamullay, montium Patchamullay, Ind. Mer. ad 
alt. 3000 ped. Teste R. B. Foote. 
