152 H. H. God win-Austen— Notes on Indian Land Mollusca. [No. 2, 
was able to send a large number of species alive to Calcutta, by packing 
them in hollow green bamboos. In this way they travel well. No wet 
moss is necessary, and should be excluded. Green leaves or grass are 
best, and with the present rapid transit they might in the autumn 
months reach England in safety. A collection made in Aden reached 
me all in a living state, and survived a long time, and bred, being 
viviparous. 
Sub-family Helicea. 
Sub-Genus Eucochlias, Theobald. 
Catalogue Land and Freshwater Shells of British India, August 
1876, p. 26. No description is given, so I add one below. 
Type of genus Helix octhoplax , Benson. Plate VII. fig. 1. 
Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist., Sept. 1860. from Pegu, (Theobald). 
Description of Genus. 
Animal. — A true Helix ; jaw grooved (according to W. T. Blanford, 
vide Nevill’s Hand List, p. 81) ; foot very flat and oval when fully 
extended; tentacles rather thick, surface granulate, no defined pallial 
line. 
Shell. — Large, solid, closely umbilicated, depressed, convex above 
and below, keeled, aperture broadly lunate, peristome slightly expanded, 
reflected near the short solid columella, margins joined by a slight 
callus. Ranges from the North Khasi Hills eastward. Theobald gives 
Moyang Khasi Hills as the habitat, and as the type shell described by 
Benson came from him, Pegu, I think, must be a mistake. 
Description of H. octhoplax from Moyang, northern side of the Khasi 
Hills, in my note book : “of a rich dark madder brown colour, base of 
foot and its narrow edge of same colour but lighter, when partially with¬ 
drawn into shell the foot is much flattened and crinkled up along the 
margin, foot rounded at extremity with no gland above.” In the drawing 
of the animal there is a well marked pale line on the dorsal side of the 
neck, formed by three strong parallel rugae or lines, broken up into 
large tubercles. 
This is a very distinct genus, and the animal of very striking and 
beautiful appearance, if we can apply such a term of praise to a snail, 
and it is unlike any other Helix I have seen in this part of India. 
It is very rare and local on the North-East Frontier, and I never 
obtained it on the south of the water-parting. I have it from the 
north of the Garo Hills, Moyang in the Khasi Hills, and Asalu in 
the Naga Hills. 
