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Show 108 MB. E. A. SMITH ON LAND-SHELLS EEOM [Eeb. 5, specimens in the Museum. On comparing them with examples of E. consul of the same size, it is seen that they consist of half a whorl less, which gives quite a different look to the spire. This is distinctly less elevated, and the body-whorl, seen from above, appears to be rather broader. The colour is about the same in both species and the sculpture very similar, but the spiral stria? upon the base of the present species are a trifle more distinct than in E. consul. 21. EVEEETTIA AGLAJA (Pfeiffer). Helix aglaja, Pfeiffer, Eeeve, Conch. Icon. f. 1396. Nanina (Macrochlamys) aglaja, Martens, Preuss. Exp. Ost- Asien, Zool. vol. ii. p. 242, pi. 12. fig. 13. Hab. Sarawak (type); Barit Mountain (Everett). Neither Eeeve's nor Martens's figure gives a good idea of the type of this species. The subplications at the suture are the principal distinguishing feature. 22. EVEEETTIA BABAMENSIS. (Plate III. fig. 3.) Testa E. aglaja? similis, sed virescens, supra minus polita, lineis incrementi ad suturam haud plicatulis, anfractibus minus numerosis. Diam. maj. 13 millim., min. II, alt. 6#5. Hab. Dulit Mountain and Apoh, Baram ; varieties from Barit Mountain. The greenish tint of this species serves to separate it from the other Bornean forms of this genus. It is of the same size, presuming it to be full-grown, as E. aglaja, but is quite distinct on account of the difference of sculpture and the number of whorls. There are only five volutions in the present species, whereas in E. aglaja there are 5^-6. The upper surface has a somewhat dull silky appearance and is devoid of the conspicuous plications below the suture which are so characteristic of E. aglaja. The specimens from Barit Mountain differ from the type and belong to two varieties-the one differing only in having more conspicuous lines of growth upon the upper surface, the other in colour : instead of the greenish tint of the type, they are of a brown colour excepting a yellowish central portion of" the base. This form has sculpture equally fine as the type. 23. EVEEETTIA BANGUEYENSIS. (Plate III. fig. 4.) Testa parva, depressa, orbicularis, anguste perforata, tenuis, fusco-cornea, subpellucida, nitens ; spira parum elata ; anfractus 51 convexi, lente accrescentes, sutura profunda sejuncti, idtimus ad peripheriam rotundatus, infra paulo pallidior; apertura oblique lunata, angusta; perist. tenue, margine columellari superne anguste reflexo. Diam. map 9 millim., min. 8, alt. 4 J. Hab, Banguey Island, north of Borneo, |