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Show 442 LIEUT.-COL. BEDDOME ON NEW LAND-SHELLS. [June 1, shelter of the island. January 10th, 1875: During the hurricane that has just prevailed here, the Frigate-birds again came in. Drs. Hartlaub and Finsch do not include this bird in the Fijian avifauna. It is, however, I find, a constant resident, though I cannot hear of its nesting. 9. Descriptions of some new Operculated Land-Shells from Southern India and Ceylon. By Lieut.-Col. B E D D O M E . [Eeceived May 19, 1875.] (Plates LII. & LIII.) DlPLOMMATINA CANARICA, 11. Sp. (Plate LII. fig. 1.) Shell dextral, broadly ovate, scarcely or very inconspicuously rimate, flesh-coloured; whorls 6%, convex, all except the apical obtuse one closely, regularly, and sharply costulated; interstices smooth ; spire conical; the fifth whorl much the largest, and projecting much more than the penultimate; the penultimate with the constriction just in frout of the centre of the circular aperture; peristome shining, continuous round the penultimate whorl, slightly canaliculate in its free portion below ; columellar margin much incurved; the tooth prominent, slightly deflexed: total length Ar inch. North Canara, in moist forests about Yellapore, 2500 feet elevation, 14° N. lat. Allied to D. carneola (Stoliczka); but the columellar margin is very different, and it is a stouter shell. DlPLOMMATINA GRACILIS, n. sp. (Plate LII. fig. 2.) Shell dextral, narrowly ovate, straw-coloured, not rimate; whorls 6|, all except the apical or 2 upper ones rather distantly and prominently costulated, interstices smooth ; spire rather slender, the fifth whorl the largest and projecting a little more than the penultimate, the penultimate with the constriction over the centre or right centre of the aperture, aperture reniform; peristome continuous round the penultimate whorl, prominently angled, below the tooth double, the outer lip expanded and reflexed, columellar margin nearly straight, the tooth prominent, a little deflexed: total length § inch. Gudam hills, Vizagapatam, 3000 feet elevation, 17° N. lat. DIPLOMMATINA MINIMA, n. sp. (Plate LII. figs. 3 and 4.) Shell dextral, cylindrical, straw-coloured, not rimate; whorls 5\, convex, all except the two upper ones minutely costulated, sutures deep ; spire blunt and tapering very slightly, the antepenultimate whorl not larger than the penultimate, the latter very slightly constricted ; the position of the operculum over the centre of the aperture, aperture circular; peristome shining, continuous round the |
