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Show 450 LIEUT.-COL. BEDDOME ON NEW LAND-SHELLO. [June 1, subcircular; peristome thick, double, the inner one pearly white inside and crenated (but less prominently than in C. hirsutum), outer one dilated on its outer and lower margins, particularly at its right apex and left base, and somewhat reflexed, more or less sinuate (but not with prominent crenations as seen in C. hirsutum); operculum double, externally concave, shelly, with a small transparent central nucleus : height 5 inch, greatest diameter T 6^ inch. Anamallay mountains, moist woods on the banks of the Sholayar, a large river, 2000 feet elevation. Nearly allied to Mychopoma hirsutum, but not furnished with the same curious, raised, thread-like epidermis, except within the umbilicus, and without any umbilical fringe; it is, besides, a smaller, differently shaped shell, and differs in other minor points, as indicated above. It has exactly the operculum of M. hirsutum, which, as before stated, does not differ from that of Cyathopoma wynadense; and some other forms that I refer to this Jerdonia section of Cyathopoma and Mychopoma cannot be kept up. CYATHOPOMA (JERDONIA) CEYLANICUM, n. sp. (Plate LII. fig. 20.) Shell prominently umbilicated, turbinate, with a conical blunt apex, inconspicuously spirally lirate, epidermis glabrous, yellowish, with obliquely vertical bright chestnut bands and a very inconspicuous vertical striation; whorls 5, convex or subangular, the lowest with two inconspicuous lines or ribs along the region of the periphery, and sometimes a third still more obsolete between them and the suture; penultimate with two carinations, the lower one almost touching the suture and sometimes obsolete, antepenultimate inconspicuously unicarinate ; umbilicus somewhat angled at the entrance, smooth within; aperture nearly vertical, circular; peristome sub-double, continuous, inconspicuously angled or crenated at the exit of the two carinations of the lowest whorl; operculum as in C. ana-mallayanum : length ^ inch, greatest diameter ^ inch. Ceylon, common in woods about the Rambaddi waterfalls. Very like C. anamallay anum, but distinguished under the lens by its much more prominent though still inconspicuous carination ; it is also of greater diameter with refereuce to its length. CYATHOPOMA LATILABRE, n. sp. (Plate LIII. figs. 28 and 29.) Shell deeply and prominently umbilicated, turbinato-globose, glabrous or subglabrous, epidermis of a pale yellowish brown colour, with oblique vertical dark chestnut-coloured bands and a minute vertical striation, white beneath the epidermis; spire conical, apex subacute ; whorls five or six, the lowest smooth in its upper half near the suture, in the region of the periphery surrounded with three rather prominent carinations with a smooth space between them and the umbilical region, the penultimate and antipenultimate with generally two less prominent lines or ribs; lowest whorl cylindrical, slightly descending with an inconspicuous swelling followed by a slight contraction just in front of the reflexed peristome; the |