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Show 452 LIEUT.-COL. BEDDOME ON N E W LAND-SHELLS. [June 1, in front of the umbilical region, the upper whorls with inconspicuous costulations; umbilicus lirate within, but not very conspicuously ; aperture oblique, subcircular; peristome double, not dilated, and quite smooth ; operculum as in C. filocinctum and C. malabaricum ; but occasionally the outer whorl is completely arched over, leaving only a very small hole in the centre (as in C. latilabre): greatest diameter -fc inch, height scarcely as much. Shevaroys and Yellaghirry hills (Salem district). This species comes nearest to C. hairyenense (Blanf.), but wants the crenated aperture and is considered distinct by Mr. Blanford. CYCLOPHORUS SUBPLICATUS, n. sp. (Plate LIII. figs. 25, 26, 27.) Shell broadly umbilicated, depressed, solid, of a dark chestnut brown and covered with a dusty fuscous epidermis when young, closely striated obliquely and inconspicuously, spirally lirate, and and ornamented with oblique rather inconspicuous scarcely raised folds or plications which are angled above the region of the periphery on the lowest whorl and again run backwards; spire slightly elevated, apex obtuse, sutures deep; whorls 4, convex, the last descending slightly towards the peristome ; aperture oblique, subcircular, angled at its left apex ; peristome double, both lips continuous, the inner white, the outer scarcely expanded except at its left apex; operculum of a single horny thin layer, subconcave externally, with 6 spiral whorls: diameter If-^ inch, height § inch. Ceylon, on the Haycock mountain, 40 miles from Galle. Very like C. layardi (Adams), but with the spiral lines much less prominent and furnished with peculiar oblique folds, and the peristome less reflexed. CYCLOPHORUS BILIRATUS, n. sp. (Plate LIII. fig. 34.) Shell umbilicated, turbinate, furuished with a thick dark epidermis, which is soon obsolete on the fourth or fifth upper whorl, but always present on the lowest one, where it forms an oblique, coarse, hair-like striation most prominent round the periphery and at the suture of the two lower whorls, and generally round the umbilicus, where it forms quite a fringe ; colour below the epidermis dull olive ; spire conical, apex subacute; whorls 6, the five upper ones smooth, convex, or sometimes the fifth (or fourth and fifth) with a slight rib round the centre ; lowest whorl with two prominent raised ribs round the periphery, with a broad flat space between them, below convex, smooth or with several raised strise, the whorl descending slightly near the mouth ; aperture oblique, subcircular, slightly angled at the termination of the ribs at the peristome; umbilicus more or less striated within ; peristome single, thin, continuous, or slightly interrupted on the penultimate ; operculum of a single layer, thin, horny multispiral, concave externally, nucleus small, central: height of shell -t\ of an inch, slightly more than the breadth of the lowest whorl. South-Canara range of ghats, 2500 feet elevation. This shell is closely allied to Cyclophorus cuspidatus, Bens. (Craspedoti-opis, Blanf.); it has exactly the same operculum (the |