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Show 1891.] COL. BEDDOME O N LAND-SHELLS FROM INDIA. 313 purple, with a faint olive-green reflexion ; shoulders, back, and up to carpal joint brownish copper-colour, merging into greenish grey on the back. Lower part of back and rump pale silvery grey. Quills and their coverts pale grey, with a greenish light on the coverts ; inner webs grey ; tail-feathers steel-blue, without the greyish terminal band so conspicuous in Carpophaga novce zealandia: under surface of tail-feathers dark grey-brown in their apical portion. Underparts from breast downwards pure white, without the yellowish tail-coverts found in the allied species ; linings of wings grey. Irides and feet crimson ; bill deep orange at base, yellow at tip; eyelids yellow. Total length 22 inches, extent of wings 34 inches, wing from flexure 11 inches, tail 8£ inches; bill along ridge I inch, along edge of lower mandible 1| inch ; middle toe and claw 2\ inches. Adult female. Similar to male. Hab. Chatham Islands, South Pacific. The collection contained nine specimens, which exhibit no variation. 2. Descriptions of some new Land-Shells from the Indian Region. By Col. R. H. BEDDOME. [Keceived May 2, 1891.] (Plate XXIX.) N A N I N A SUBCASTOR, sp. nov. (Plate X X I X . figs. 1-3.) Shell perforate, depressed, carinate, reddish brown, above obliquely and finely striated, the striae being very indistinctly decussated by spiral lines ; spire scarcely raised, nearly convex, depressedly conoid ; whorls 5^, very gradually increasing, the last not descending, slightly convex above, moderately swollen beneath, where the decussation is more distinct than on the upper surface, sharply angled at the periphery ; aperture oblique, angulately lunate, broader than high ; peristome very little thickened, a thin callus joining the margins, reflected at the small punctiform umbilicus. Diameter \\-\\ inch ; height f inch. Hab. The Myhendra Hill, South Travancore, at about 2500 feet elevation. The shape of this shell is almost the same as that of Nanina castor, a Khasyan species, but the sculpture is quite different ; the drawing of the Papuan Nanina tritoniensis in Tapparone-Canefri's work ' is also exceedingly like it, only a little more depressed and with a sharper angle at the periphery. It belongs, I think, to the section Rhysota. MACROCHLAMYS PERINGUNDENSIS,sp. nov. (Plate XXIX. figs. 13, 14.) Shell thin, horny, shining, yellowish brown, plicated ; umbilicus small; spire depressed subcorneal, apex obtuse, sutures prominent; 1 Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, ser. 2. iv. p. 150, pi. i. figs. 18-20. |