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Show 594 LIEUT.-COL. H. H. GODWIN-AUSTEN ON N E W [June 20, A. otiphorus from the wooded slopes of the North Jaintia Hills. This variety was figured and described by m e in the J. A. S. B. 1871 (p. 93, pi. v. fig. 6). From Mr. Aldrich I have received three specimens of it all fully grown, and as it is so much smaller than the typical A. otiphorus from Sikkim (which is as much as 4-25 m m . in maj. diam.), I consider it necessary to give it a distinct title. It is also more depressed and has fewer whorls, and the umbilical area is more open than in the Darjiling form. The form of the Jaintia Hill shell is again so very distinct from that of the type species that I think it will be better to distinguish it as A. granum, var. major. 4. ALYCJEUS MAGNUS, U. Sp. Bocality. Naga Hills, 150 miles eastward of Kohima (Muspratt, in coll. Col. Beddome). Shell globosely turbinate, rather closely umbilicated, thick; sculpture fine regular costulation next the sutural tube, becoming finer and more irregular on the apical whorls ; colour, specimen bleached ; spire conoid, rounded, apex blunt; suture moderately impressed, the sutural tube long and well developed ; whorls 5, the last much swollen, the constriction near the base of the sutural tube slightly swelling towards the aperture; aperture oblique, circular, with a slight angulation above; peristome double, continuous, strong, slightly expanded and reflected, the inner with a flange on the umbilical margin. Size: maj. diam. ll-0, min. diam. 8*8 ; alt. axis. 5*25 m m . Two specimens of this shell have been submitted to m e by Col. Beddome, neither of them in the best state of preservation. It is a giant, yet modified, form of A. nagaensis, from Asalu, but it is more closely umbilicated and the costulation, for its greater size, is much finer; it is also more globose and more rounded at the apex. 5. ALYCEEUS RUBINUS, n. sp. Locality. Ruby Mines District, Upper Burmah (W. Boherty, in coll. Aldrich). Shell globosely turbinate, closely umbilicated, of thin texture, the last whorl not much swollen ; sculpture very fine close ribbing adjacent to the sutural tube, rest of shell smooth, with distant fine striaa; colour olivaceous ochre ; spire conic, sides rounded; suture impressed ; whorls 4, sides rounded, slightly constricted in front of the sutural tube, which is fine and moderately long; aperture oblique, circular; peristome thin, reflected, the double lips being scarcely perceptible, a slight nick on the inner upper margin. Size : maj. diam. 6*0 ; alt. axis 5*0 m m . 6. ALYC^US OCHRACEUS, n. sp. Locality. Ruby Mines District, Upper Burmah (W. Boherty, in coll. Aldrich). Shell sub-depressedly turbinate; sculpture rather strong ribbing |
