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192. Pila layardi {Reeve).
Fila Im/iirdi (Reeve), Con. Icon., Ampul, sp. 27 ; H. & T., 0. I.
pi. 114, fig. 4.
AmpuUaria glohosa, Sw., var. layardi, Reeve, Nevill, Hand List,
pt. 2, p. 3.
Original descriftion :—Shell rather compressly globose, whorls
narrowly flatly impressed round the upper part, then rounded,
smooth, shiniug ; umbilicus small, contracted; aperture ovate ;
whitish, covered with an olive horny epidermis.
Alt. 48, diam. 44 mm. (taken from fig. in Oon. Icon.).
Hub. Colombo, Ceylon.
Var. virens, L%march, Hist. Anim. s. Yert. vi, 1822, p. 179,
Hab. ?; Nevill, Hand List, pt. 2, p. 3.
" cariuation at suture obsolete."
Hab. Kollam {Beddome).
193. Pila nux {Reeve).
Fila nux (Reeve), Oon. Icon., Ampul, sp. 133; H. & T., C. I.
pi. 115, iig. 1.
Original description :—Shell oblong-conoid, solid, scarcely uuibilicated,
spire obtusely exserted, whorls convex, slanting and
obsoletely plicately wrinkled at the suture; fulvous-chestnut;
aperture ovate, rather small, coluiuellar lip callously reflecfed.
Alt. 30, diam. 23 mm. (taken from fig. 132 a, pi. x.Tviii, in
Conch. Icon.).
Hab. Bombay.
" A solid fulvous-chestnut shell of an oblong-conoid form, with
the columellar lip rather unusually call^ously reflected."
194. Pila maura {Reeve).
Fila maura (Reeve), Con. Icon., Ampul, sp. 57.
Origiival descrijition :—Shell globos?., narrowly umbilicated, spive
rather short, whorls a little flattened at the sutures, then rounded,
smooth; dark olive; aperture ovate, lip stained within with
purple-black.
Alt. 45, diam. 41 mm. (taken from fig. in Conch. Icon.).
Hab. Assam (Conch. Ind.).
" Of a particularly globose form, the lip being characteristically
stained within with purple or chestnut-black."
195. Pila theohaldi {Hanhy).
Fila thenbaldi (Iliinley), ll. & T., C. I. pi. 115, fig. 2 (as
AmpuUaria),
AmpuUaria maura, Reeve, var. tlieobaldi, Hanley, Xevill, Oat. Moll.,
Fasc. E, p. 6.
Figured as above, but not described, and as no specimen is
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