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100 PILID.E.
available to the autlior a few remarks only on the figure are
possible. The shell appears to be of large dimensions, globular in
form, of an olive-green tint ornamented with groups of narrow
spiral reddish bands, each group varying in having from two to
four bands in number, the umbilicus would appear to be
moderately wide and the columella is diffused above into a welldefined,
purplish, parietal callus wliieh joins the upper margin of
the labrum, the outer lip is rather irregularly streaked or blotched
with the same colour and the aperture is obliquely ovate.
Alt. 80, diam. 77'5 mm.
Hab. Burma ? or Pegu ? (Conch. Ind.) ; Bhamo {Nevill).
196. Pila saxea [Reeve).
Pila saxea (Reeve), Con. Icon., Ampul, sp. 108; H. & T., C. I.
pi. 115, figs. 3, 4.
Original description :—Shell oblong-ovate, rather solid, with a
narrow covered umbilicus, spire rather obtuse, whorls a little
depressed round the upper part, obsoletely angled, then rounded ;
olive ; aperture pyriformly oblong, coluinellar Jip thinly reflected.
Alt. 29, diam. 25 mm. (taken from fig. 3 in Conch. Ind.).
Hab. Bassein, Pegu (Conch. Ind.).
" An oblong-ovate shell, of rather solid texture, characterised
by a faint depression round the upper whorls, causiug a scarcely
perceptible angle."
197. Pila conica {Gray).
(AmpuUaria) conica (Gray), Wood's-Index Test. Sup. p. 29, 1828,
& llanjey. Conch. Mi^c. pi. iii, fig. 13.
Ampullaria scutata, Mousson, Moll. Java, 1849 (not of Phil.).
AmpuUaria juvanica, Reeve, var. 1856, fide Martens ; from Cam-
* \)oA\a.Jide Morelet; Nevill, Hand List, pt. 2, p. 5.
" Shell conically oblong, scarcely umbilicated ; spire exserted ;
whorls convex, rather narrow, smooth; dark olive; aperture
ovate, rather small; lip thin." {Reeve.)
Alt. 40'75, diam. 30'5 mm.
Ilah. Java {Reeve); Moulmein {RicliLliofen, Sloliezka) ; Akyab
{Stolicsl-a).
Var. expansa, Nevill, Cat. Moll., Pasc. E, p. 9, 1877.
AmpuUariapaludinoideSjW. & T., C. I. pi. 114, fig. 5 [not of Philippi
or Crist. & Jan.] ; Nevill, Hand List, pt. 2, p. 5.
Original descriptioni—Testa subglobosa, umbilieato-perforata,
plerumque glarua, fusco-zonata; epidermide olivacea ; spira conica,
tertiam altitudinis partem occupante; anfrac,tibus ad suturam