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PILA. 101<br />
horizontalibus; apertura oblongo-ovata; labro intus incrassalo,<br />
obtuso.<br />
Alt. 43, diam. 35 mm.<br />
Hah. Mangalore ; Pesii (type of var.) ("FT. Theobald); Tenasserim<br />
(Stoliczka) ; Slandalay {Stoliczka).<br />
Var. orientalis {FMlippi), Zeits. Malak. 1848, p. 192, •'' China " ?<br />
Ampullwia scufatit, Phil. Couch.-Cab. ii, pi. 1, figs. 4, 5 [not of<br />
Moussoii] ; Nevill, Hand List, pt. 2, p. 5.<br />
Original description:—Te.sta obovata, subimperforata, satis<br />
teiiui, obsolete fasoiata, ssepius unicolore; epidermide nitida,<br />
olivaoea; anfractibus convexis, superiiis subaDgiilatis; spira<br />
dimidiam aperturam fere sequante, plerumque erosa; apertara<br />
ovato-obloiiga, semilunari ; operculo ealcareo.<br />
Alt. 39'5, diam. 36 mm.<br />
Aperture : alt. 30 mm.<br />
Hob. China ; Bassein, Arakan (Blanford). -^<br />
198. Pila dolioides (Reeve).<br />
Pila dolioides (Reeve), Con. Icon., Ampul. 1856, sp 75; Nevill,<br />
Hand List, p. 7.<br />
Original description:—Shell ovate, thin, ventricose, narrowly<br />
umbilic.ited, spire short, sharp; whorls convex, shining, impressed<br />
at the sutures, last whorl largely swollen and expanded; ash-olive,<br />
obscurely red-bauded, bands linear, irregular ; aperture very large,<br />
open, columellar lip reflected.<br />
Alt. 56, diam. 47 mm. (dimensions of fig. 75 a in Conch. Icon.).<br />
Hah. Bombay (Reeve); Ceylon (^NevilT).<br />
199. Pila moesta (Beeve).<br />
Pila mcesta (Reeve), Con. Icon., Ampul, p. 92 ; H. & T., C. I.<br />
pi. 115, %. 6.<br />
Original description:—Shell ovately globose, narrowly umbilicated,<br />
spire rather exserted ; whorls slightly flattened at the upper<br />
part, then rounded, smooth ; dull olive, encircled with narrow<br />
darker bands ; aperture lunar-ovate, lip yellowish-white within.<br />
Alt. 36, diam. 30-75 mm. (taken from tig. in Conch. Icon.).<br />
Hah. Ceylon.<br />
"A dull greenish-olive species, of globose form, narrowly<br />
compressly umbilicated, encircled vvith numerous faint bands,<br />
irregular in width, but mostly linear."<br />
200. Pila cinerea (Reeve)<br />
Ma Pila cinerea (Reeve), Con. Icon., Amptd. sp. 94; H. & T., C. I.<br />
pi. 113, fig.].<br />
Original description :—Shell globose, thin, rather inflated