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iLA. 103<br />

204. Pila alucinans (Sowerbij).<br />

Pila alucinans (Sovverby), Proc. Malac. Soc. ix, p. 63 (Rg. in text)<br />

(as Ampullaria).<br />

Original description :—Testa late turbinata, mediocriter umbilicata,<br />

fusco-olivacea, fasdis numerosis angustis nigro-i'uscis oriiata,<br />

Jongitudinaiiter irregiilariter plit-ata et striata, striis transversis<br />

siibtiiissiiiiis decussa'ta; spira brevis; anfractus convex!, supra<br />

planulati; ultimus latiuscuhis, superne rotunde angulatus, supra<br />

ans^ulutn leviter depressus, infra angulum rotunde convexus,<br />

basim versus leviter contractus; apertura latiuscula, intus fasciata ;<br />

peristoma tenue.<br />

Alt. 23, diam. 23 mm.<br />

.Aperture: alt. 22, diam. 12 mm.<br />

hah. Ceylon.<br />

205. Pila winkleyi (Pihbry).<br />

Pi/a ivin/deyi (Pilsbiy), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelpliia, liii,<br />

1901, p. lad, pi. 5, tigs. 2, 3 (as Ampullaria).<br />

Original description :^8hell narrowly umbilicate, globose ;<br />

yellowish-olive, uniform or with few or numerous dusky olive<br />

spiral bands, the earlier whorls eroded, blackish or ruddy. Surface<br />

smooth, somewhat shining, under a strong lens seen to be very<br />

densely, microscopically striated spirally, the striis minutely granulose<br />

; spire low-conic; sutures impressed, the whorls flattened<br />

below them, elsewhere symmetrically convex. Aperture vertical,<br />

semi-rotund, narrower above, reddish-tawny and sometimes banded<br />

within, hecoming white near the lip; peristome a trifle expanded<br />

below, white or dirty yellowish, the outer margin equably curved,<br />

columella concave, blunt and more or less thickened but not<br />

i-etlexed, parietal callus rather thin, white, thinner within. Operculum<br />

thick and solid, concave externally, and partially covered<br />

with a thin, yellowish-brown cuticle. Inside bluish, with a micalike<br />

gleam, the scar of attachment sunken, the columellar side<br />

concentrically striate, the enclosed eminence narrow, curved and<br />

smooth.<br />

Alt. 58, diam. 50 ram.<br />

Aperture : alt. maj. 43 mm.<br />

Hah. Henzada, Burma ( Winlcley).<br />

Types in Coll. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia.

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