. Mollusca ... posed. Total length 1-25, mantle 060, mantle to extremity of foot0-50, tentacles 0-20. ffab. Under Toraputu Peak at 4000 feet. Found on decayingwood during damp weather. (Oodivin-Austen.) The animal, well figured in the original paper, is evidentlysimilar to 0. hensoni and C. succinea, and has the same papilloseshell-lobes. [281. Cryptaustenia durrangensis, Godwin-Austen (Austenia), MolInd. ii, 1907, p. 172, pi. 108, figs. 5-5 b (shell), pi. Ill, figs. 7-7 c(part animal and radula). Durrang District, Assam. Shell depressedly globose, not umbilicated; sculpture none,surface gloss


. Mollusca ... posed. Total length 1-25, mantle 060, mantle to extremity of foot0-50, tentacles 0-20. ffab. Under Toraputu Peak at 4000 feet. Found on decayingwood during damp weather. (Oodivin-Austen.) The animal, well figured in the original paper, is evidentlysimilar to 0. hensoni and C. succinea, and has the same papilloseshell-lobes. [281. Cryptaustenia durrangensis, Godwin-Austen (Austenia), MolInd. ii, 1907, p. 172, pi. 108, figs. 5-5 b (shell), pi. Ill, figs. 7-7 c(part animal and radula). Durrang District, Assam. Shell depressedly globose, not umbilicated; sculpture none,surface glossy, crossed transversely by fine lines of growth ; colourstraw-colour; spire very low, rounded, suture shallow ; whorls2|, expansive ; aperture very oval, oblique ; peristome thin,narrowly edged with white, columellar margin nearly vertical. Size: major diam. 105, alt. axis 38 mm. Animal (from a soaked specimen). Colour olivaceous withmottlings on the foot; the membrane of the branchial cavity has- 184 ZONITID^.. [Fig. 64. A. Cryptausienia verrucosa, yiewed from above and the right side: drawn from life. B. Girasia cinerea, drawn from life. 0. Ausienia nagaensis: eketch from life of upper side of the mantle,and the right side to show the shell-lobes and shell of same. D. Cryptogirasia rubra: the animal from different sides, extremity offoot enlarged, drawn from life ; shell magnified and natural size.] 185 a margin of black on the side of the elongate kidney and thevisceral sac is darkly mottled. The mucous gland linear, extremityof foot square. Shell-lobes black, the right shell-lobe broad andspreading along the side of the body-whorl; the left shell-lobealso a broad lappet and elongately triangular in shape. The maleorgan resembles that of Austenia gigas, and the amatorial organ islarger. Jaw with a very small central projection. Eadula has the formula : 70 . 2 15 . 1 . 15 . 2 . 70 87 . 1 . 87 ■ The central tooth and the admedian teeth are of the usual form :


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