. Mollusca ... Fig. 14.—Ennsa plangunmda f, aperture -i-. Length S^, breadth 1\, length of aperture 1-|^ mm. Hab. Peninsula of India; Orissa (Theobald) ; Golconda Hills,near Vizagapatam and Eusellcoonda (Beddome) ; Nerbudda Valley,near Hashungabad. A smaller variety, with 5J whorls, 3 mm. long, was obtained byCol. Beddome from hills near Kurnool. This is the form figuredin the Conchol. Ind. pi. 160, fig. 3. I have seen a specimen of whatis probably a variety from Ceylon. The fine oblique costulationand sutural crenulation often disappear. II. Umbilicated. *50. Ennea moerchiana, Nev. (Roepstorf
. Mollusca ... Fig. 14.—Ennsa plangunmda f, aperture -i-. Length S^, breadth 1\, length of aperture 1-|^ mm. Hab. Peninsula of India; Orissa (Theobald) ; Golconda Hills,near Vizagapatam and Eusellcoonda (Beddome) ; Nerbudda Valley,near Hashungabad. A smaller variety, with 5J whorls, 3 mm. long, was obtained byCol. Beddome from hills near Kurnool. This is the form figuredin the Conchol. Ind. pi. 160, fig. 3. I have seen a specimen of whatis probably a variety from Ceylon. The fine oblique costulationand sutural crenulation often disappear. II. Umbilicated. *50. Ennea moerchiana, Nev. (Roepstorf MS.) J. A. S. B. 1, 1881,p. 130; Oodwin-Austen, P. Z. S. 1895, pp. 443, 450. Shell deeply but narrowly umbilicated, cylindrically ovate,subvertically rather distantly ribbed, white, solid; apex obtuselyconoidal; whorls 6|, convex, fourth and fifth broadest, last roundedat base, ascending in front, partly covering umbilicus; aperture. ig. 15.—Enma moerchiana \, and yiew of base. vertical, subaxial, rounded, parietal fold vertical, well developedanother strong but less prominent fold within right margin noother teeth ; peristome broadly reflected, deeply sinuate abovethedextral fold. Length 4|, breadth 2| mm. Hab. Centre of Great Nicobar. ZONITIDJE, 25 Family ZONITID^.Subfamily [The AriophantiiKe form a very distinct subfamily of the IndianMollusca, and are almost exclusively conHned to the Peninsulararea and Ceylon ; only two species are found extending a shortdistance northward into the Gaugetic delta, but have not beenrecorded from that of the Brahmaputra Eiver. The largest Indian
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