. Mollusca ... ides convex. Sutureshallow, adpressed. Whorls 6, rapidly increasing, the last rounded;aperture broadly ovate, oblique, milky white within; peristomeacute, sinuous above and slightly so below, much reflected atumbilical margin ; columellar margin very oblique and descending. Major diam. Minor diam. Alt. axis. Alt. Largest size: 23-5 200 9-4 7-8 mm. Smaller size: 188 16-2 8-0 5-8 „ Hob. Shengorh Peak, Dafla Hills, 7000 ft. {Oodwin-Austen). STAFFOEDIA. 297 It was an abundant species in the Dafla Hills, varying much incolour aud size, often being of a pale ochraceous-grey tint
. Mollusca ... ides convex. Sutureshallow, adpressed. Whorls 6, rapidly increasing, the last rounded;aperture broadly ovate, oblique, milky white within; peristomeacute, sinuous above and slightly so below, much reflected atumbilical margin ; columellar margin very oblique and descending. Major diam. Minor diam. Alt. axis. Alt. Largest size: 23-5 200 9-4 7-8 mm. Smaller size: 188 16-2 8-0 5-8 „ Hob. Shengorh Peak, Dafla Hills, 7000 ft. {Oodwin-Austen). STAFFOEDIA. 297 It was an abundant species in the Dafla Hills, varying much incolour aud size, often being of a pale ochraceous-grey tint. OnToruputu Peak it occurred also with the same characteristicsculpture, but thinner in structure. Animal. Pore part of foot and head, as well as the tentacles,dark slate ; extremity of foot pointed (no gland visible, fig. 90, B),pale grey, edged light fleshy; sole of foot dark orange; mantlevery slightly reflected in front, with no tongue-shaped process. Length 2-0 ; tentacles 0-5 ; shell, major diam. B. [l?ig. 90.—Staffordia daflaensis. Animal from right side, showing the right dorsal lobe. X 34. Animal from left side, the left dorsal lobe and part of the branchial wall removed, showing the male organ and position of its retractor muscle attachment. X and extremity of foot, from drawings from of foot, from spirit-specimen. X , X 9, and teeth of radula, X 270. Generative organs, X 35. , coronal gland ; d, X 35. Krst specimen dissected.] 298 zonitidjB. The only part of tliis original description which was wrongrelates to the tongue-shaped process or shell-lobes: these wereseen to be present in the second specimen soaked out; they aresmall, particularly the right, and might easily be overlooked inlife. This had clearly a pointed foot, not divided below as inMacrochlamys, with an indistinct central fold, no peripodialgrooves, very dark grey, a rather smooth surface with a palenarrow peripodial border. Prom the t
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