. Mollusca ... Mollusks. l04 OtClOPSOBItJE. whilst on the other hand in my single operculated specimen of Pt. nanus it is only slightlv raised, scarcely concave, etc. " Alt. 8|, diam. 16 mill'." (Nevill.) Hub. India : Anamullay Hills (Beddome).. Fig. 17.—Pterocyclus cyclophoroideus. (X 2.) This species has hitherto remained unfigured. The accompany- ing illustration is from a specimen in the British Museum ; it measures: alt. 8, major diam. 14 mm. The peripheral band is not constantly absent as Nevill surmised. Var. subluteola, O. Nevill. Pterocyclus cyclophoroideus, var. subluteola,


. Mollusca ... Mollusks. l04 OtClOPSOBItJE. whilst on the other hand in my single operculated specimen of Pt. nanus it is only slightlv raised, scarcely concave, etc. " Alt. 8|, diam. 16 mill'." (Nevill.) Hub. India : Anamullay Hills (Beddome).. Fig. 17.—Pterocyclus cyclophoroideus. (X 2.) This species has hitherto remained unfigured. The accompany- ing illustration is from a specimen in the British Museum ; it measures: alt. 8, major diam. 14 mm. The peripheral band is not constantly absent as Nevill surmised. Var. subluteola, O. Nevill. Pterocyclus cyclophoroideus, var. subluteola, G. Nevill, J. A. S. B. 1, 1881, p. 146. Differs from the type in being of a light yellow instead of a darkish brown, scarcely if at all streaked or mottled. Hah. India : Anamullay Hills (Beddome). 148. Pterocyclus feddeni, Blanford. Pterocyclus feddeni, Blanlbrd, J. A. S. B. x:\xiv, 1865, ]i. 83 ; Hanley & Theobald, Couch. Ind. 1870, pi. 5, fig'. 9 ; 1875, pi. 134, fig. 1 : Theobald, Cat. Sliells Brit. India, 1876, p. 38 ; G. Nevill, .1. A. S. B. xlvi, 1877, p. 29 ; Hand List, i, 1878, p. 1>(JL'; Pfeiffer, Men. I'neiim. Suppl 3, 1878, p. 53; G. Nevill, in Anderson, Zool. Res. Exp. W. Yunnan, 1879, p. 890 ; Kobelt & MoUendoifl, Nachr. Deuts. Malak, Ges. xxix, 1897, p. 113; id., Cat. Pneum. 1899, p. 25 ; Kobelt, Uas Tierreicb, Lief. 16, 1902, p. 166; id., , Cyolopboridae, ii, 1909, p. 734, pi. 106, Jig. 9. Original description :—" Shell widely umbilicated, convexly depressed,smooth, finely striated,rat]ier thin,elegantly marked with alternating transverse zig-zag stripes of white and chestnut, and with a moderately broad submedian band of darker colour; spire nearly flat; apex but very slighty pi'ofrnded ; suture deep. Whorls 4^, convex; the last rounded, descending towards. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustratio


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