. Science-gossip . Fig. 42.—Plectopylis clathratula. honour of Godwin-Austen, who hascontributed so largely to our knowledge of thegenus. Plectopylis clathratula (figs. 42fl-^), from Ceylon,was described by Dr. Pfeiffer in the Zeitschriftfiir Malakozoologie, vii., (1850), p. 67. Itwas figured in Reeves Conchologia Iconica,t- 65, f. 336 (1852), in Martini und Chemnitzs Conchylien Cabinet, 2nd ed., iii., t. 127,ff. 17-20 (1853), and in Hanley and TheobaldsConchologia Indica, t. 132, ff. 1-4 (1875). described what he thought was a newspecies, under the name of Helix puteo

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. Science-gossip . Fig. 42.—Plectopylis clathratula. honour of Godwin-Austen, who hascontributed so largely to our knowledge of thegenus. Plectopylis clathratula (figs. 42fl-^), from Ceylon,was described by Dr. Pfeiffer in the Zeitschriftfiir Malakozoologie, vii., (1850), p. 67. Itwas figured in Reeves Conchologia Iconica,t- 65, f. 336 (1852), in Martini und Chemnitzs Conchylien Cabinet, 2nd ed., iii., t. 127,ff. 17-20 (1853), and in Hanley and TheobaldsConchologia Indica, t. 132, ff. 1-4 (1875). described what he thought was a newspecies, under the name of Helix puteola, in theAnnals and Magazine of Natural History (2),xii. (1853), p. 92, but he subsequently pointed outits identity with Dr. Pfeiffers species (loc. cit. (3),V. (i860), p. 247). It was also figured under nameby Reeve, op. cit., ,f. 1334(1854).Mr. G. Nevill (Hand List, p. 70) records P. clathratula,as in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, from Balapiat,Sikkim ; but I doubt the correctness of the identif

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