Land and Freshwater Mollusca of India Including South Arabia Baluchistan Afghanistan Kashmir Nepal Murmah Pegu Tenasserim Malay Peninsul Ceylon and Other Islands of the Indian Ocean. Supplementary to Messrs. Theobald and Hanley's Conchologia Indica. Vol.II-Text

as type and would indicate a close relation both in the form of the shell and the characters of the animal to Helicarion." I have since shown when describing the animal of Durgella levicula (Proc. [...] In his Catalogue of the Pulmonifera in the British Museum ' p. 73 although he makes H. citrina the type of the above genus in the description and synonymy of H. vitrinoides p. 81 we find the P. Z.'S. [...] The right shell-lobe small the left is narrowly reflected over the edge of the peristome and at the basal side gives off a short tongulike process ; the right dorsal lobe is narrow elongate and extends to the columellar margin near the great retractor muscles ; the left dorsal lobe has two distinct positions as viewed from the outside (Plate XXV. [...] " I have placed a mark of doubt to the generic name because I do not find in the description of the genus Helix any alasion made to the process on the tail of ray specimen nor to the two tentacula proceeding from the right side of the animal. [...] Body and tentacles of the same pale grey tint; the mantle is very pale ochraceous in marked contrast with the rest of the body ; the pallial margin is narrow and ill-defined and the surface of the animal peculiarly smooth.