MEL AN I ID^. 209 



Show no trace of longitadinal ribbing. Long. 10, diam. 

 S^ mil. 



subvar. bicolorata. 



12 W. of Shiraz ; coll. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [17i, 8]. 



subvar. acuticarinata. 



2 Persia; coll. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [13i, 7^]. 



M. Bourguignat's pi. XV, fig. 25, Malac. Alger, gives a fair 

 idea of this interesting form, whicb, however, is smaller, not 

 decollate, of paler colour, obsoletelj banded, with the keel even 

 more developed. 



subvar. decoUata. 



Fhilippi, I. c.,jig. 7 ; ? M.fasciolata, Parreyss. 



20 Persia ; coll. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [19, 9]. 



A very distinct, thin, eroded, slightly decollate variety, whorls 

 usually less convex than in the quoted figure ; under the lens 

 minutely, flexuously striate ; two or three show distinct, longi- 

 tudinal, distant ribbing as well, much as in Rossm., fig. 1883 

 [M. tingitana, Mori.]. It is perhaps as closely allied to Issell's 

 M. dorice, — seems, indeed, to be a connecting link. 



var. dorige. 



Melanopsis Doriae, Issel, Moll. Persia, 1865, long. 24, diam. 8 mil. — Kerman, 

 30 Kerman [S. Persia] ; coll. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



From the same spot as Prof. Issel's type, with which they 

 agree exactly. 



subvar. carinifera. 

 10 Kerman j coll. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



A very interesting form, with a raised keel running along 

 the suture. 



