242 MELANIID^. 



Sent to me as " M. tuherculata, var." It is a very interesting 

 subgranulose variety, approacliing M. crehra, Lea ; of a uniform 

 straw colour ; spire not mucli produced ; last whorl convex. 



Long. 22, diam. 7f mil. ; anfr. 6-7. 

 var. layardi. 



Melania layardi, Dohrn, P. Zool. S. 1858, Ceylon. 



5 Ceylon; coll. E. L. Layard, Esq. [A. S. B.]. 

 16 Colombo and Balapiti ; coll. G. Nevill, Esq. 

 16 Kandy ; coll, G. Nevill, Esq. 



Fine specimens of tlie typical form of M. layardi. 



12 Kandy j coll. G. Nevill, Esq. 



Living with the preceding, separable by the more or less 

 well developed, longitudinal sculpture ; the whorls seem as a 

 rule more convexly swollen. Can this be a sexual difference ? 



1 Kandy ; coll. G. Nevill, Esq. 



A remarkable, attenuate and contracted, *' depauperate " 

 specimen. Longitudinal ribbing distinct. 



5 Kandy j coll. H. F. Blanford, Esq. 



5 S. Canara ; coll. Colonel E,. H. Beddome. 



The first specimens, I believe, of this very characteristic 

 variety described from Continental India. They are a very 

 fine form — long. 33, diam. 10| mil. — 7 whorls. 



var. tamsii. 



Melania tamsii, Dohrn, Zeits. Mai., 1845, S. Antao. 



6 S. Anta& and S. Nicolau [Cape de Verde Islands] ; coll. Dr. H. 



Dohrn. 



var. tigrina [? dist. sp.]. 



Melania tigrina, Button, J. A. S. £., 1849, Afghanistan, and Finjore below 

 Simla, ^e., Con. Indica, pi. 110, figs. 1—2 [bene]. 



Quetta [Beluchistan] ; coll. Captain F. W. Hutton [A. S. B.]. 



