MELANIID^. 287 



** horn "-colour, girt on the last whorl with three distinct, broad, 

 dark-brown bands, showing clearly within the aperture ; spirally 

 regularly striated, below the slight subangulation of each whorl, 

 the striae prominent, with a minutely " quasi punctate " ap- 

 pearance, the above becoming somewhat obsolete ; covered more 

 or less with rather long and well-developed hairs ; whorls nine, 

 the apical three exceedingly minute, white and sculptureless, 

 the next five slightly subangulate a little above the middle, 

 cylindrically turreted, last whorl rather tumidly convex, about 

 the same length as the spire ; aperture rather small, vertically 

 ovate, peristome acute, columella thickened, dark violet coloured, 

 inflected obliquely, at base sharply angulate. Operculum as 

 above described ; it seems to me slightly convex. 



6 Mutlah River at Port Canning; coll. Colonel Gr. B. Mainwaring, J. 

 Wood-Mason, Esq., and Dr. F. Stoliczka. 



Found by Colonel Mainwaring in brackish water on trunks of 

 trees submerged at high tide. 



Sub-family PALUDOMIN^, Stoliczka. 



Genus PALUDOMUS, Swainson, 



Treat. Malac. 1840, p. 340, types Melania glohulosa, conica and retusa. 

 Gray ; Layard, Ann. Mag. 1835, type restricted Faludomus conica, 

 Gray. 



1. Paludomus conica. 



Melania conica, Grap, Gri^th's Cuvier, 1834, and Hanley, Con. Misc. fig. 34 

 [type'] ; fide Hanhy, Con. Indica, p. 50 = P. rudis. Reeve, P. Z. S., 

 1852, Loc, ? ; = Melania crassa, Busch, Phil. Abb. 1847, Bengal [not 

 Pal. crassa of IsseV] ; vars. ? = P. maurus, Bv., P, Z. S., 1852, Ganges, 

 and P. paludinoides, Bv., SiJckim. 



7 Gowhatty ; coll. Museum Collector. 



Resembles M. Brot's pi. II, fig.a4. 



20 Teria Ghat, Mangken Rv., Digong Rv. and Jaintia Hills j coll. Colonel 

 H. H. Godwin-Austen. 



Well represented by M. Brot's pi. II, fig. 1 3. 

 6 Sylliet ; ex c. As. Soc. Bengal. 



