XXII. D E S C R I P TI O N vS OF TWO NEW 

 SHELLS FROM S O IT T H INDIA. 



By H. B. Preston, F.Z.S. 



Paludomus annandalei, sp. nov. 



Shell colloidal, upper whorls eroded, solid, dark olivaceous 

 l>rown, a paler yellowish brown band appearing at the periphery, 

 above this obscurely painted with regular, transverse, vertical, deep 

 chestnut flammules and below with v&xy oblique flammules of the 

 same colour; remaining whorls about 3, sculptured with revolving, 

 spiral lirae rather coarser just below the sutures and disappearing 

 altogether or becoming obsolete towards the periphery, but re- 

 appearing on the base of the shell, the interstices between the 

 lirae having a somewhat punctate appearance; sutures lightly im- 

 pressed; columella arched, white and diffused into a minutely 

 granular callus which joins the upper lip and is thickened almost 

 into a nodule above; peristome acute, scarcely serrated; interior 

 of shell bluish white, showing the rows of flammules distinctly; 

 operculum spirally laminiferous, with subcentral nucleus. 



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V %Sv' 



B CD 



Fig. I.— a, B, Paludomus aunandolei, sp. nov. ; C, Sculpture of same en- 

 larged ; D, operculum of same. 



The dimensions of the three specimens taken as the type series 

 are as follows : — 



(I) (2) (3) 



Altitude . . . . 24 mm. 22 mm. 21*5 mm. 



Diam., major . . 18 ,, 17 ,, 16 ,, 



Aperture, alt. 16 ,, 13 ,, 12-5 ,. 



diam. .. 9'5 ., ^ ^ ^ >> 



