A NEW SPECIES OF TAIA FROM THE CHINDWIN 

 VALLEY, UPPER BURMA. 



By N. Annandale, D.Ss., F.A.S.B., Director, 

 Zoological Survey of India. 



The shell described here has no direct connection with the Inle Lake, 

 but it will, I think, be convenient to include a description of it in the 

 volume in which the genus is discussed at length (see pp. 123 — 125). 

 Th3 original specimens reached me, through the Geological Survey of 

 India, from Mr. A. P. Morris some time after my account of the Inle 

 molluscs was in print. 



Taia incisa, sp. nov. 



The shell is thick, moderately small and sharply conical ; it was 

 evidently marked when fresh with two broad brown or purple spiral 

 bands, but the epidermis has entirely disappeared from all the speci- 

 mens examined and they have assumed a chalky whiteness. The 



Photographs of type-spcciiucn of Ta,u incisa. (x2). 

 Red powder has been dusted on the surface of the shell in order to show up tho 

 sculpture in the photographs. 



suture is oblique and deeply impressed ; the whorls are swollen and 

 distinct, 5i in number. The spire is short and decrease^ rapidly towards 

 the apex; it is less than half the length of the body whorl however 

 measured. The mouth of the shell is large, obhquc and prominent, 

 oval or slightly ovoid in shape, with the outer lip slightly expanded out 

 wards and forwards. The columellar callus is expanded and thickened 



