1921.] N. Annandale : The Genus Temnotaia. 295 



"Of T. fulva (Reeve) there is a single specimen in the Indian 

 Museum received in exchange from the late Mr. Sowerby out of 

 the type-series collected by lyombe Taylor in the Laos mountains. 

 It is 23 mm. long and 17 mm. in maximum breadth. I give below 

 a description of the only specimen of T. hhanwensis (Nevill) ; it is 

 labelled as the type of the subvariety hhamoensis in Nevill's hand- 

 writing and was referred to by Dr. Annandale in his recent paper 

 (Rcc. Ind. Mus. XIX, p. 115). 



The shell is thick, of moderate size and sharply conical; the 

 spire of the unique specimen is greyish, but the body- whorl is of a 

 uniform greyish-brown colour without spiral bands and with a 

 highly polished periostracum. The suture is somewhat oblique 

 and only moderately impressed; the whorls, which are swollen, 

 are subangulate along their upper margin, and 6^ in number. 

 The spire is short and decreases rapidly but irregularly towards 

 the apex ; it is about f the size of the body-whorl in dorsal view. 

 The body-whorl is distinctly angulate and shows fine, but distinct, 

 vertical and somewhat curved ridges corresponding to the regions 

 of growth. The mouth of the shell is large, suboblique and pro- 

 minent, somewhat ovoid in shape, with the outer lip sharp and 

 not at all expanded outwards. The columellar callus is of the same 

 type as in T. iitcisa, but is proportionately less broad; it is convex 

 and highly polished. 



The unique type measures 26 mm. in length and 17 mm. in 

 breadth, the aperture measures 15 mm. X 13 mm. [B. Prashad.]" 



