242 MELANIIUiE. 



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

 subgranulose variety, approaciiing M. crebra, Lea ; of a uniform 

 straw colour ; spire not much produced ; last wliorl convex. 



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

 var. layardi. 



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



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

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

 16 Kandy ; coll. G. Nevill, Esq. 



Fine specimens of the typical form of M. layardi. 



12 Kandy ; coll. Q. 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; coll. H. P. Blanford, Esq. 



5 S. Canara ; coll. Colonel K, 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. lOf mil. — 7 whorls, 



var. tamsii. 



Melania tamsii, I)ohrn, Zeits. Mai., 1845, S. Antao. 



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



Dohru. 



var. tigrina [? dist. sp.]. 



Melania tigrina, Sutton, J. A. S. B., 1849, Afghanistan, and Pinjore below 

 Simla, iSfc, Con. Indica, pi. 110, Jigs. 1—2 [bene']. 



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



