TIAUA. 23 



costato-striato ; apertum subovali, antice vix effusa ; columella 

 rotundata, alba, fauce fasciatiin sublivida. 



Alt. 47'5, diani. 12-5 mm. 



Hah. Manko, Tavoy. 



Var. lanceolata (Hanle)/ (j' I'heohald), Conch. Ind. pi. 153, 

 fig. 1 ; Nevill, Hand List, pt. 2, p. 248. 



A slender form. 

 Alt. 6.'3, diam. 22-75 mm. 



Hub. Mandalay {Anderson) ; llenzada, Pegu {StoUczka) ; Thyet 

 Myo {H any er ford). 



Var. imbricata {Hanhy (J- Theobald), torn. cit. fig. 4 ; JSevill, 

 Hand List, pt. 2, p. 249. 



" In quite young specimens the ' imbricated ' sculpture can 

 scarcely be detected." {Nevill.) 

 Alt. Qb, diam. 25 mm. 

 Hub. Henzada (>S'<o/Jcr/irt) ; Yaylaymaw {Anderson). 



Var. solidiuscula, Nevill, Hand List, pt. 2, p. 249 ; Brot, 

 Conch. -Cab. ii, pi. 13, fig. 6 (as '' M. reevei [juv.] "). 



" . . . . Solid and light yellow coloured ; a quite young specimen 

 having a single broad brown belt on the middle of the last whorl.'' 

 {Nevill.) 



Alt. 4S, diam. IS mm. 



Hab. Pegu {StoUczka). 



39. Tiara (Melanoides) variabilis {Benson). 



Tiara (^Melanoides) variabilis (Benson), J. A. S. B. v, 1836, 

 pp. 746-747 ; Brot, in Conch .-Cab. 1875, pp. 85-87, pi. 10, figs. 1, 

 1 a-d; H. & T., C. I. pi. 109, figs. 2, -i, 5, 6. 



Original description : — Testa elougato-turrita, solida, olivacea vel 

 picea, sub epidermide albida ; anfractibus convexis transverse 

 liratis, longitudinaliter striatis et costatis ; costulis anfractus 

 ultimi superne nodulosis ; apice plerumque truncato ; suturis 

 excavatis. Apertura intus violacea, columellse basi sinuata. 



Hab. Goomty Kiver at Jonpur, Tolly's Nullah, near Calcutta. 



Var. A. Anfractuum inferiorum liris elevatis, nodulis eleva- 

 toribus. 



Hab. River Hooghli at Calcutta. 



Var. B. Liris, mediana excepta, obsoletis ; noduhs subspinosis 

 carinam humeralem coronantibus. 

 This is the var. sjyinosa, Benson. 



Var. C. Laevis liris costulisque obsoletis ; anfractus ultimi medio 

 subcarinato, adulti nodulis humeralibus frugaliter sparsis. 



