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prominent, almost varicose, eight of them on the last whorl, 

 disappearing towards the base ; very pale green, with no markings 

 except a subobsolete brown band at base." {Nevill.) 



Fig. I.— Tiara {Mclanoides)jugicosttf, Bens. (type). X •-'• 



Alt. 12, diam. 6 mm. 



Hah. Tenasserim Elver {Conch. Lid.); Myadoung, Burma 

 {Nevill). 



47. Tiara (Melanoides) godwini {Brot). 



Melanoides lianlerii, Godwiii-Austeu, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 514, pi. 30, 



tier, o (^as Melanoides) : II. & T., C. I. pi. 110, fig. 5. 

 Ti(tra (Melanoides) godicini (Brot), in Conch.-Cah. 18iO, p. 90, 

 pi. 10, fio-. .'5. 

 Original description : — Shell turreted, colour rich dark chestnut- 

 brown ; spire rather acuminate, rapidly decreasing ; apex eroded^; 

 suture impressed but sliglitly, but strongly marked ; whorls 5 

 (without the apical), flat, sharply angular above with a snigle row 

 of well-defined small tubercles on the angular margin ; body-whorl 

 large, well rounded below, distinctly corded at base near the 

 columellar margin ; aperture vertical, ovate, very slightly effused 

 at base ; within pale grey, ^ith three or more red-brow n bands. 

 Alt. 47, diam. 25 mm. 

 Aperture: alt. 22, diam. 12 mm. 

 Hah. Diyuog Kiver, North Cachar Hills. 



Subgenus PACHYCHILUS. 

 Pachychilns, Lea, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 170. 

 Type, P. cximincjii, Lea [as gen. n.] ; Central America. 

 Ranqe. W. Indies ; C. & S. America; Tropical Asia. 

 Original description: — Testa conica. Apertura ovata, basi 

 intecro. Labrum crassum. Collumella superne incrassata. 

 Operculum suborbiculare, corueum. 



48. Tiara (Pachychilns) limborgi {HanUy). 



Tiara {Pachichilus) lindiorgi (llanley), Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv, 

 1878, p. 580 ; Nevill, Hand List, pt. 2, p. 269. 



