TIARA. 85 



A'ar. semigranosa {c d. BuscJt), jS'evlll. Hand List, p. 277. 

 Mdania semic/ranosa, v. d. Buscli, Pliilippi, Abljild. i, 1884, Java. 



" Differs conspicuously by tlie shorter spire, and the more 

 tuiuidlv veutricose last whorl, M-hich is also more produced, etc. 

 Long. iU. 



" Diam. 15 mm ; apex eroded. 



" Hah. Near Moulmein. 



" Long. IS, diam. S| mm. INIay be considered as a connecting 

 link with M. hatana, Gld. — Pegu. 



'•'A fine form with turriculately planulate whorls. Long. ;iO, 

 diam. 13 mm. — Meetan, Tenassernn Province ; Teria Ghat?" 

 {Nevill.) 



Subvar. pergraiiosa, Nevill, tom. cit. 



"Long, lo.j, diam. 7_| mm. Granulose sculpture very pro- 

 minent." {NeviU.) 

 Hah. Port Canning. 



A^ar. flavida {Dunler), Xevill, tom. cit. p. 277 ; Philippi, Abbild. 

 i, 1884, p. 164, pi. 3, fig. 15. 



Original description: — Testa parva, oblongo-pyramidata, solidula, 

 flavida, diaphana, anfractibus seuis plauulatis, transversim sulcatis: 

 apertura subelliptica. 



Alt. 12, diam. 4-5 mm. 



A pale yellowish variety originally described as a species with- 

 out locality, it is a common Javan form, Indian specimens of which, 

 according to Xevill, have the spire more subcylindrically produced 

 than those from Java. 



Hah. Teria Ghat (Stoliczl-a). 



Subgenus PLOTIA. 

 Plotia, il. & A. Adams, Gen. llec. Moll. 1854, p. 295. 



Tyfe, Jlelania spimdosa, Lamarck = M. scahra, Midler ; S. Asia, 

 llaiKje. S. Asia, 3Ialaysia antl Tropical Islands of Indian and 



Pacific Oceans. 



Orvjinal description :— Shell ovate, fusiform ; whorls spinose, 



transversely sulcate ; aperture elongate, simple in front. 



60. Tiara (^Plotia) scabra {HUUer). 



Tiara {Plotin) scabra (Millie r) (as Buccinum scabra), Hist. \evm. 



n, ]). l:3G: Chemn. Couch.-Cab. figs. 1259, 1260, badly as {Helix 



scabra) ; Biug. Enc. ^leth., Vers, i, p. 330 (as Bulimus scabra) ; 



Desh. ed. Lam. Auim. s. Vert, ix, p. 44.j. 

 Helix aspera, Gmel. Syst. Nat. lig. o056 ; Dillw. Cat. ii, p. 050; 



Wood, lud. Testae, pi. 34, fifc. 141. 

 Melanin elct/tins, Ifeeve, Con. Icon., Mel. sp. 178 ; H. & T., C. I. 



pi. 73, figs. 1-4 ; Brot, in Couch.-Cab. 1877, pp. 206-209, pi. 27, 



tigs. 14, 14«-<', 15, 15 «. 



" Shell ovate, sometimes a little elongated, rather thin, brownish- 



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