38 TIARID.E. 



of each whorl, the stria3 proinineut, with a minutely ''quasi 

 punctate" appeai-ance, the above becoming somewluit obsolete ; 

 covered more or less with rather long and well-developed hairs ; 

 whorls nine, the apical three exceedingly minute, \\hite and sculp- 

 tureless, the next live slightly subangulate a little above tlie middle, 

 cyliudrically turreted, last whorl rather tumidly convex, about the 

 same length as the spire; aperture rather small, vertically ovate, 

 peristome acute, columella thickened, dark violet coloured, inflected 

 obliquely, at base sharply angulate. Operculum as above described ; 

 it seems to me slightly convex. 



Alt. 9-5, diam. 4 mm. 



Hah. Miitlah Eiver at Port Canning, in brackish water on trunks 

 .of trees submerged at high tide [Maimvaring). 



Subfamily PALUDOMlNiE. 



Shell solid, ovate or ovately fusiform, imperforate, without 

 basal canal, smooth or spirally striate or lirate. 



Distrihution. India, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula, Borneo. 



The above Mas introduced by Stoliczka in his Pal. Ind., Cretac. 

 Fauna S. India, p, 207, but appears to be a nomen nudum, hence 

 the above description by the present autho]-. 



Genus PALUDOMUS. 

 Pahidovms, Swainsou, Treat. Malac. 1840. p. -UO. 

 Type, Melanla ghhidosa, Gray ; Ceylon. 



Range. Ceylon ; India ; Malay Peninsula ; Borrec. 



Shell oblong-globose, strong; spire shorter than the aperture; 

 inner lip very thick. 



The above may be supplemented by Benson's amended des- 

 cription (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, xvii, 1S56, p. 495) : — 



Testa plerumque imperforata, globoso-ovata, ovato-oblonga, 

 vel ovato-acuta, fere solida, glabra, spiraliter sulcata, vel lirata, 

 interdum spinuloso-costata, epidermide cornea induta ; apertura 

 subverticali, ovato-acuta, callo parietali munita, margine columel- 

 lari, crasso, arcuato, basali integro, interdum subeffuso. 



Operculo corneo, concavo ; nucleo subspirali insulari, sub- 

 mediauo, ad siuistram sito, srriis lamellatis conceutricis partem 

 majorem disci usurpantibus, circumdato. 



64. Paludomus globulosa {Gray). 



Paludomus globulosa (Gray), Griff, ed. Cuvier, Moll. pi. 14, fig. G 

 (as Melani(i); Reeve, Con. Icon., Palud. sp. 4; II. & T., O.I. 

 pi. 123, fig. 5. 



Original, description : — Shell globular, solid, spire flatly depressed, 



