PALUDOMUS. 63 



costis sqiiamatis spiraliter cinsulata, supra medium obsolete 

 cai'inata ; apertura semicircularis, alba, intus caerulescens. 



Alt. 35, diam. 32 mm. 



Aperture : alt. 29, diam. 21 mm. 



Hah. Ceylon. 



128. Paludomiis (Tanalia) similis, Laijiwd. 



Fahtdxmms {Tanalia) similis, Layard, P. Z.S. 1854, p. 92; H. & T., 

 C.l.pl. 122, %. 1. 



Original description : — Shell I'ather <^lobose ; axis 8 lines, diam. 

 6 Hues. Spire short, exserted. Whorls rounded, I'entricose, 

 spirally grooved with close-set, fine, minutely decussated striae. 

 Colour rich olive-yellow, profusely marked with longitudinal, 

 wavy, darlv lines, interrupted by four or five fine transverse bands 

 of tiie same colour. Aperture : the dark markings of the shell 

 show through, and are dimmed by a bluish haze ; columella lip 

 white, stained on the outside edge with dark brown, which runs 

 round the outer lip in a thin band. 



Hah. A mountain torrent at Kaudangamoa, near Eatnapoora, 

 Ceylon. 



129. Paludoums (Tanalia) melanostoma, Hanley 4" Theobald. 



Paludojnus ( Tanalia) melanostoma, llanlev & Theobald, Cou. lud. 

 pi. 121, figs. 8, 9 (figs. only;. 



Shell oblong-ovate, solid, dark yellowish-brown, painted with 

 oblique, transverse, zigzag bands of black ; remaining whorls 3, 

 rapidly increasing, the last hirge, sculptured with more or less 

 beaded, spiral lira) ; suture impressed ; columella margin excavated, 

 white within, stained with brownish-black without, exteuding 

 upwards into a thickish, well-defined, parietal callus \\hich has 

 the eame colouring and reaches to the upper margin of the 

 labrum ; labrum edged with a variegated baud of brown and 

 yellowish white just within, acute; aperture ovate; interior of 

 shell white. 



Alt. 25, diam. maj. 21*25, diam. miu. 15'2o mm. 



Aperture : alt. 20, diam. 11-25 mm. 



Hah. Ceylon. 



Type in British Museum. 



Subgenus STOMATODON. 

 Stomatodon, Benson, A. M. X. 11. ser. 3, x, 1862, p. 414. 

 Type, Paludomun stomatodon, Benson ; Travancore. 



Range. Travancore. 



For description see that of Paludomus (S.) stomalodon given 

 below. 



