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17 o. Vivipara variata {Frcmenfeld). 



Vivipara variata (Fraiienfeld), Verhandl. zool.-bot., Ctes. Wien 

 1862, p. 1163 (as Faludma) ■ II. & T., C. I. pi. 115, fg. 8. 



Shell somewliat conic, narrowly deeply umbilicate ; olive-green, 

 slightly polished ; whorls 5?, not very convex, the last descending 

 behind the aperture, marked with w.eak growth lines and sculpt 

 tured with reguhir, Tiumerous, very fine, punctate, spiral strijc ; 

 suture well impressed; aperture pyriform ; interior of shell of a 

 dirty bluish colour; labruin polished, black. 



Alt. 21, diam. 16 mm. 



Aperture: alt. 12, diam. 10 mm. 



Hub. Pondicherry. 



Var. pseudohelicina, Kohelt, in Martini & Chemnitz, Conch - 

 Cab. 19u8, p. 293, pi. 59, figs. 5-8. 



Viripara dismnilis subsp. helidformis, Nevill, Hand List, pt. 2, p. 30 

 (nee Frauenfeld). 



Orujinal description : — Testa subobtecte rimata, ovata, solida, 

 subtiliter striatula, sculptura spirali nulla, olivaceo-viridis ; spira 

 erosa, sutura linearis. Aufractns, superst. 4-5 convexi, inferi 

 supra subangulati, ultimus ad peripheriam obsolete augnlatus, 

 basi convexus, antice baud descendens, Apertma vix obliqua' 

 sat anguste ovata, supra leviter acuminata, intus cceruleo-albida,' 

 late, nigro-limbata ; margo columellaris leviter incrassatulus. 



Alt. 20, diam. 17 mm. 



Aperture: alt. 11, diam. 9 mm. 



Hab. Pegu. 



Yar. peguensis, Kobelt, in Martini & Chemnitz, Conch.-Cab. 

 1909, p. 378, pi. 58, figs. 7, 8. 



Original description :— Testa anguste et subobtecte umbilicata, 

 ovato-globosa, spira breviter coniia, erosa, saturate viridescente- 

 fusca, hie iHic anguste nigro strigaia, anfractibus convexis, sutura 

 ])rofunda discretis, ultimus ujagnns, obsoletissime angulatus, circa 

 umbilicum subcompressus ; peristoma late nigrolimbatum. Oper- 

 culum crassiusculum, extus limbo incrassata, intus disco pedali 

 jjrominente nuinitum. 



Alt. 21, diam. 17 mm. 



Aperture : alt. 12, diam. lO mm. 



Hab. Moulmein, Pegu. 



17G. Vivipara ce^\on\cB.(Dohrn). 



Vivipara ceylonica (Dolirn), P. Z. S. 1857, p. 123 (as Pa/itf/jW) ; 

 Keeve, Con. Icon., Paludina, sp. 32 (as 1\ ceyUmica); II. & T., 

 C. I. pi. 77, fif>s. 1, 2, 1\ ceylaiiica. 



Original descri^ition-.—Tesia o\ato-coiiica, perforata, solidiiiscula, 



