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CONCHOLOGIA INDICA. 



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us of the U. mutabilis of Lea (Obs. Unio, vol. 7), said 

 to be Australian. 



6, 7. U. Sikkimensis, Lea. See Plate XI. f. 4. 

 Assam.. ,' /fj^/,-, ' ■ ^c-., - 

 This species, formerly so .scarce, had been previously 

 figured by us from an uncharacteristic example. The 

 large variety (fig. 7) reminds one externally of Wyne- 

 gungaensis. 



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PLATE CVin. 

 PALUDOMUS. 



^.^^_^>^ * ^ /^l.,^ stomatodon, Benson, An. Nat. Hist. 18r>2 

 Cyfi't^tA'UCA.^L^ (ser. 3, vol. 10), p. 415 (as ? Tanalia). 



Near Cottyam, Travancore. 



2. P. rotunda, Blanford, J. Asi. Soc. Beng. 1870 

 (vol. 39, pt. 2), p. 9, pi. 3, f. 2. 



Travancore. 



3. P. laevis, Layard, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854, p. 89. 



Ceylon. 

 - 4. P. reticulata, Blanford, J. Asi. Soc. Beng. 1870 

 (vol. 39, pt. 2), p. 9, pi. 3^ f^.. -^ .«, 



/ 5. p. regulata, Benson, An. Nat. Hist. 1856 (ser. 2, 

 vol. 17), p. 496. 



Thyet Mio, Birmah. 



6. P. regulata, var. Benson. »> fl-c^uA,**-^^ .Km/. 

 Upper Birmah. '^ 'j^^/3. /S/^ ■ 



7. P. parva, Layard, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854, p. 90. 

 Ceylon. 



By some error the longitudinal brown marks (in 

 the type) were described as spiral. 



8. P. ornata, Benson, An. Nat. Hist. 1856 (ser. 2, 

 vol. 17), p. 496. 



Birmah. 



J m,*4/frm^'-«^. ^'^ ^- ^- labiosa, Benson, An. Nat. Hist. 1856 (ser. 2, 

 -^ p r v- J r." ' ^'i vol. 17), p. 495. ~ 



Pl^*- ' '■'^'^^ '^ Tongoop, Tenasserim, Birmah. 



3;}.i-, j^J.^ 10. p. monile, Thorpe, MSS. Southern India. 



*^ PLATE CIX. 



M E li A N I A. 



1/ 



1/ 



See previous plates Ixxi to Ixxv, cix. 



1. M. spinata, Godwin-Austen, Proc. Zool. 

 1872, p. 514, pi. 30, f. 1 (as Melanoides). 

 Kopili Kiver, N. Cachar. 



Soc. 



2. M. variabilis, (var. varicosa) Benson, J. Asi. Soc. 

 Beng. vol. 5 (1836), p. 746 (the A. of his Gleanings 

 in Science, vol. 1, pi. 7). — Voy. Bonite, p. 543, pi. 

 31, f. 13. 



M. Carolinae? Gray, Grifiith's ed. Cuvier, Moll, 

 pi. 13, f. 3 (1833). — M. varicosa, Troschel, Wiegm. 

 Archiv. Nat. 1837, p. 174.— Philijipi, Abbild. 

 N. Conch, vol. 1, Mel. pi. 2, f. 2, 3. 



Eiver Gumti at Gonpur, and Tolly's Nullah 

 near Calcutta : River Hoogly, Calcutta. 



3. M. variabilis (var. echinata); Benson. 



Assam. 



4. M. fuscata, Born, Ind. Test. Vindob. pi. 16, f. 17 

 (as HeUx).— Dillwyn, Des. Cat. Shells, vol. 2, p. 951 

 (as Helix). — ? Helix ater, Chemnitz, Conch. Cab. 

 vol. 9, pt. 2, p. 116, f. 1229 (copied in Wood's Ind. 

 Test. pi. 34, f. 144 (as H. fuscata). — Bulimus fus- 

 cus, Brug. Ency. Meth. Vers, vol. 1, p. 332. 



Puniar (or Pannaar) Kiver, Cuddalore. 

 We have seen only two examples of this sheU, which 

 seems to have been delineated in Lister's Hist. Conch, 

 pi. 116, f. 11 : they resemble the M. aspirans, var. of 

 Reeve (C. Icon. Mel. f. 53, b.) but are not like the 

 types of Hind's species. 



5. M. variabilis, (var. cincta), Benson. 



" Assam" (fide Bacon). 



6. M. variabilis, (var. aspera), Benson. 543, pi. 

 31, f. 12, 15. 



Hindostan. 



7. M. Herculea, var. Sowerbii, Gould. _ 



M. variabilis, Keeve, Conch. Syst. pi. 194, f. 2 (for 

 the unnamed Melania of Sow. Genera Shells). — 

 M. Herculea, Reeve, Conch. Icon. Melan. f. 4. 

 Tenasserim. 

 A remarkable form which approaches almost equally 

 variabilis and Herculea. 



PLATE ex. 



MELANIA. 



1. M. tigrina, Hutton, J. Asi. Soc. Beng. vol. 18, 

 pt. 2 (1849), p. 658. 

 AfTghanistan. 

 Compare this with the M. beryllina, of Brot, from 

 Pondicherry (Rev. and Mag. Zool. 1860, pi. 17, f. 8). 



