MELANIIDJ!. 287 



" horn "-colour, girt on the last whorl with three distinct, broad, 

 dark-brown bands, showing clearly within the aperture ; spirally 

 regularly striated, below the slight subangulation of each whorl, 

 the striae prominent, with a minutely " quasi punctate " ap- 

 pearance, the above becoming somewhat obsolete ; covered more 

 or less with rather long and well-developed hairs ; whorls nine, 

 the apical three exceedingly minute, white and sculptureless, 

 the next five slightly subangulate a little above the middle, 

 cylindrically 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. 



6 Mutl ah River at Port Canning; coll. Colonel G. B. Mainwaring, J. 

 Wood-Mason, Esq., and Dr. F. Stoliczka. 



Found by Colonel Mainwaring in brackish water on trunks of 

 trees submerged at high tide. 



Sub-family PALUDOMIN^J, Stoliczka. 



Genus PALTJD OMITS, Swainson. 



Treat. Malac. 1840, p. 340, types Melania globulosa, conica and retusa, 

 Gray ; Layard, Ann. Mag. 1855, type restricted Paludomus conica, 

 Gray. 



l. Paludomus conica. 



Melania conica, Gray, Griffith's Cuvier, 1834, and Hanley, Con. Misc. fig. 34 

 \type\ ; fide Hanky, Con. Indica, p. 50 = P. rudis, Reeve, P. Z. S., 

 1852, Loc. ? ; = Melania crassa, Busch, Phil. Abb. 1847, Bengal [not 

 Pal. crassa of IsseV] ; vars. ? = P. maurus, Rv., P, Z. S., 1852, Ganges, 

 and P. paludinoides, Rv., Sikkim. 



7 Gowhatty j coll. Museum Collector. 



Resembles M. Brot's pi. II, fig. 14. 



20 Teria Ghat, Mangken Rv., Digong Rv. and Jaintia Hills ; coll. Colonel 

 H. H. Godwin-Austen. 



Well represented by M. Brot's pi. II, fig. ]3. 

 6 Sylhet ; ex c. As. Soc. Bengal. 



