TIARA. 23 



costato-striato ; apertura subovali, antice vix effusa; columella 

 rotundata, alba, fauce fasciatim sublivida. 



Alt. 47*5, diam. 12-5 inm. 



ffab. Manko, Tavoy. 



Var. lanceolata (Hanky $ Theobald), Concli. Ind. pi. 153, 

 fig. 1 ; Nevill, Hand List, pt. 2, p. 248. 



A slender form. 

 Alt. 63, diam. 22-75 mm. 



Hob. Mandalay (Anderson) ; Henzada, Pegu (StoliczJca) ; Thyet 

 Myo (Hungerford). 



Var. imbricata (Hanley $ Theobald), torn. cit. fig. 4; .Nevill, 

 Hand List, pt. 2, p. 249. 



" In quite young specimens the ' imbricated ' sculpture can 

 scarcely be detected." (Nevill.) 

 Alt. 65, diam. 25 mm. 

 ffab. Henzada (StoliczJca) Taylaymaw (Anderson). 



Var. solidiuscula, Nevill, Hand List, pt. 2, p. 249; Brot, 

 Conch.-Cab. ii, pi. 13, fig. 6 (as M. reevei [juv.] ") 



" . . . . Solid and light yellow coloured ; a quite young specimen 

 having a single broad brown belt on the middle of the last whorl." 

 (Nevill.) 



Alt. 48, diam. 18 mm. 



ffab. Pegu (StoliczJca). 



39. Tiara (Melanoides) variabilis (Benson). 



Tiara (Melanoides) variabilis (Benson), J. A. S. B. v, 1836, 

 pp. 746-747 ; Brot, in Conch.-Cab. 1875, pp. 85-87, pi. 10, figs. 1, 

 1 a-d-, H. & T., C. I. pi. 109, figs. 2, 3, 5, 6. 



Original description : Testa elongato-turrita, solida, olivacea vel 

 picea, sub epidermide albida ; anfractibus convexis transverse 

 liratis, longitudinaliter striatis et costatis ; costulis anfractus 

 ultimi superne nodulosis ; apice plerumque truncate ; suturis 

 excavatis. Apertura intus violacea, coiumellae basi sinuata. 



ffab. Goomty River at Jonpur, Tolly's Mullah, near Calcutta. 



Var. A. Anfractuum inferiorum liris elevatis, nodulis eleva- 

 toribus. 



ffab. River Hooghli at Calcutta. 



Var. B. Liris, mediana excepta, obsoletis ; nodulis subspinosis 

 carinam humeralem coronantibus. 

 This is the var. sjoinosa, Benson. 



Var. C. Laevis liris costulisque obsoletis ; anfractus ultimi medio 

 subcarinato, adulti nodulis humeralibus frugaliter sparsis. 



