TIARA. 33 



" Testa ovato-turrita, tenuicula, nitida, cornea, sparsim fusco- 

 punctata. Spira modice exserta, Integra, acuta ; anfr. 8-9 ; 

 supremi transverse plicati et longitudinal! ter striati, media 

 angulati et submuricati, sequentes convexiusculi, infra suturara 

 leviter constricti, transversim sinuose costati, sparsim longi- 

 tudinaliter striatuli, costis ad suturam in nodulis terrainatis ; anfr. 

 ultimus basi liris elevatis 5-7 ornatus. Apert. ovata, superne 

 acuta, basi valde et subanguste effusa ; margine dextro valde 

 sinuoso, et versus basin conspicue arcuatim producto ; columella 

 torta, inodice arcuata." (Brot, in Conch. -Cab.) 



Alt. 16, diam. 7mm. 



Aperture : alt. 8, diam. 4 in in. 



Hob. India, Bombay (Grateloup), Quilon, Travancore, Cochin 

 (Hanley) ; Philippines (Cuming)- Java? (Dunker). 



Subgenus TAREBIA. 



Tarebia, H.^ A. Adams, 1854, Gen. Rec. Moll. p. 304 (as subgenus 

 of Vibex, Oken). 



TYPE, Melania granifera, Lamarck ; Timor. 



Mange. S. &JE. Asia; Malaysia; Pacific Islands. 



Original description : Shell ovato-fusiform, whorls granulose or 

 tessellated with nodules : outer lip sinuated towards the hind 

 part ; interior of aperture often furnished with spiral grooves. 



56. Tiara (Tarebia) batana (Gould). 



Tiara ( Tarebia) batana (Gould), Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, i, p, 144 ; 

 Otia Conch, p. 191 ; H. & T., C. I. pi. 74, figs. 8, 9 ; Nevill, Hand 

 List, p. 274. 



Original [desertion : Testa turrita, solida, fusco-virescente, 

 apice erosa ; anfract. 6-7, planulatis, postice sub-coronatis, costulis 

 longitudinalibus et volventibus gemmularum series tres effor- 

 mantibus; apertura angusto-ovata, postice coronata, intus 

 caerulescente, columella alba. 



Alt. 25-5, diam. 38 mm. 



Nab. Tavoy ; Tenasserim Eiver. 



57. Tiara (Tarebia) broti (Dohrn). 



Tiara (Tarebia) broti (Dohrn), in Reeve's Con. Icon. pi. 22, sp. 160. 

 Melania chocolatum, Brot, Revue Zool. 1860, June, pi. 16, fig. 2; 

 H. & T., C. I. pi. 71, figs. 2, 3 ; Nevill, Hand List, p. 276. 



Shell ovately turreted, rather solid, burnt-olive; whorls few, 

 decussately wrinkle-edged throughout, concavely angled at the 

 upper part, spinously tuberculed at the angle ; aperture rather 

 small, truncated at the base, lip notched at the upper part. 



Hab. Ceylon 



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