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of each whorl, the stria? prominent, with a minutely ''quasi 

 punctate" appearance, 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 sculp- 

 tureless, the next live slightly subangulate a little above the middle, 

 cyliudrically 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. 



Alt. 9*5, diam. 4 mm. 



Hal. Mutlah Eiver at Port Canning, in brackish water on trunks 

 of trees submerged at high tide (Mainwaring). 



Subfamily PALUDOM1N.E. 



Shell solid, ovate or ovately fusiform, imperforate, without 

 basal canal, smooth or spirally striate or lirate. 



Distribution. India, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula, Borneo. 



The above was introduced by Stoliczka in his Pal. Ind., Cretac. 

 Fauna S. India, p. 207, but appears to be a nomen nuditm, hence 

 the above description by the present author. 



Genus PALUDOMUS. 



Paludomus, Swainson, Treat. Malac. 1840. p. 340. 

 TYPE, Melania ylobulosa, Gray ; Ceylon. 



Ham/e. Ceylon ; India ; Malay Peninsula ; Borneo. 



Shell oblong-globose, strong ; spire shorter than the aperture ; 

 inner lip very thick. 



The above may be supplemented by Benson's amended des- 

 cription (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, xvii, 1856, p. 495) : 



Testa plerumque imperf'orata, globoso-ovata, ovato-oblonga, 

 vel ovato-acuta, fere solida, glabra, spiraliter sulcata, vel lirata, 

 interdum spinuloso-costata, epidermide cornea induta; apertura 

 subverticali, ovato-acuta, callo parietali munita, margine columel- 

 lari, crasso, arcuatp, basali integro, interdum subeffuso. 



Operculo corneo, concavo ; nucleo subspirali insulari, sub- 

 mediano, ad sinistram sito, srriis lamellatis concentricis partem 

 majorein disci usurpantibus, circumdato. 



64. Paludomus globulosa (Gray). 



Paludomus globulosa (Gray), Griff, ed. Cuvier, Moll. pi. 14, fig. 6 

 (as Melania}', Reeve, Con. Icon., Palud. sp. 4; H. & T., C.I. 

 pi. 123, fig. 5. 



Original description : Shell globular, solid, spire flatly depressed, 



