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whorls swollen round the upper part, smooth throughout ; olive, 

 aperture whitish, conspicuously marked with three black bands. 



Alt. 24, diam. 21-25 mm. (taken from fig. 4 , pi. 123, in 

 Con. Icon.). 



Hab. Kopili Biver, Assam (Godwin-Austen). 



" Distinguished from all others at present known by its solid 

 globular form, and is figured and named in Griffith's Cuvier .... 

 but not described." 



The locality given in the Conch. Ind. as " Ainbegamoa, Ceylon " 

 is, according to Col. Godwin-Austen, who lent Hanley the specimen 

 from which the species was figured, a mistake, the true locality 

 being as above. 



65. Paludomus sphaerica, Dolirn. 



Paludomus sphcerica, Dohrn, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 124 ; H. & T., C. I. 

 pi. 124, fig. 8. 



Original desertion : Testa solida, globosa, olivacea, parum 

 nitida, confertim longitudinaliter et transverse striata; spira 

 depressa, exserta ; anfractus rotundati, fasciatim spiraliter nigro- 

 maculati ; sutura simplex, alba. 



Alt. 18, diam. 17 mm. 



Aperture : alt. 15, diam. 12 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



Still rounder than P. globulosa, Gray, and different in the 

 markings and sculpture ; P. globulosa is in the upper part of the 

 whorls slightly angulated ; the whorls of P. spluerica are round. 



66. Paludomus conica (Gray}. 



Paludomus conica (Gray), Griff, ed. Cuvier, Moll. pi. 14, fig. 5 (as 



Melania] ; Reeve, Con. Icon., Palud. sp. 14 ; Benson, J. A. S. B. 



v, p. 747 (as Melania). 

 Melania crassa, Busch, in Philippi, Ahbild. N. Conch, i, Mel. pi. 1, 



figs. 10,11. 

 Paludomus rudis, Reeve, P. Z. S. 1852, p. 126 ; H. & T., C. I. 



pi. 124, fig. 4. 



Original description : Testa solida, globoso-conica, longitudi- 

 naliter striata plerumque transverse obsolete sulcata ; anfractibus, 

 ultimo ventricoso, cseteris rapide diminutis ; suturis bene signatis ; 

 apertura ovata, intus albida, fasciis quibusdam castaneis ornata ; 

 labro intus denticulate. 



Alt. 27, diam. 21 mm. (taken from fig. 14 c, pi. 3, in Con. 

 Icon.). 



Hab. Sylhet, Bootan, Assam, etc. 



Subvar. cherraensis, Nevill, Hand List, pt. 2, p. 288. 



" A short spired form. . . ." 

 Alt. 16, diam. 13-5 mm. 



Hal. Teria Ghat (type), (Godwin- Austen] ; Mangken River, 

 Assam (Godwin-Austen}. 



