48 TIAEID^l. 



palustris [P. palustris, Layard] ; decussating striae, however, 

 obsolete in the adult, as in the typical Madras form, spiral striation 

 very variable in amount of development." (Nevill.) 



Alt. 16-5, diaui. 1T5 mm. (decollate, three whorls only re- 

 maining). 



Hob. Travancore (Beddome) ; Pulney Hills (Fairban/e). 



84. Paludomus monile, Thorpe MSS., Hanley. 



Paludomus monile, Thorpe MSS., H. & T. ; C. I. pi. 108, fig. 10 

 (fig. only). 



Shell fusiform! j turbinate, small, yellowish-olive, painted with 

 interrupted spiral lines and bands of reddish-purple; remaining 

 whorls 3|, regularly increasing, sculptured with spiral lines crossed 

 by transverse stria? which present a somewhat decussate appear- 

 ance ; suture impressed, callously and decussately margined below ; 

 coluniellar margin descending in a curve, whitish, extending above 

 into a thickish, well-defined, parietal callus which reaches to the 

 upper margin of the labrum ; labrum acute, bevelled inwardly at 

 the base ; aperture ovate ; interior of shell showing the reddish- 

 purple bands through the test. 



Alt. 12-5, diaui. maj. 9, diam. min. 7 mm. 



Aperture : alt. 6'75, diam. 4 mm. 



Hob. Southern India. 



Type in British Museum. 



85. Paludomus rotunda, Blanford. 



Paludomus rotunda, Blanford, J. A. S. B. 1870, xxxix, pt. 2. p. 10. 

 pi. 3, fig. 2 ; H. & T., C. I. pi. 108, fig. 2. 



Original desertion; Testa non rimata, globosa, rotunda, 

 solida, epidermide fusca induta, sub-laevigata, striis increment! 

 et liris sub-obsoletis confertis, miuutis, spiralibus decussantibus 

 signata ; spira brevissima ; apice erosulo ; sutura vix iiupressa. 

 Anfr. 2^-3 rapide crescentes, primi parum convexi, ultiinus valde 

 major, tumidus, antice non descendens, subtus convexus. Aper- 

 tura sub-obovalis, postice angulata, obliqua, intus fasciis 2-3 in- 

 trantibus ornata ; "peristoma simplex, acutum, margine basali 

 expansiusculo ; columella albida, callosa, lata. Operc. normale. 



Alt. 15, diam. maj. 14 mm. 



Hab. Travancore. 



Var. microstoma, Nevill, Hand List, pt. 2, p. 295. 



Ko other description than dimensions given. 



Alt. 11, diam. 10 mm. (much eroded, 1 whorls only remaining). 



Hab. Anarnallay Rivers (Beddome) ; Madura Hills (Beddome). 



