PALUDOMUS. 63 



costis squamatis spiraliter cingulata, supra medium obsolete 

 carinata ; apertura semicircularis, alba, intus caerulescens. 



Alt. 35, diam. 32 mm. 



Aperture : alt. 29, diam. 21 mm. 



Hub. Ceylon. 



128. Paludomus (Tanalia) similis, Layard. 



Paludomus (Tanalia) similis, Layard, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 92 ; H. & T.. 

 C. I. pi. 122, fig. 1. 



Original description : Shell rather globose ; axis 8 lines, diam. 

 6 lines. Spire short, exserted. Whorls rounded, ventricose, 

 spirally grooved with close-set, fine, minutely decussated striae. 

 Colour rich olive-yellow, profusely marked with longitudinal, 

 wavy, dark lines, interrupted by four or five fine transverse bands 

 of the same colour. Aperture: the dark markings of the shell 

 show through, and are dimmed by a bluish haze ; columella lip 

 white, stained on the outside edge with dark brown, which runs 

 round the outer lip in a thin band. 



Hob. A mountain torrent at Kandangamoa, near Ratnapoora, 

 Ceylon. 



129. Paludomus (Tanalia) melanostoma, Hanley $ Theobald. 



Paludomus ( Tanalia) melanostoma, Hanley & Theobald, Con. Ind. 

 pi. 121, figs. 8, 9 (figs. only). 



Shell oblong-ovate, solid, dark yellowish-brown, painted with 

 oblique, transverse, zigzag bands of black ; remaining whorls 3, 

 rapidly increasing, the last large, sculptured with more or less 

 beaded, spiral lirae ; suture impressed ; columella margin excavated, 

 white within, stained with brownish- black without, extending 

 upwards into a thickish, well-defined, parietal callus which has 

 the same colouring and reaches to the upper margin of the 

 labrum; labruin edged with a variegated band of brown and 

 yellowish white just within, acute ; aperture ovate ; interior of 

 shell white. 



Alt. 25, diam. maj. 21'25, diam. min. 15*25 mm. 



Aperture : alt. 20, diam. 11'25 mm. 



Hob. Ceylon. 



Type in British Museum. 



Subgenus STOMATODON. 



Stomatodon, Benson, A. M. N. Tl. ser. 3, x, 1862, p. 414. 

 TYPE, Paludomus stomatodon^ Benson ; Travancore. 



Range. Travancore. 



For description see that of Paludomus (S.) stomatodon given 

 below. 



