468 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [December, 1913. 
8. M. praerosa, Lin. 
Dautzenberg, Rev, Biol. Nord France, 1894, pp. pe” 
Generally distributed throughout Syria. Dr. andale 
procured specimens trom Tabghah, Mejdal, etc. : eet in quan- 
tity from a small mineral spring ~ ees near Tiberias 
and from the Barada River, Damas 
[Much more abundant in Aitining ‘water than in stagnant. 
—N. Annandale.] 
Family HY DROBIIDAE. 
9. Pyrgula barroisi, Dtz. 
Dautzenberg, Rev. Biol. Nord France, 1894, pp. 345-346. 
Lake of ‘Tiberias | Barrois) ; exit of Jordan from Lake of 
Tiberias (dead specimens only). (Annandale). 
10. Bithinia badiella, Parr. 
Dautzenberg, T. C. pp. 347-348 
Lake of Homs; Nahr el Tebeath : Tell el Kadi; Stream 
at Damascus ; marshes of Ain. él Musaieh ; Lake of Tiberias 
(Barrois). Lake of Tiberias, on lower surface of stones ; exit 
of River Jordan from the Lake, and from a small dirty pool 
near the east shore of the Lake. ~(Annandale). 
[Not uncommon under stones at the edge of the lake. 
—N. Annandale} 
ll. Bithinia gennesaretensis, sp. n. 
(Plate XXVIIT, fig. 8.) 
Shell perforate, ovately fusiform, semitransparent, polished, 
shining, pale reddish yellow; whorls s 44, rather rapidly 1 InCreas” 
ing, convex, marked with ens 
; m simple, dilated below ; aperture 
ovate; operculum calcareous, white, mitltilaminiferous, with 
central nucleus. 
It. 7, diam, maj. 4-25, diam. min. 375 mm. 
Aperture; alt. 3, diam. 2 
ab. 
—Semakh to exit of Jordan. Lake of Tiberias. 
(Annandale). 
nly taken in the channel of the Jordan in the lake.—N- 
Annandale.) 
