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assigning them to any genus of land molluscs. In this perplexity , 

 the discovery of P. Wapsharei was most opportune. In it we have 

 a shell that so nearly agrees with P. Deccanensis in form as to admit 

 of no doubt being entertained that they are both of the same genus ; 

 while it also agrees so exactly with the four species under considera- 

 tion, in regard to the position of the stripes of colour, as to warrant 

 our using the certainty of our knowledge as to its genus, in the deter- 

 mination of the genus of those that are more doubtful. 



If this be allowed, then the group of Paludinidm which I have 

 indicated bears an obvious relation to the species described by Olivier 

 under the name of P. bulimoides, which is characterized by coloured 

 bands situated precisely as in our five fossil species of Paludina, and 

 varying in number from one to two in the exposed portion of each 

 whorl, after the manner of P. Wapsharei. Perhaps an examination 

 of the animal of P. bulimoides, which inhabits Syria and Egypt, may 

 afford some grounds (as suggested to me by that distinguished 

 naturalist, Mr. S. P. Woodward) for constituting it and the fossil 

 species resembling it into a subgenus. 



Paludina Takliensis, sp. now PI. V. figs. 8 a, 8 6. 

 P. testa ovato-conica, elongata, laevigata, apice truncato ; anfractibus 7-8, convexis, 



valde separatis ; apertura ovata. Long. - 5 ; lat. -2 una 



Found at Takli, from which locality it derives its specific name. 

 The dimensions above given are of a smaller specimen. The only 

 other one that has been discovered consists of three lower whorls, 

 indicating a shell, when entire, of at least -7 by '28 of an inch. 



Paludina soluta, sp. nov. PI. V. fig. 9. 

 P. testa crassa, ovato-conica ; apice obtuso ; anfractibus 5, ventricosis ; sutura 

 incisa ; apertura subrotimdata. Long. - 5 ; lat. 3 una 



At KarwacZ, rare ; but common in the Narbadda territory, whence 

 specimens are brought to Nagpur by stone-polishers as paper-weights. 

 This species agrees with the preceding one in the looseness of its 

 whorls, but differs from it in its greater breadth and the smaller 

 number of its volutions. 



Paludina conoidea, sp. nov. PI. V. fig. 10. 

 P. testa conoidea, apice subacute ; anfractibus C>, eoinplanatis ; uportura ovata. 

 Long. - 41 ; lat. -2~> ana 

 Found occasionally in the red clay of Phi/dura. 



I'aumw Rawest, sp. noy. I'l. V. fig. 11. 

 P. testa magna, elongato-taxrita, plaromqua truncate ; anfractibus 8, forritaa 



usque ad II. convexis; sutura iniprcssa ; apertura ovata, superne ungulata ; 

 peristomate interTUpto; lal'ii marline rrllexo. sul>era.-.-ato. Long. '•'■">; lat '■'>■ 



Takli, common. The measurement given is of a specimen that 



lias lost only its two uppermost whorls ; but a much larger specimen, 



that is so decollate as to have only 4_1 whorls left, measures ''- 1 bj '6 



of an inch, and must bays extended to an entire length of I .'. inch. 

 Some specimens exhibit a tendency to a pnpiform appearance. This 



species, which possesses some similarity to the existing P. COntorta 



ef Shuttleworth, 1 bays named in honour of W, W. Etawes, Esq., 

 of the Bfadraa aCedioal Serviee, whose love for natural history is 



