242 MELANIIDS. 
Sent to me as “ M. tuberculata, var.” Itis a very interesting 
subgranulose variety, approaching M. crebra, Lea; of a unitorm 
straw coluur ; spire not much produced ; last whorl convex. 
Long. 22, diam. 7$ mil.; anfr. 6-7. 
var. layardi. 
Melania layardi, Dohrn, P. Zool. 8. 1858, Ceylon. 
5 Ceylon; coll. E. L, Layard, Esq. [A. 5. B.]. 
16 Colombo and Balapiti; coll. G. Nevill, Esq. 
16 Kandy; coll. G. Nevill, Esq. 
Fine specimens of the typical form of M. layardi. 
12 Kandy; coll. G, Nevill, Esq. 
Living with the preceding, separable by the more or less 
well developed, longitudinal sculpture; the whorls seem as a 
rule more convexly swollen. Can this be a sexual difference ? 
1 Kandy; coll. G. Nevill, Esq. 
A remarkable, attenuate and contracted, ‘ depauperate ” 
specimen. Longitudinal ribbing distinct, 
5 Kandy; coll. H. F. Blanford, Esq. 
5 S. Canara ; coll. Colonel R, H. Beddome. 
The first specimens, I believe, of this very characteristic 
variety described from Continental India, They are a very 
fine form—long. 33, diam. 10? mil.—7 whorls. 
var. tamsii. 
Melania tamsii, Dohrn, Zeits. Mal., 1845, 8. Antao, 
6 8S. Antad and S, Nicolau [Cape de Verde Islands) ; coll. Dr. H. 
Dohrn. 
var, tigrina [? dist. sp.]. 
Melania tigrina, Hutton, J. A. S. B., 1849, Afghanistan, and Pinjore below 
Simla, &c., Con. Indica, pl. 110, figs. 1-2 [dene]. 
Quetta [Beluchistan]’; coll. Captain F. W. Hutton [A. S. B,]. 
