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tinct, much as in typical M. gloriosa, but more crowded ; like 
the typical form, it is throughout regularly, though indistinctly, 
spirally striate. There are three specimens also in the collection 
of Mr. H. F. Blanford, and on the same tablet, presumedly 
from the same locality, ‘‘ Henzada,” a single specimen of M. 
reevet. It is very interesting to find the two species living 
together; this occurrence is confirmed by the specimens from 
Dr. Stoliczka’s collection, wherein I found the two above-record- 
ed specimens and a young M. reevei mixed together. 
var. beddomeana, nov. [? dist. sp.]. 
5 Near Moulmein ; coll. Colonel R. H. Beddome. 
An exceedingly interesting form. Long. 44, diam. 17 mil.; 
slightly decollate, of five whorls. Closely resembles the preceding 
in shape of the whorls and spiral striation at base of last whorl; 
relatively even more solid; appears to be perfectly smooth 
throughout, with the exception of the above-mentioned basal 
striation. 
39. Melania [Melanoides] herculea. 
Melania herculea, Gould, P. Bost. S. II, 1846, Tavoy River; Con. Indica, 
pl, 72, fig. 5, and var. sowerbyi, Hanley, 1. ¢., pl. 109, fig. 7 3 var. =M. 
julien, Brot. 
50 Near Moulmein [Tenasserim Proy.]; coll. Baron F. von Richthofen 
and Herr O. Limborg. é 
The largest—long. 814, diam. 33 mil. 
Prof. Brot apparently does not know this species, as he con- 
fuses it with a mere local race of Mel. variabilis ; this he figures, 
pl. X, fig. 1, as “typical” Mel. herculea. On the same plate, 
fig. b, he figures a young specimen of the true Mel. herculea, 
and remarks quite correctly that it is the M. hercuela, var. 
sowerbyt, of the Con. Indica. Moreover, he redescribes, most 
excellently, a local form of it as a new species—M. julieni, Des- 
hayes, MS., from Tonkin. 
40. Melania [Melanoides] variabilis. 
Melania variabilis, Benson, J. Asiat. S., V., 1836, “ Rv. Gumti and Tolly’s 
nullah near Calcutta,” and figured Gleanings Science, II, pl. 7, 
Jy. 1;=M. varicosa, Troschel, 1837, Ganges; var.=Mel, suma- 
trensis, Brot, 1874. Sumatra and Java, and WM. brookei, Reeve, 
Benson, 1. c., “ Testa elongato-turrita solida olivaced vel picea, 
sub epidermide albidd ; anfractibus convexis transverse liratis, 
