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CONCHOLOGIA IXDICA. 



us of the U. mutabilia of Lea (Obs. Unio, vol. 7), said 

 to be Australian. 

 6, 7. U. Sikkimensis, Lea. See Plate XL f. 4. 

 Assam. 



This species, formerly so scarce, had been previoiisly 

 figured by us from an uncharacteristic example. The 

 large variety (fig. 7) reminds one externally of Wyne- 

 gungaensis. 



PLATE CVIII. 

 PALUDOMUS. 



1. P. stomatodon, Benson, An. Nat. Hist. 1862 

 (ser. 3, vol. 10), p. 415 (as ? Tanalia). 



Near Cottyam, Travancore. 



2. P. rotunda, Blanford, J. Asi. Soc. Beng. 1870 

 (vol. 39, pt 2), p. 9, pi. 3, f. 2. 



Travancore. 



3. P. IsBvis, Layard, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854, p. 89. 



Ceylon. 



4. P. reticulata, Blanford, J. Asi. Soc. Beng. 1870 

 (vol. 39, pt. 2), p. 9, pi. 3, f. 1. 



Cachar. 



5. P. regulata, Benson, An. Nat. Hist. 1856 (ser. 2, 

 vol. 17), !>. 490. 



Thyot jMio, Birmah. 



6. P. regulata, var. Benson. 



Ujiper Birniah. 



7. P. parva, Layard, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854, p. 90. 



Ceylon. 



By some error the longitudinal brown marks (in 

 tlie type) were described as spiral. 



8. P. ornata, Benson, An. Nat. Hist. 185G (ser. 2, 

 vol. 17), p. 49G. 



Birniah. 



9. P. labiosa, Bcn.^on, An. Nat. Hist. 1850 (ser. 2. 

 vol. 17), 195. 



Ton)j;oop, Tonassorim, Birmah. 

 10. P. monile, Thorpe, MSS. Southern Lidia. 



PLATM CIX. 

 M E L A N I A. 

 Soo previous plates Ixxi to Ixxv, cix. 

 1. M. spinata, Godwin-Auston. Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1872. p. 51 1. pl. 30, f. 1 (as Mdauoides). 

 Kopili River, N. Cachar. 



2. M. variabilis, (var. varicosa) Benson, J. Asi. Sec. 

 Beng. vol. 5 (1836), p. 746 (the A. of his Gleanings 

 in Science, vol. 1, pl. 7). — Yoy. Bonite, p. 543, pl. 

 31, f. 13. 



M. Carolinae? Gray, Griffith's ed. Cuvier, Moll, 

 pl. 13, f. 3 (1833).— M. varicosa, Troschel, Wiegm. 

 Archiv. Nat. 1837, p. 174.— PhiHppi, Abbild. 

 N. Conch, vol. 1, Mel. pl. 2, f. 2, 3. 



Eiver Gumti at Gonpur, and Tolly's Nullah 

 near Calcutta : Eiver Hoogly, Calcutta. 



3. M. variabilis (var. echinata)^ Benson. 



Assam. 



4. M. fuscata. Born, Ind. Test. Vindob. pl. 16, f. 17 

 (as Helix).— DUlwyn, Des. Cat. SheUs, vol. 2, p. 951 

 (as Helix). — ? Helix ater, Chemnitz, Conch. Cab. 

 voh 9, pt. 2, p. 116, {. 1229 (copied in "Wood s Ind. 

 Test. pl. 34, f. 144 (as H. fuscata).— Bulimus fus- 

 cus, Brug. Ency. Meth. Vers, vol. 1, p. 332. 



Puniar (or Pannaar) Eiver, Cuddalore. 

 We have seen only two examples of this shell, which 

 seems to have been dehneated in Lister's Hist Conch, 

 pl. 116, {. 11 : they resemble the M. aspirans, var. of 

 Reeve (C. Icon. Mel. f. 53. b.) but are not like the 

 types of Hind's species. 



5. M. variabilis, (var. cincta). Benson. 



'■ Assam" (tide Bacon). 



6. M. variabilis, (var. aspera), Benson. 543, pl. 

 31, f. 12, 15. 



Hindostan. 



7. M. Herculea, var. Sowerbii, Gould. 



U. variabilis, Reeve, Conch. Syst. pl. 194, f. 2 (for 

 the unnamed Melania of Sow. Genera Shells). — 

 M. Herculea, Reeve, Couch. Icon. Melan. f. 4. 

 Tenasserim. 



A remarkable form which approaches almost equally 

 variabilis and Herculea. 



PLATE ex. 



MELANIA. 



1. M. tigriua, Ilutton, J. Asi. Soc. Beng. vol. IS, 

 pt. 2 (1819). p. 658. 

 Atlghanistan. 



Compare this with the M. beryllina, of Brot. from 

 Pondicherry (Rev. and Mag. Zool. 1860, pl. 17, f 8). 



