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costato-striato; apertura subovali, antice vix effusa; columella
rotundata, alba, fauce fasciatim sublividu.
Alt. 47-5, diara. 12-5 mm.
Hah. Manko, Tavoy.
Var. lanceolata {Hanley ^- Theobald), Concli. Ind. pi. 153,
fig. 1; Nevill, Hand List, pt. 2, p. 248.
A slender form.
Alt. 63, diam. 22'75 mm.
Hah. Mandalay {Anderson) ; Henzada, Pegu {SfoKczha) ; Thyet
Myo (Hungerford).
Var. imbricata {Hanley 4' Theobald), torn. cit. fig. 4; Nevill,
Hand List, pt. 2, p. 249.
"In quite young specimens the 'imbricated' sculpture can
scarcely be detected." {NeviU.)
Alt. 65, diam. 25 mm.
Hah. Henzada {Stoliczha) ; Taylaymaw {Anderson).
Var. solidiuscula, Nevill, Hand List, pt. 2, p. 249; Brot,
Conch.-Cab. ii, pi. 13, fig. 6 (as " M. reevei [juv.] ").
" . . . . Solid and light yellow coloured ; a quite young specimen
having a single broad brown belt on the middle of the last whorl."
(mviU.)
Alt. 48, diam. 18 mm.
Hab. Pegu {Stoliczha).
39. Tiara (Melanoides) variabilis {Benson).
Tiara {Melanoides) variabilis (Benson), J. A. S. B. v, 1836,
pp. 746-747; Brot, in Conch.-Cab. 1875, pp. 85-87, pi. 10, figs. 1,
1 a-d; H. & T., C. L pi. 109, iigs. 2,3, 5, 6.
Original description :—Testa elongato-turrita, solida, olivacea vel
picea, sub epidermide albida; anfractibus convexis transverse
liratis, longitudinaliter striatis et costatis; costulis anfractus
ultimi superne nodulosis; apiee plerumque truncate; suturis
excavatis. Apertura intus violacea, columellse basi sinuata.
Hab. Goomty Eiver at Jonpur, Tolly's Nullah, near Calcutta.
Var. A. Anfractuum inferiorum liris elevatis, nodulis elevatoribus.
Hah. Eiver Hooghli at Calcutta.
Var. B. Liris, mediana excepta, obsoletis; nodulis subspinosis
carinam humeralem coroaantibas.
This is the var. spijiosa, Benson.
Var. C. Lsevis liris costulisque obsoletis ; anfractus ultimi medio
subcarinato, adulti nodulis humeralibus frugaliter sparsis.