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PALUDOMUS. 63
costis squamatis spiraliter cingulata, supra medium obsolete
earinata; apertura semicircularis, alba, intus cserulescens.
Alt. 35, diam. 32 mm.
Aperture : alt. 29, diam. 21 mm.
Hah. Ceylon.
128. Paludomus (Tanalia) similis, Layard.
Paludomus (Tanalia) similis, Layard, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 92 ; H. & T.,
0.1, pi. 122, fig. 1.
Original description:—Shell rather globose; axis 8 lines, diam.
6 lines. Spire short, exserted. Whorls rounded, ventricose,
spirally grooved with close-set, fine, minutely decussated striaa.
Colour rich olive-yellow, profusely marked with longitudinal,
wavy, dark lines, interrupted by four or five fine transverse bands
of the same colour. Aperture : the dark markings of the shell
show through, and are dimmed by a bluish haze; columella lip
white, stained on the outside edge with dark brown, which runs
round the outer lip in a thin band.
Hah. A mountain torrent at Kandangamoa, near Eatnapoora,
Ceylon.
129. Paludomus (Tanalia) melanostoma, Hanley &f Theohdld.
Paludomus (Tanalia) melanostoma, Ilanley & Theobald, Con. Ind.
pi. 121, figs. 8, 9 (figs. only).
Shell oblong-ovate, solid, dark yellowish-brown, paiuted with
oblique, transverse, zigzag bands of black ; remaining whorls 3,
rapidly increasing, the last large, sculptured with more or less
beaded, spiral liree; suture impressed ; columella margin excavated,
white within, stained with brownish-black without, extending
upwards into a thickisb, well-defined, parietal callus which has
the game colouring and reaches to the upper margin of the
labrum; labrum edged with a variegated band of brown and
yellowish white just within, acute ; aperture ovate ; interior of
shell white.
Alt. 25, diam. maj. 21-25, diam. min. 15-2o mm.
Aperture : alt. 20, diam. 11"25 mm.
Hah. Ceylon.
Type in British Museum.
Subgenus STOMATODON.
StomatodoH, Benson, A. M. N. H. ser. 3, x, 1862, p. 414.
TTPE, Paludomus stomatodon, Benson ; Travancore.
Range. Travancore.
For description see that of Paludomus (S.) stomatodon given
below.