262 Annals of the South African Museum. 



CAPE OP GOOD HOPE. Prieska (Gibbons, fide M. & P.). 



This species, origina.lly founded on a single specimen collected at 

 Zanzibar, is rather widely distributed in East Africa, and has 

 apparently been described under various different names. Melvill 

 and Ponsonby, after comparison of the types, place C. amcena in the 

 synonymy, and von Martens cannot separate cameroni and kyngauica, 

 JBgt., from ferruginea ; while Smith (1881) remarks that " Melania 

 zanguebarica of Petit appears to be the same as this species ; and 

 P. africanus of Martens, if not identical, offers but slight distinctions." 



553. CLEOPATRA MOBBELLI, Preston. 



1905 Cleopatra morrelli, Prest., Proc. Mai. Soc. vi. p. 300, f. 3. D.F. 

 1909 morelli, " Smith," Kob., Conch. Cab. p. 391. pi. 76, 

 f. 6, 7. D.F. 



Type in British Museum. 



Hab. EHODESIA. Victoria Palls (Morrell). 



var. COSTATA, Preston. 



1905 Cleopatra iitorrclli, var. costata, Prest., Proc. Mai. Soc. vi. 



pp. 300, f. 4; 301. F.D. 

 Type in British Museum. 

 Hab. EHODESIA. Victoria Falls (Morrell). 



FAMILY MELANILDJE, d'Orbigny, 1837. 



(Moll. Canar. p. 77, as Melanidffi.) 



SUB-FAMILY MELANIIN^, H. & A. Adams, 1854. 



(Gen. rec. Moll. i. p. 294.) 



GENUS MELANIA, Lamarck, 1799. 

 (Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris, p. 75.) 



Type of Genus, M. amarula (Lin.). 



554. MELANIA AMARULA (Linne). 



1758 Helix amarula, Lin., Syst. Nat., Ed. 10. i. p. 774. D. 



1764 Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 672. D. 



1767 Syst. Nat., Ed. 12. p. 1249. D. 



1774 Buccinum amarula, Miill., Verm. ii. p. 137. D. 



1786 Helix Lin., Chern., Conch. Cab. ix, 2. p. 157. 



pi. 134, f. 1218, 19. D.F. 

 1788 Gmel.,Syst.Nat.,Ed.l3.i,6.p.3656. D. 



