166 AURICULACEA. 



white, subequal folds, its columellar portion both short and 



callous. 



Length, 7| ; diameter, 4g ; aperture in length almost 5, 



in breadth 1^ millimetres. 



Geographical Distribution. Florida Keys. (Bartlett.) 

 Remarks. PfeifFer compares it with Mel. cingulatus. 



It appears to me easily distinguished from that and the 



other species of the United States. 



MELAMPUS FLAVUS GMELIN. 



T. imperforata, obconica, lasvigata, castanea, fasciis 3 angnstis pallidis 

 ornata ; spira brevis, convexo-conoidea, niucronata ; sutura linearis ; anfr. 

 9-10, superi planiusculi, ultimus | long, fere a?quans, basi arcuato-crista- 

 tus ; apertura subverticalis, angusta, basi angulata ; plica 1 parietalis 

 profunda ; plica columellaris valida, subverticalis, ad basim porrecta ; 

 perist. rectum, acutum, margine dextro fusco-labiato, intus albo-calloso, 

 costis sub 10 transversis, brevibus ! munito, columellari calloso, dilatato. 

 (Pfr.) 



SYNONYMS AND REFERENCES. 



LISTER Hist. t. 834, fig. 60. 

 FAVANNE Conch, t. 65, fig. H, i. 



Auricula Midce parva, &c. MART, and CHEMN. ii. p. 119, 126. t. 43, f. 445. 

 Valuta n. 106, SCHRO'TER, Einl. i. p. 272. 

 Valuta flava GMELIN, Syst. p. 3436, No. 5. 

 DILLWYN, Cat. i. p. 506, n. 17. 

 Voluta flammea y GMELIN, 1. c. 3435, n. i. 

 Bulimus monile BRUGUIERE, Encycl. Meth. i. p. 338, n. 70. 

 Melampa monile SCHWEIGGER, Handb. p. 739. 

 Conovulus monile GOLDFUS, Hand. p. 657. 

 Conovulus flavus ANTON, Verz. 1776. 

 Auricula monile FERUSSAC, Podr. p. 105. 



LAMARK, Hist. vi. 2, p. 141 : ed. Desh. viii. p. 333. 



KUSTER in Chemn. ed. 2, Auric, p. 30, pi. iv. figs. 7-9. 

 Auricula flava DESHAYES in Lam. viii. p. 33. 



PETIT, Journ. Conch, ii. 1851, p. 427. 

 Auricula coniformis ORBIGNY, Cuba. 

 Melampus monile LOWE, Zool. Journ. v. p. 292. 



BECK, Ind. p. 108. 

 tildampus minutus j3 BECK, 1. c. 107. 

 Mdampus flams ADAMS, Contr. p. 42, 186. 



POEY, Mem. i. 394. 



PFEIFFER, Mon. Auric. Viv. 21. 



