160 Binney on Terrestrial Mollusks. 



striate, labro pone liiubum fuscuui ulbo-calloso, regulariter 6-10 

 plicato. Georgia. 



He quotes in the synonymy of this variety Mel. borealis 

 Conr. of Cuming's collection. Conrad's species is much 

 more likely to be Alexia myosotis than any variety of Mel. 

 bidcntatiis. 



Potiez and Michaud describe and figure quite a distinct 

 shell under the name of Auricula bidens Say. 



Stimpson gives precedence to Deshayes's name corneus. 

 Say's name has eight years priority, and is not preoccupied 

 in the genus Melampus. It was while treated as an Auri- 

 cula that any question existed in regard to its specific 

 name. 



PI. 75, fig. 23, represents a specimen not furnished with 

 laminsB Avithin the peristome. 



The date of publication of this species is erroneously 

 quoted by Pfeiller as 1821. The title-page of the first 

 part of vol. ii. of the Academy Proceedings bears this date. 

 The description was actually published at the date given 

 by me. 



Auricula Jaumki. A. testa conoldea, L-evi. corneo-lutescente, lon"-i- 

 tudinaliter subsiriata ; spira brevi, obtusa, siepe erosa; ajiertura elongata, 

 angustissima ; columella basi alba, biplicata, labro temii, acuto, intus 

 dentato atcpie suk-ato. 



Petite coquillc mince, presque lisse, conoide, d'une eouleur jaunatre 

 cornee ; chez les jeunes individusou voit des fascies brunes, transversales 

 ct regiiliercment disposecs. Sa spire est courte, obtuse, souvent erodes 

 comme cla-z la phipart des coipiilles lluvialiles ; louverture est etroite, 

 allongee ; la columelle ofiVe, vers sa base, deux dents blanches, egales et 

 legerement obli(pies; le bord droit, siin|)k' ut tranchant, presente, h. 

 rintcrieur, une rangce de plis saillaus, int'gaux, separes par des sillons 

 d'autant plus manpies (pi'ils sont plus inferieurs. Cette Aurieule appar- 

 tient ii la section des Conovules ; elle est voisine de V Auricula cornea de 

 Deshayes, dont die dillere neanmoins par son bord droit eonstamment 

 dentc et sdlone. Elle a 3 a 4 lignes de longcur. 



Elle liabite les niarais, aux environs de Hampton en Vinnnie, o\X elle 



