166 Binney on Terrestrial Mollusks. 



white, subequal folds, its columcllar portion both short and 



callous. 



Length, 1\ ; diameter, 4J ; aperture in length almost 5, 



in breadth 1^ millimetres. 



Geographical Distribution. Florida Keys. (Bartlett.) 

 Remarks. Pfeiffer compares it with Mel. cing-ulatus. 



It appears to me easily distinguished from that and the 



other species of the United States. 



MELAMPLS FLAVL'S Gmelix. 



T. imperforata, obconica, laevigata, castanea, fasciis 3 angustis palHdis 

 ornata ; spirabrevis, convcxo-conoidea, mucroiiata; sutura linearis ; anfr. 

 9-10, superi planiusculi, ultimus | long, fere a;quans, basi arcuatoerista- 

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

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

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

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

 (Pfr.) 



SYNOXYMS AND REFERENCES. 



Lister Hist. t. 834, fig. 60. 

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



Auricula Miclce parva, &c. Mart, and Chemn. ii. p. 119, 126. t. 43, f. 445. 

 Valuta n. 106, Schroter, Einl. i. p. 272. 

 Valuta Jlava Gmelin, Syst. p. 3436, No. 5. 

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

 Valuta flamviea y Gmelln, 1. c. 3435, n. i. 

 Bulimus monile Bruguierk, Encyel. Metli. i. p. 338, n. 70. 

 JItlampa monile Schweiguer, Handb. p. 739. 

 Conov-ulus monile Goldfus, Hand, p. 657. 

 Conoruhts flatus Anton, Verz. 1776. 

 Auricula monile Ferussac, Podr. p. 105. 



Lamark, Hist. vi. 2, p. 141: cd. Desli. viii. p. 333. 

 KusTER in Chemn. cd. 2, Auric, p. 30, pi. iv. tigs. 7-9. 

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



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

 Auricula coui/urmis Orbigny, Cuba. 

 Milampiis mvnile Lowe, ZoiJl. Journ. v. p. 292. 



r>ECK, Ind. p. 108. 

 Afclmnj/us miniitus /3 Beck, 1. c. 107. 

 Milaiiipus fliirus Adams, Contr. p. 42, 186. 

 Puey, Mem. i. 394. 

 Pfeh^fer, Mou. Auric. Viv. 21. 



