MELANIA VTRGINTCA= 



DESCRIPTION. 



Shell turrited, usually truncate-eroded at tip: olivaceous 

 or blackish brown ; whorls about six, but little rounded, 

 crossed by obvious wrinkles : a dull reddish line revolves 

 near the base of the w horls. and another near or upon the 

 middle, both sometimes obsolete or wanting ; labrum a lit- 

 tle prominent towards the base. 



Jlnimal bluish-white beneath, with orange clouds each 

 side of the mouth ; above pale orange shaded with dusky 

 and banded with numerous black interrupted lines : mouth 

 advanced into a rostrum as long as the tentacula, which 

 arc darker at base, and setaceous : foot with an undulated 

 outline. 



Var. a. Shell destitute of the rufous bands. 



SYNONYMS. 



BucciNUM YiRGiNicL'M. Gmcl. p. 3ry05. BUlw. Dcscr. 

 Calalp. 652. 



Lister Stjnop. pi 113, Jig. 7. 

 Paludina virginica, Nob, Nicholson's Encycl {3d 

 Amer. Ed.) art. Conch.pl. ^.Jig, 4. 



Melania fasciata, Mcyikc, Syiioj). Mollusc, p. 82. 



[Var. a.] Lister Sjpiop, pi 1 10, Jig. 4. 



