MELAMPUS. 



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nished with ten short, transverse ribs, its columellar portion expanding 

 and callous. Length 12, breadth 8'j ; length of aperture 9^, breadth at 

 the middle 3 millimetres. 



Lister, Hist. t. dcccxxxiv, f. 60. — Favanne, Conch, t. Ixv, f. H, i. 

 Auricula midce parva, &c., Makt. & Cuemn. II, 119, 126, t. xliii, f. 445. 

 Valuta, n. 106, Schrotek, Einl. I, 272. 



Voluta Jlava, Gmelin, Syst. 3436, No. 5. — Dillwyx, Cat. I, .'J06, u. 17. 

 Valuta Jlanimea, y, Gmelin, /. c. 3435, n. i. 

 Bulimus monile, Bruguieke, Encycl. Meth. I, 338, n. 70. 

 Melampa monile, Schweigger, Handb. 739. 

 Conovulus monile, Goldfus, Hand. 657. 

 Conovulus flatus, Anton, Verz. 1776. 



Auricula monile, Ferussac, Podr. 105. — Lamarck, An. sans Vert. VI, 2, 

 141; ed. Desh. VIII, 333. — KiisTEK in Chemn. ed. 2, Auric. 30, pi. 

 iv, f. 7-9. 

 Auricula flava, Deshayes in Lam. VIII, 33. — Petit, Journ. Conch. II, 



427 (1851). 

 Auricula coniformis, Orbigny, Moll. Cuba. 

 Mehimpus monile, LowE, Zool. Journ. V, 292. 



Melampus flavus, Adams, Contr. 42, 186. — Poey, Mem. I, 394. — Pfeiffer, 

 Mon. Auric. Viv. 21 ; Brit. Mus. Auric. 14.— W. G. Binney, T. M. 

 IV, 186, wood-cut. 

 Melampus torosa, Morch, Cat. Yoldi, 38. 

 Melampus monilis, Shuttleworth, Diag. 7, 162. 



A West Indian species, found in Florida by Mr. Bartlett. 



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Melampus COffea, Lin. — Shell imperforate, cone-shaped, very 

 solid and heavy, smooth and shining in fresh specimens, with delicate 

 wrinkles of growth, and very numerous microscopic revolving 

 lines ; light fawn-color when deprived of its russet epidermis, 

 with three or four revolving bands of white on the body 

 whirl, of which the uppermost is broadest ; suture moderate ; 

 spire short, conic, apex black, shining, pointed ; whirls from 

 nine to ten, the upper ones flattened, the last obtusely angu- 

 lated below the suture, } | the length of the entire shell ; 

 aperture subvertical, long and narrow, gradually widening 

 towards the base of the shell, about [| the entire length of 

 the shell ; peristome acute, not reflected, but thickened within 

 by a heavy white callus, extending as high up as the carina 

 of the body whirl; on this callus are from fifteen to twenty-two white, 

 transverse laminae or ridges, not reaching the edge of the peristome, and not 



