GONIOBASIS. 



157 



Fig. 297. 



Habitat. — Savannah River. 



Observations. — Near the apex, two or three volutions have a fine 

 granulated or carinated line. — Conrad. 



Dr. Brot proposes the name Conradi for this spe- 

 cies as symmetrica is preoccupied by Prof. Haldeinan. 

 I doubt Avhether this species is distinct from carin- 

 ifera, Lam. 



22. G. carinifera, Lamarck. 



Melanin cnrint/era, Lamarck, Anim. sans Vert. Deshates, Anim. sans Vert., 2d 



edit., viii, p. 433. Wheatlet, Cat. Shells U. S., p. 24. Binney, Check List, No. 



48. Catlow, Conch. Isomenc, p. 185. Beot, List, p. 3G. Reeve, Monog. 



Melania, sp. 273. 

 Melanin bella, Coxrad, New Fresh Water Shells, Appendix, p. 6, t. 9. f. 4, 1834. 



Bixsey, Check List, No. 29. Biiox, List, p. 36. Reeve, Monog. Melauia, sp. 



209. 

 Elimia bella, Conrad, Adams, Genera, i, p. 300. 

 Melania perangiilata, Coxrad, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., iv, p. 154, Feb., 1849. Jour. 



Acad. Nat. Sci., i, pt. 4, p. 278, t. 38, f. 6. Bixney, Check List, No. 199. Brot, 



List, p. 3G. Reeve, Monog. Melania, sp. 285. 

 Melania percarinata, Covrad, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., iv, p. 155, Feb., 1819. Jonv. 



Acad. Nat. Sci., 2dser., i, pt. 4, p. 278, t. 38, f. 10. BiNXEY, Check List, No. 200. 



Brot, List, p. 36. 

 Melania nehulosa, Coxrad, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., iv, p. 155, Feb., 1849. Jour. Acad. 



Nat. Sci., i, pt. 4, p. 278, t. 38, f. 9. BixxEY, Clieck List, No. 172. Brot, List, 



p. 36. 

 Melania bella-crenata, Haldemax, Monog. Limniades, No. 4, p. 3 of cover, Oct. 5, 



1811. Jay, Cat., 4th ed., p. 273. Bixxey, Check List, No. 30. Brot, List, p. 3G. 

 Melania monilifera, Anthony, Jay, Cat., 4th ed.. p. 474. 



Description. — Shell ovate-oblong, longitudinally subrugose, brown- 

 ish-black; whorls carinated in the middle; 

 spire more strongly carinate. 

 Habitat. — Cherokee County (Georgia). 

 Length, Ih lignes. 



Observations.— "ThQ spire is longer than 

 the last whorl; its carinjE are very promi- 

 nent and its sutures are plain- -p- ^^ j,jg goj^ 

 ly granulose. — Lamarck. 

 Ilelania bella. — Shell sub- 

 ulate, with carinated whorls, and a prominent crenu- 

 lated line near the summit of each ; aperture elliptical. 

 Habitat. — Streams in North Alabama. — Conrad. 

 Melania perangulata. — Subulate; volutions nine or 

 ten, with an acutely carinated angle on all except the body-whorl. 



Fig. 298. 



Fig. 299. 



