192 LAND AND FRESH-WATER SHELLS OF N. A. [PART IV. 



small nodes. I dedicate this species to my friend, President Lindsley 

 of Nashville, who sent it to me with many other shells from the 

 streams of Tennessee. — Lea. 



68. G. paupereula, Lea. 



Goniohasis paupereula, Lea, Pioc. Acad. Nat. Sci., p. 2G8, 18G2. Jour. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci., V, pt. 3, p. 324, t. 38, f. 176, March, 18G3. Obs., ix, p. 116. 



Description. — Shell folded, subcylindrical, rather thin, chestnut- 

 color or dark olive, without bands; spire rather short, sutures im- 

 pressed; whorls somewhat convex, folded above and striate at the 



apex; aperture small, ovately rhomboidal, whitish 

 Fig. 376. Fig. 377. ^ ' ^ 



within; outer lip acute, slightly sinuous; columella 



bent in and slightly twisted. 



Operculum ovate, thin, light brown, with the polar 

 point well in from the margin and above the base. 

 Habitat. — North Alabama; Prof. Tuoraey. 

 Diameter, -27 ; length, -63 of an inch. 



Observations. — I have quite a number of this small species sent 

 many years since by Prof. Tuomey, not a single one with an entirely 

 perfect apex, being usually decollate at the second whorl from the 

 base. Most of them, therefore, do not exhibit the folds, which are 

 only on the upper whorls ; there they are pretty close and perpen- 

 dicular. They wei-e all covered with black oxide of iron, which on 

 being removed exhibits a smooth, brown or greenish epidermis. The 

 aperture is probably not one-third the length of the shell. — Lea. 



69, G. corneola, Anthony. 



ATelania corneola, Anthony, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., p. 61, Fel)., 1860. Binnet. 

 Check List, No. 68. Brot, List, p. 35. Reeve, Monog. Melauia, sp. 456, 



Description. — Shell small, conical, rather thin; spire short Fig. 378. 

 and not very acute, composed of live or six subconvex a 

 whorls ; whorls all more or less folded and with revolving ^p 

 raised striae, which give them a subnodulous appearance ; the 

 body-whorl has four or five faint bands, whicli appear also within 

 the aperture; apei'ture small, ovate ; sinus small. 



Habitat. — Alabama. My cabinet. 



Observations. — This is a small and not very remarkable species nor 

 can it well be compared with any other. One is at first view forcibly 



