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



Observations. — This brilliant species, with its four well defined, 

 dark brown bands on a dark yellow, is allied to fascinans herein 

 Fig 643 tlescribed, and to Melania pupoidea, Antli., but it is shorter 

 and more robust than either. The five specimens before 

 me are very nearly of the same size, and all have four beau- 

 tiful bands which ai'e somewhat close, and give a darkish 

 color to the whole. The aperture is more than one-third 

 the length of tlie shell. — Lea. 



Very closely allied to G. Alabamense, Lea. 



251. G. propria. Lea. 



Melania propria. Lea, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., p. 118, 1861. 



Goniohasis propria, LEA, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., v, pt. 3, p. 229, t. 34, f. 21, March, 

 1863. Obs., ix, p. 52. 



Description. — Shell smooth, fusiform, yellowish-olive, four-banded, 

 rather thick ; spire obtusely conical ; sutures impressed ; whorls six, 

 slightly convex ; aperture somewhat large, elongately ellip- rig. 644. 

 tical, whitish within and banded; outer lip acute; columella 

 inflected, white and subangular at base. 



Habitat. — Alabama; E. E. Showalter, M.D. 



Diameter, -Zi ; length, 'SO of an inch. 



Observations. — This is a regular fusiform species, with an 

 agreeable outline near to that of gracilior herein described. It is not 

 so stout a shell and is rather smaller, and having bands cannot be 

 easily confounded with that species. The aperture is more than half 

 the length of the shell, and the apex is quite pointed. — Lea. 



252. G. negata, Lea. 



Goniohasis negata, Lea, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., p. 271, 1862. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., 

 V, pt. 3, p. 337, t. 38, f. 200, March, 1863. Obs., ix, p. 159. 



Description. — Shell striate, elliptical, subconical, thick, yellowish, 

 four-banded ; spire obtusely conical ; sutures very much and very 

 irregularly impressed ; whorls six, somewhat convex, the last large ; 

 aperture rather small, ovate, white within, and four-banded ; outer 

 lip sharp, slightly thickened ; columella bent in, thickened, obtusely 

 angular at the base. 



Operculum ovate, rather thin, light brown, with the polar point 

 near to the base. 



