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Melania Scipio. Testa magna, solida, lanceolata, truncata, 

 picea, sursum rufescens et flammulis longitudinalibus fuscis ma- 

 gis ac magis picta (juvenibus valde subulatis et epidermide 

 tomentoso quoque indulis) creberrime et minutissime decussato- 

 striata : spira anfr. superstitibus 4-5 (integris 12-15) planulatis, 

 obliquis ; sutura impressa et marginata : apertura triangularis, 

 valde effusa, postice sub-canaliculata ; regione columellari tumi- 

 do ; columella planulata, acuta, alba : intus plumbea. Long. 1^, 

 (integer 3) lat. ^ poll. Hab. Samoa and Feejee Islands. 



About the size and form of M. funiculus, Quoy, but has a 

 longer and more acute aperture. M. aspirans, Hinds, is still 

 larger and more solid, less convex whorls, a darker and less vari- 

 egated surface. Besides its dark pitchy color changing towards 

 the tip to flammulated fawn color covered by a velvety epidermis, 

 it may be known by its minute, close set revolving lines. 



Melania Vainafa. Testa elongato-conica, leevis, badia (ju- 

 nioribus herbaceis et lineolis flexuosis fuscis pictis) : spira decol- 

 lata, anfr. 4-5 superstitibus, subplanulatis, ultimo plerumque striis 

 distantibus cincto ; sutura marginata : apertura ovata, testse qua- 

 drantem sequans. Long. J, lat. f'^ poll. iZai. Falls of Vainafa, 

 Upolu. 



It has the form and general color of small, smooth specimens 

 of M. Virginica, but the whorls are more flattened, and the front 

 of the aperture is more rounded. 



Melania scitula. Testa gracilis, elongato-conica, decollata, 

 epidermide piceo induta : spira anfr. superstitibus ad 5 valde con- 

 vexis, supernis longitudinaliter plicatis, infernis spiraliter liratis, 

 prsecipue juxta suturam et ad basim : apertura obovata, quadran- 

 tem testae baud aquans, antice aliquanto producta ; fauce livido. 

 Long. I-, lat. I poll. Hab. Upolu. 



It has the form and size of M. ahjecta, Hald., from Alabama, 

 also of M. truncatula. Lam. It is more robust, paler, and the 

 folds are more prominent and on more whorls than in M. plicata. 

 Lea. 



Melania silicula. Testa parva, gracilis, sub-cylindrica, trun- 

 cata, epidermide fusco-castaneo induta : spira anfr. ad 4 super- 

 stitibus, rotundatis, spiraliter liratis, supernis longitudinaliter pli- 



