MELANIA JUNGHUHNI. '35 



Ï^OTE XVI. 

 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW MELANIDAE 



BT 



M. M. SCHEPMAN. 



(Plate 2). 



Amongst the Melanidae of the Leydeu Museum , many 

 species were unknown to me, so 1 submitted them all to 

 the judgment of the late Dr. A. Brot , who declared many 

 of them to be doubtful , which I have indicated in the 

 Catalogue of the Museum by a note of interrogation ; a 

 few others, however, seemed also to this much regretted 

 authority to be new to science and so I ventured to describe 

 them as follows. 



1. Melania Junghuhni^ n. sp. 

 (Plate 2, fig. 1). 



Shell elongately-ovate , thin, yellowish-olive, banded or 

 flamed with brown , apex eroded , remaining whorls 6 to 8, 

 flatly convex, closely ridged, with about 16 ridges on the 

 penultimate whorl; base of last whorl with some stronger 

 ridges; moreover the shell is covered with lines of growth. 

 Sutures distinct , but not deep. Aperture ovately oblong , 

 upper angle acute, base produced. Columella white, 

 curved ; outer margin thin , slightly crenulate ; interior of 

 aperture bluish white, with one or two brown bands, or 

 more or less flamed with brown. Operculum small, with 

 very few volutions and a central nucleus. 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum., Vol. XVIII. 



