LAND- AND FRESHWATER SHELLS. 157 



The specimens have the appearance of being young, 

 they resemble in sculpture some of the foregoing varieties, 

 but the striae are less distant from each other; they have 

 brown flames and are faintly banded about the periphery, 

 with a darker band near the base of the last whorl. 



22. Melania turriculus Lea. 



Brot, Mou. Melania, I.e. p. 239; Taf. 25, fig. 7, 1\ 

 Locality: Isle Groot Bastaard, near the northern coast 

 of Flores. 



Besides by the sculpture described by Dr. Brot, the speci- 

 mens are covered with microscopical spiral striae. 



23. Melania spec. 



Localities : Massoe , Waingapoe , hills and rivershores 

 near Waingapoe , mixed with sea-shells (subfossil), Soemba. 



Dr. Brot did not know this species, but thought that 

 more material ought to be compared before it could be 

 described as new or regarded as a variety of any described 

 species. The shell resembles M. turriculus Lea in sculpture , 

 but it is rather different in form. 



24. Melania scabra Muller. 



Brot, Mou. Melania, I.e. p. 266; Taf. 27, fig. 14, 15. 



Localities : Rivers of N. W. Soemba ; Massoe , central 

 S. E. Soemba; Waingapoe; hills and rivershores near 

 Waingapoe , Soemba , mixed with sea-shells (subfossil). 



The specimens belong to a much elongated variety ; 

 those of the last named localities have no spines on the 

 last whorls. 



25. Melania arm ill at a Lea. 



Brot, Mou. Melania, I.e. p. 309; Taf. 32, fig. 5. 

 Localities : Hills and rivershores near Waingapoe, Soemba, 

 mixed with sea-shells (subfossil). 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XIV. 



