166 AURICULACEA. 



white, subequal folds, its columellar portion both short and 



callous. 



Length, 7| ; diameter, Al ; aperture in length almost 5, 



in breadth 1^ millimetres. 



Geographical Distribution. Florida Keys. (Bartlett.) 

 Remarks. Pfeiffer compares it with Mel. cingulatus. 



It appears to me easily distinguished from that and the 



other species of the United States. 



MELAMPUS FLAVUS Gjielin. 



T. imperforata, obconica, tevigata, castanea, fasciis 3 angustis pallidis 

 ornata ; spira brevis, convexo-conoidea, mucroiiata ; sutura linearis ; anfr. 

 9-10, superi plaiiiusculi, ultimus | long, fere a?quans, basi arcuato-crista- 

 tus ; apertura subverticalis, angusta, basi angulata ; pliua 1 parietalis 

 profunda; plica columellaris valida, subverticalis, ad basim porrecta; 

 perist. rectum, acutum, margine dextro fusco-labiato, intus albo-calloso, 

 costis sub 10 transversis, brevibus ! munito, columellari calloso, dilatato. 

 (Pfr.) 



SYNONYMS AND REFERENCES. 



Lister Hist. t. 834, fig. 60. 

 Favanne Conch, t. 65, fig. H, i. 



Auricula Midce. parva, &c. 1\Iart. and Ciiemn. ii. p. 119, 126. t. 43, f. 445. 

 Vuluta n. 106, Schroter, Einl. i. p. 272. 

 Vohdajlava Gmelin, Syst. p. 3436, No. 5. 

 DiLLWYN, Cat. i. p. 506, n. 17. 

 Valuta Jlammea y Gmelin, 1. c. 3435, n. i. 

 Bulimus moniU Bkuguiere, Encycl. Mctli. i. p. 338, n. 70. 

 Melampa monile Schweiggek, Handb. p. 739. 

 Conovulus monile Goldfus, Hand, p. 657. 

 Conovulus jlavus Anton, Verz. 1776. 

 Auricula monile Ferussac, Podr. p. 105. 



Lamark, Hist. vi. 2, p. 141: ed. Desh. viii. p. 333. 

 KusTER in Cheraii. ed. 2, Auric, p. 30, pi. iv. figs. 7-9. 

 Auricula Jlava Deshayes in Lara. viii. p. 33. 



Petit, Journ. Conch, ii. 1851, p. 427. 

 Auricula coniformis Orbigny, Cuba. 

 Melampus monile Lowe, Zool. Journ. v. p. 292. 



Beck, Ind. p. 108. 

 Melamjms minutus (3 Beck, 1. c. 107. 

 Melampus Jluvus Adams, Contr. p. 42, 186. 

 PoEY, Mem. i. 394. 

 Pfeiffer, Mon. Auric. Viv. 21. 



