140 MOLLUSCA. 
Melania furfurosa, GouLp ; Proceed. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 11. 225. 
July 1847. Expedition Shells, 47. 
Suet of medium size, rather fragile, of a pale fawn or wood-colour, 
with a range of darker spots just in front of the suture; tip dark; sur- 
face marked with unequal, arcuated lines of growth, which are crossed 
by crowded, raised, revolving strie, by which innumerable little pits 
are left, which give it a dead, roughened aspect. Spire entire, 
rapidly tapering, pyramidal, of seven very transverse, very convex 
whorls, separated by a profound suture. ‘The last is large and almost 
globular, a little more than half the leugth of the shell. The upper 
whorls are delicately and obliquely plicate. Aperture not quite half 
the length of the shell, obliquely lunate, effuse at the base of the colu- 
mella. Interior pale cinnamon-colour. 
Length three-fourths of an inch; breadth three-eighths of an inch. 
Obtained at Manila. 
Allied to M. scabra, which is more elongated, and its whorls much 
less cylindrical, its striz coarse and distant, and crowned with spino- 
tubercles. 
Figures 162, 162 a, two views of the shell. 
MELANIA ScITULA (Gould). 
Testa gracilis, elongato-conica, decollata, epidermide piceo induta: spira 
anfractibus superstitibus ad quinque valde convexis, supernts longitudi- 
naliter plicatis, infernis spiraliter liratis, pracipue juxta suturam et 
ad basim: apertura obovata, quadrantem teste haud e@quans, antice 
aliquanto producta ; fauce huida. 
Melania scitula, Goutp; Proceed. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 11. 224. 
June 1847. Expedition Shells, 46. 
Suet slender, elougated, covered with a very dark chestnut or 
pitch-coloured epidermis. Spire with about five well-rounded whorls, 
several others being lost from the apex. The upper whorls are longi- 
