110 MELONGENA. 



This, and the two following, are located in Melongena with 

 much doubt. 



M. Cancellarioides, Reeve. PI. 43, fig. 231. 



Whitish, ridges reddish brown. Length, 47 mill. 



? China. 

 M. SPADICEA, Kobelt. PI. 43, fig. 230. 



Yellowish. Length, 2 inches. 



JIab. unknown. 



Kobelt thinks it not improbable that this is an Austrofiisus ; 

 I place it here on account of the coloration which corresponds 

 with Melongena. 



M. Bernardiana, Phil. 

 Not figured. Said to resemble Fasus turbineJloides, Reeve = 



31. i^cbllida, Brod. and Sowb. 



Marquesas Isles. 

 M. PUGILINA, Born. PI. 43, figs. 220-222. 



Chestnut-brown ; aperture orange-yellow ; epidermis dark 



brown, pilose. Length, 3-4 inches. 



Indian Ocean. 

 M. PARADisiACA, Rccve. PL 43, figs. 223-225. 



Whitish or yellowish, either unbauded, or encircled with 

 numerous light brown bauds , aperture flesh-yellow to orange ; 

 shoulder smooth or defined b}' low tubercles. Length, 2-3 inches. 



Bed Sea; Ceylon; MozamMque ; Natal. 



The specific name is given by Reeve and others as of Martini, 

 who was not a binomial writer. I cannot cite him as authority 

 and in sulistitutiug Reeve I pass over several intervening, ditfer- 

 ent names given b}' other autliors : the species is so well known 

 as paradisiaca that to change it would be inadvisable. A yellow 

 form, without tubercles (fig. 224), was called by Lamarck Pyriila 

 citrina ; whilst the tubercuiate shells were named by him P. 

 nodosa. 



M. COCHLIDITJM, Linn. PL 43, figs. 220, 227. 



Deep chestnut-brown : aperture j'ellowish or white. 



Length, 3*5-6 inches. 



Indian Ocean; Raines^ Isl., Torres Sts. — Capt. Ince, 



Somewliat resembling the dark-colored, tubercuiate variety of 

 M. ^JU(/tZi»a, Born, but a larger shell, thinner, and with the 

 tubercles or sliort spines larger and much less numerous. 



