MELAMPUS $. 1. 9. 19 
Voluta bullaoides Turt. Conch. Dict. p. 254. n. 13. 
Tornatella bullaoides l'ér. Prodr. p. 108. n. 7. 
Auricula multivolvis Jeffr. in Linn. Trans. XIII. 1820. p. 516. 
—  bullaoides Gray in Ann. of Philos. 1825. XV. 
Melampus bulla Lome in Zool. Journ. V. p. 293. 
c — Beck Ind. p. 108. n. 15. 
Detracia bullaeoides Gray 1840 in Turt, Man. sec. ed. p. 20, *) 
Conovulus bullaoides Forb. et Hanl. Brit. Moll. IV. p. 197. 
Habitat in India occidentali: St. Vincents (Guilding); Africa 
bor.? (Beck.) 
Obs. 1. Species.adhue dubia, a Cl. Montagu ex auctoritate Musei 
Portlandiani inter testacea britannica enumerata, sed certissime exotica et 
ex Cl. Forbesii et Hanleyi (l. c.) sententia eadem species ac AMel. cingu- 
latus Pfr. Proxime affinis absque dubio speciei illi apparet, sed quin 
eadem sit, figura et descriptio Montaguiana asserere vetant. Quare quaestio 
eruditiorum examini submittenda ! 
Obs, 2. Conf. ad hanc sectionem 74. globulus Fér. $. 2. 
$. 2. 
6. MK. angistomus EBeshayes. T 9 
,A. testa ovato-elongata, laevigata, nitida, flava; spira 
elongata, conica, obtusa; apertura angustata; columella biden- 
tata, labro dextro valde intus marginato, crenato, postice in- 
terrupto. — Long. 16, lat. ( mill* (Desh.) 
Auricula angistoma Desh. in Encycl. méth, Il. p. 93. n. 16. **) 

with eleven or twelve flat spires; these are not divided by any depressed 
line, but each folded over the other, leaving the edge abrupt, and not tur- 
ned inwards: the body volution consists of three fourths of the shell, those 
at the top not only extremely small, but the four or five last decrease so 
suddenly that they form a nipple on the shell, like the stile on the top of 
an acorn, and which it much resembles; the apex is more minute than in 
any shell of its size we ever remember to have seen: the aperture is much 
contracted; the outer lip extends about half the length of the shell; the 
pillar lip quite smooth without any duplieature, but at the base, or lower 
- part of the aperture, the outer lip makes a short revolution, enters the 
aperture, and forms a strong plication or ridge on the columella, the spi- 
ral turn of which may be traced through the shell, although considerably 
thick and opaque; the sudden flexure of the lip that forms the spiral ridge 
on the columella, forms also a sort of canal or gutter. Length three 
eigths of an inch. — 'The form and structure of this curious shell is so- 
mewhat similar to Volu(a tornalilis, and not the least like Bulla fonti- 
nalis, which has been mistaken for it. (Mont, l. c.) 
*) It is oné of the most common shells in the small boxes from the 
West Indies, and forms a particular genus of Auriculae, characterised by 
having only a single plait on the front of the pillar. (Gray l. c.) 
**) Coquille ovale-oblongue, à spire alongée, obtuse, formée de sept 
tours à peine convexes, mais assez larges, à suture simple tres-superficielle. 
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