141 AURICULA. 
-uricula avena. Pfr. Syn. Auric. n. 151. 
Cassidula avena (Siona) H. et .4. /J4dams in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854. 
pw325mno 14 
-- — . (Sarnia) H. et .4. 4dams Gen, rec. Moll. p. 239. 
Habitat prope Valparaiso reipublicae Chilensis. 
IX. Alexia Leach. 
Testa oblongo-ovata, tenuis; spira acuminata; anfractus 
ultimus magnus, basi rotundatus; apertura latiuscula, acuminato- 
ovalis; paries aperturalis plicis 1— 5 tuberculiformibus munitus; 
plica columellaris obliqua; peristoma subexpansum, margine 
dextro intus calloso vel dentato. 
Alexia Leach 1818. Cat. (Conf. Zeitschr. f. Malak. 1849. p. 57.) 
— . Gray 1847 in Proc, Zool. Soc. XV. p. 179. 
— . Moórch Cat. Yold. |. p. 38. 
— . H. et A4. A4dams 1854 in Proc. Zool. Soc. XXI. p. 32. 
— Pfr. in Malakoz. Bl. I. 1854. p. 151. 
—  AH.et A. Adams 1855. Gen. rec. Moll. II. p. 241. Conf. supra p. 7. 
Phytia Gray 1821 in Lond. Med. Repos. XV. p. 231. 
Ovatella Gray 1840 in Turt, Man. ed. nov, p. 225: subgenus Conovuli *) 
Turbinis sp. Walk. 
Volutae sp. Mont., Mat.. Wood etc. 
Auriculae sp. Drap., Fér, Lam. etc. 
Jaminiae sp. Bromn. 
Carychü sp. Fér., Mich. 
Ovatellae sp. Biv. 
Acteonis sp. Flem. 
Pythia (ex parte) Beck. 
Melampodis sp. Stimps. 
Species hue relatae revera terrestres sunt, optime pro- 
bante A. Moquin-Tandon (1851 in Journ. Conch. Il. p. 
348), assentientibus observatoribus recentissimis, etsi diu ab 
auctoribus pro marinis habitae sint. 'Testae omnes (excepta 
A. denliculata) habitu inter se persimiles sunt, quamvis in 
diversissimis ferrae regionibus occurrentes; scrutatori tamen 
apertura albida; peristomate simplice; columella triplieata; anfr. 6. — Alt. 
21/, lat. li/; lin. (Küst., l. c.) 
*) Pillar 3—5-plaited; mouth toothed; peristome slightly reflexed. Pa- 
ludinal, (Gray l. c.) 
