MELANIA.— Plate V. 



Species 26. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Melania crenulata. Mel. testa subulatd, intense olivaced, 

 anfractibus decern ad undecim, convexis, superne sub- 

 contracts, spiraliter late plauiUrutis et sulcatis, liris 

 superioribiisquadrato-granatis; aperturdoblougo-ovatd, 

 margine columellari calloso-appressd. 



The ckenulated Melania. Shell subulate, dark-olive, 

 whorls ten to eleven, convex, a little contracted at 

 the upper part, spirally broadly flatly ridged and 

 grooved, uppermost ridges square-grained ; aperture 

 oblong-ovate, columella! - margin callously appressed. 



Helix turrita-crenulata, Chemnitz, Condi. Cab. xi. p. 165. 



Melania crenulata, Deshayes. 



Melania Tirouri, Ferussac. 



Melania Tirouri and Celebensis, Quoy. 



Melania aculeus, Lea. 

 Hah. Philippine Islands. 



An extremely variable species, though presenting in all 

 its varieties few or more transverse grooves, with the 

 intermediate ridges crenulatcd through being cut into 

 flattened quadrate warts or grains by longitudinal en- 

 graved strise. 



