MELANIA.— Plate IX. 



dingy-olive, whorls ten to twelve, encircled with a 

 few superficial irregular linear grooves, longitudinally 

 irregularly wrinkle-striated ; aperture ovate, columel- 

 lar margin callous. 



Philippi, MS. in Mus. V. d. Busch. 



Hab. ? 



A very distinct and well-defined species, though of 

 simple character. The superficial grooving and striatum 

 would appear from its irregularity and wrinkled character 

 to exist only in the shining dingy-olive epidermis. 



Species 48. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Melania acuta. Mel. testa tereti, fusco-nigrd, anfrac- 

 tibus undecim ad duodecim, Icevibus, convexis, superne 

 superficialiter constrictis ; aperturd ovatd, margine 

 cohimellari calloso-incurvo. 



The sharp Melania. Shell tapering, fuscous-black, 

 whorls eleven to twelve, smooth, convex, superficially 

 constricted at the upper part ; aperture ovate, colu- 

 mellar margin callously incurved. 



Lea, Obs. vol. iv. p. 70. 



Hab. Arroo Isles. 



A light, smooth shell, of shining fuscous-black, having 

 the whorls delicately superficially constricted round the 

 upper part. 



Species 49. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Melania figurata. Mel. testd anguste subulatd, oliva- 

 ced,Jlammis brevibus purpureo-rujis infra suturas cin- 

 gulatd, deinde lineis purpureo-riifis interrupts, an- 

 fractibus duodecim ad tredecim, convexo-planatis, la- 

 vibus ; aperturd parvd. 



The figured Melania. Shell narrowly subulate, olive, 

 encircled below the sutures with short purple-red 

 flames, then with interrupted purple-red lines, whorls 

 twelve to thirteen, convexly flattened, smooth ; aper- 

 ture small. 



Hinds, Moll. Voy. Sulphur, p. 56. pi. 15. f. 13. 



Hab. New Hebrides ; Hinds. 



An excellent species, not figured, I regret to say, in 

 the accompanying Plate, with Mr. Sowerby's usual suc- 

 cess. The coloured flames appear only on the upper part 

 of the whorls, not on the lower part as well, as depicted 

 in the penultimate whorl of our figure; and the lower 

 portion of each whorl is delicately painted with interrupted 

 transverse lines of colour. 



