M E L A N I A . 



Plate XV. 



99. i'Mm, Cumii 



Melania floeicoma. M>-/. testa rubulatd, tenm 



pellucidd Jlavicante castaneo-i *, undique fulyuratd, 

 anfractibu decern ad wndecim, plano-t \pira- 



liter sulcato-striatis et crispai aperturd oblongo- 



or n Id. 



The flowered Melania. Shell subulate, thin, 

 transparent, yellowish, lightning-marked thro 

 with chestnut-red, whorls ten toeleven, < l 

 spirally groove-striated, an oblong- 



ate. 



Eab. ? 



A transparent yellowish shell, flamed throughout with 

 zigzag red-brown streaks, and encircled with fine linear 

 grooves, the interstices between which are minutely 

 puckered or crisped. 



Pig. LOO. (Mus. Cuming.) 



The shell here figured is th punctulata of 

 ghbourhood of Alexandria, 



but thi that it is a varii 



.]] . tuberculoid. All the varietie black- 



i. but the dots are chiefly 



varieties. In the more strongly tubercled varieties the 

 dor- are nearly obsolete. 



ies 101. (Mus. V. d. Busch.) 



Melania Si Mel. testa subulato-turritd, Jla- 



u co Jlammatd, anfractibus decern, 

 \tundalu, Iambus, ob ■ 

 turd ovatd. 



Melania. Shell subulately turreted, yellow- 

 ish-olive, flamed with red-brown, whorls ten, 

 what rounded, smooth, obscurely spirally ridged, aper- 

 ture ovate. 

 Philippi, Abbild. and Resell. Conch, vol. i. p. 64. pi. 2. 



f. 11. 

 Hah. suburbs of the city of Mexico (in stream 

 ditches) ; Sehi 



A semitransparent. smooth shell, of light 

 bedaubed longitudinally with reddish stre 



V. d. liusch.) 



A variety of M. pyramis, described and figured at I'l. 

 10, Pig. 51, in which the whorls are rounded and tin- 

 shell less eloogately convolo 



.Mus. V. d. Buscb.) 



Melania Judaica. v 

 leo-fuscd, 

 regulariter liralis; aperturd parvd, margi 

 hir'i calloso-incurvo. 



The Jewish Melania. .Shell subulate, solid, rather 

 narrow, chestnut-brown, whorls convex, closely irre- 

 gularly rid ighout, aperture small, columellar 

 margin callously incur-. 

 Malak. Blitt. vol. ii. f. ;:;. pi. 2. f. I 3. 



Eab. ? 



growth, said to be, v. hen in fine 



tion, of a rich brown colour throughout. 



!-. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Melania Layaedi. Mel. testa ehngato-lurritd, tolidi- 

 ■■■>>. purpureo-fu 



/alii, anfractibus decern ad undecim, roimmdatit, 



tudinaliter plicatis, spvraliter 



U '. ■ aperturd parvd. 

 LaYABD's Mel/ ;ately turreted, rather 



solid, dark-olive, sparingly dotted with purple- . 



whorls ten to eleven, rouii idinally plicated, 



spindly closely I what channelled. 



aperture small. 

 DoHRN, i p. 135. 



Hab. Ceylon; E. I.. Layard. 



Tlii - cry much . I 



lands, in colouring, but is 

 more slenderly turreted form. 



.•:s 10.'). fMus. Curning.j 



Melania phlebotokum. Mel. testa aciculari-subulatd, 

 uatd, ii'i'ji 



yngitudina 





