MELANIA.— Plate XX. 



The siphoned Melania. Shell fusiformly conical, solid, 

 olive-black, whorls six to seven, spirally closely ridge- 

 striated, slanting at the upper part, then gibbously 

 angled ; aperture ovate, produced and effused at the 

 base, columellar lip thinly reflected. 



Hob. ? 



A shell of very peculiar fusiform growth, attenuately 

 produced at the base, with the whorls bulging out at the 

 periphery into an obtuse angle. 



Species 144. (Fig. a, Mns. V. d. Busch, 

 Pig. b, Mus. Cuming.) 



Melania balteata. Mel. testa pyramidali-subulatd, 

 virescente-olivaced, fascia unicd castaned medio cingu- 

 latd, anfractibus novem, declivi-planatis, lavibus, su- 

 perne spiraliter sulcato-striatis ; aperturd ovatd, ad 

 basin subproductd et effusd, columella contorto-arcuatd. 



The belted Melania. Shell pyramidally subulate, 

 greenish-olive, encircled round the middle with a 

 single chestnut band, whorls nine, slopiugly flattened, 

 smooth, spirally groove-striated at the upper part ; 



aperture ovate, somewhat produced and effused at the 

 base, columella twistedly arched. 

 llab. ? 



This appears to me to be a very distinct and well-de- 

 fined species. 



Species 145. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Melania lumbricus. Mel. testa oblongo-conicd, subtur- 

 riculatd, olivaceo-spadiced, infra suturas pallida', an- 

 fraclibus septem,plano-convexis,undique dense spiraliter 

 striato-liratis ; aperturd ovatd, ad basin effusd. 



The grub Melania. Shell oblong-conical, somewhat 

 turriculated, olive-bay, pale beneath the sutures, 

 whorls seven, flatly convex, spirally closely striately 

 ridged throughout ; aperture ovate, effused at the 

 base. 



Sab. Para; Brazil. 



Striately ridged and coloured after the manner of M. 

 spadicea, but the colour is uniformly paler on the upper 

 half of each whorl, and the. shell is more turriculated. 



