MELANIA.— Plate XXII. 



greenish, sparsely filleted with purple-brown, spire 

 peculiarly produced, whorls nine to ten, finely decus- 

 sately striated, slopingly angled at the upper part, 

 longitudinally closely plicately ridged, ridges short- 

 spined upon the angle, angle and ridges gradually 

 disappearing on the last and penultimate whorls ; 

 aperture ovate, a little effused at the base, lip faintly 

 notched at the upper part. 



Adams, Pro. Zool. Soc. 1853, p. 99. 



Hub. New Zealand. 



This very interesting species is of much less solid struc- 

 ture than the preceding, and the sculpture, instead of be- 

 coming stronger as the shell advances to maturity, gradu- 

 ally disappears. 



Species 160. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Melania Bkoti. Mel. testa ovato-turrltd, solidiusculd, 

 ustulato-olivaced, anfractibus panels, undique decussa- 

 tim eorrugato-llratls, superne concavo-angulatls, ad 

 unguium spinoso-tuberculatis ; apertard parviiisculd, 

 ad basin truncate!, labro superne emarglnato. 



Brotis's Melania. Shell ovately turreted, rather solid, 

 burnt-olive, whorls few, decussately wrinkle-ridged 

 throughout, concavely angled at the upper part, spi- 

 nously tubercled at the angle ; aperture rather small, 

 truncated at the base, lip notched at the upper part. 



Dohrn, MS. in Mus. Cuming. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



Strongly grain-wrinkled throughout, and conspicuously 

 coronated with spine-tubercles. 



