MELANIID-E. 219 



Genus CLAVIGER, Haldeman. 



Silliman's Journal, 1842, type Nerita aurita, MMler ;^Vihex, Gray, 

 P. Zool. S. 1847, type " Nerita aurita," not Vihex, Gray, 1840, or 

 OJcen, Zool. 1817 (fide Brof], 



1. Claviger auritus. 



Nerita aiirita, Milller, Sist. Verm., 1774, Eah. ? ; fide Brof, = Stromlus 

 tympanorum, Chemnitz, =Io rota, Reeve, var. = Mel. subaurifa. Brat = 

 Mel. soriculata, Morelet. 



1 Senegal ; ex c. A. Morelet, Esq. , 



Agrees with M. Brot's pi. 36, fig. 7 A. 



var. subrota. 

 1 W. Africa ; ex c. Asiatic Soc. Bengal. 



Long. 34|^, diam. 17 mil. A remarkable form, intermediate 

 between M. Brot's pi. 36, fig. 7B, and pi. 37, fig. 2. Spire 

 very short ; nodules fewer than usual, more distant and more 

 oblique, somewhat larger ; white, with three brown bands on the 

 last whorl. 



Genus LARTETIA, Bourguignat. 



Moll. Quartern. Paris, 1869, type L. helgarandi, Bourg. ,- L. lowrguignati. 

 Pal. \_only living sp.'],from Peronne {Dep. Heraulf] ; fide Cles., NacMr., 

 1878, p. 126, closely allied to Baicalia ; fide Sdb., Conch. T'ortvelf, 

 p. 690 ^^Goniochilus, Sdb. 1870, type Pleuroceras costulatitm, Fuchs, 

 fossil 0/ the Lotver Pleiocene from Radmanest =^Micromelania, Bru- 

 sina, 1874. 



This and the following form are not in the Museum. 



Genus ONCOMELANIA, Gredler. 

 Jahrb. 1881, p. 120, type 0. htipensis, Gredl. [Prov, Hunayi'], 



Genus TIPHOBIA, E. A. Smith. 

 P. Zool. S. 1880, type T, Horei, Smith [Lake Tanganyika], 



