290 Rev. R. T. Lowe on Melampus, &c. 
taté ; labro stmplici (intus levi plano.) 
Long. 7; unc.; lat. 4. Anfr, 4. 
Hab. Australia. Mecum benevolé communicavit D* G. B. Sowerby. 
Species incerte ; huc forsan referende. 
1, Volnta livida, Linn., Syst. ed. 12. p. 1187. 
“ V. testd coarctatd ovato-cylindricd, spird subelevatd obtusiusculd, 
columelld quinqueplicatd. M.L. U. 591, n. 229.* 
Gualt. test. t. 25, f. B. 
Hab. in Africa. 
Testa livida fasciis transversis, pallidis obsoletis.” Linn., loc. cit. 
2. Auricula Myosotis, Drap. 
** A. testd ovato-conicd (ovato-suboblongd, Drap.) apice acuto, tenui- 
** ter striaté, corneo-fuscescente ; anfractibus convexis ; columella 
“© triplicatd ; labro margine albo, reflexo.”’ Lam. 
Auricula Myosotis, Drap., p. 56, t. 3, f. 16,17. Lam., VE, 2, p. 
140. Feruss., Tabl. Syst. p. 103, No.8. Payr., Catal. p. 104. 
Voluta denticulata, Montag. “ pl. 20, f. 5.” Turt., Dict. No. 2. 
Voluta ringens, Turt., Dict. No. 3. 
Hab. “sur les cétes de la Méditerranée, sur le bois mort et pourri, 
“* dans les lieux humides. Note ; Quelques naturalistes distingués regar- 
*< dent cette espéce comme marine.” Drap.1.c. “ Dans le midi de la 
«« France, prés des cdtes de Ja Méditerranée sur les bois morts et pourris.”’ 
Lam. |]. c. “Les étangs saumatres de la Méditerranée et de l’Océan, 
“© mais sortant de l’eau.’’ Féruss. J. c. “Les bords des eaux saumatres, 
** ou les heux recouverts par la mer dans les momens de tempéte ; sous 
“< les pierres.” Payraud. 1. c. 
There can be little doubt that these two last are the correct habitats of 
the species ; and combining this with the fact of its identity with Voluta 
denticulata of Montagu, the preponderance of evidence is decidedly 
in favour of its belonging to the marine littoral Pectinibranchia.* But 
T have chosen for the present to refer it to the doubtful species of Melam- 
pus, because there seems reason to suspect that the shell is furnished with 
* Pérussac rightly remarks, that it is at least very doubtful whether the 
tentacula are rightly described’ as retractile by Draparnaud. 
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