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IJulimus ovuIks Brugiere, Ency. Metli., 1, p. 330, 1789. 



Auricula nitens Lamai-ck, An. s. Vert., vi, pt. 2, p. 141,1822. 



Auricula ovula F6russac, Prodr., p. 104, 1821. 



Auricula ovula D'Orbigny, Moll. Cuba, 1, p. 1H6, pi. xiii, figs. 1-3 (excl. leg. 



tab.). 

 Tralia pmilla Gray, Tart. Man., ed. ii, ].. 21, 1840. 

 Auricula Itucoclonta Nuttall, MSS. teste Pfeifftr. 

 Melampus pusillus Pfr., Mon. Aur. Viv., p. 46, 18.36. 

 Tralia imAUa IT. & A. Ad., Gen. Rec. Moll., ii, p. 244, pi. 82, fig. 8, 1855; W. 



G. Biuuey, I.e., ii, p. 17, 1865. 



nahitat. — Cuba, Martinique, Santa Lucia, D'Orbigny; Cuba, Ja- 

 maica, Guadalupe, and Porto Rico, A ran go ; Bermuda, C. B. Adams; 

 Florida, Binney and Stearns; Sandwich Islands, Pfeiffer(?). 



This species is easily recognized by its pure brown color, three i)laits, 

 and the single ridge on the inside of the impressed outer lip. 



The names of (imeliu and Brngiere appeared in the same year. Most 

 naturalists have followed the former. The much more characteristic 

 name of Donovan we are unfortunately obliged to reject as a synonym. 



Auricula pananiensis of C. B. Adams belongs to the restricted sub- 

 genus. It is smaller, more compressed, darker colored, and with a 

 more sinuous outer lip than the Antillean shell, but is otherwise extremely 

 similar. 



Subgenus Alexia Gray. 



Auricula Draijarnaud, Tabl., p. 53, 1801 ; Gould, Inv. Mats., p. 199, 1841. 



Alexia Gray (as of Leach MSS.), P. Z. S., 1847, p. 179. 



Ovatella Gray, Tnrt. Man., 2d ed., pp. 15, 225, 1840; P. Z. S., 1847, p. 179, 



olim; Moquin Taudou, Moll. Fr., ii, p. 415, 1855. Not Ovatella Bivona, 



1832. 

 Conovulus Gray, Tiirt. Man., .3d ed., p. 192, 1857. 

 Carychimn Blaiuvillc, Mai., j). 453, 1825; Michaud, Compl. Drap., p. 73, 1832; 



ex parte. 

 Melampus, sp., Jeffreys, Brit. Conch., v, p. 106, 1869. 

 Volula, sp., Montague, Turton, Berkeley. 

 Actmoti, sp., Fleming. 

 Jaminia, sp.. Brown. 



Pylhia, sp.. Gray, 1821.; Beck, 1839 {=Phitia Blainville as of Gray). 

 Monica II. & A. Adams, Gen. Rec. Moll., ii, p. 247, 1855. 



Shell elevated; outer lip thickened by a ridge of callus within the 

 edge; callus simple or denticulated; no lirse or' longitudinal ridges; 

 other characters as in Tralia. Type Valuta deniiculata Montague. 



Tralia (Alexia) myosotis Draparnand. 



Auricula mnosotis Drap., Tabl., p. 53, 1801; Hist., p. 56, 1805; Jeffreys, Lin. 



Trans , xvi, p. .368. 

 Valuta denticulafa Montague, Test. Brit., p. 234, pi. 20, fig. 5, 1802 ; Turton, 



Conch. Diet., p. 234, 1819. 

 Actwon denticulatus Fleming, Brit. An., p. 337, 1828. 

 Jaminia deniiculata Brown, Conch. Gt. Brit., 1st ed., pi. 51, fig. (J, 1827 ; 2d 



ed., p. 22, pi. viii, f. 6, 1844. 

 Jaminia quinquedens Brown, 1st ed., 1. c, pi. 5l, fig. 11; 2d ed., p. 22, pi. viii, 



fig. 11, 1844. 



