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marshes. We propose to include with them the genus Pedipes, adopted 
after a shell which was called by Adanson Le Piétin; the genus Melam- 
pus of De Montford, adopted by Lamarck with the title of Conovulus, but 
subsequently abandoned ; the genus Carychium of Miller, and a few other 
genera introduced by Gray ; and we refer such of the Lamarckian species 
as are inhabitants of a dry soil, A. caprella, Silent, leporis, bovina, &c., to 
the genus Bulimus. 
The shell of Auricula may then be described as being ovate, or ovately 
oblong, and covered with a dark brown epidermis, the columella being 
dentated or strongly plaited ; the aperture is longitudinal, and entire at 
the base, without indication of any canal or sinus ; the margins are some- 
what thickened, disjoined superiorly, and the lip is either simple or 
reflected. The Auriculz are never operculated. 
Examples. 
Pl. CLXXXVII. Fig. 1. 
Auricuta Pepira, Pfeiffer, Wiegmann’s Archives Nat. Hist., 1840. 
Marinula Pepita, King, Zool. Journ., vol. v. p. 344. 
Pl. CLXXXVII._ Fig. 2. 
AURICULA LABRELLA, Deshayes, Enc. Méth. vers, vol. ii. p. 92; new 
edit. of Lamarck, vol. viii. p. 337 ; Mag. de Conch., pl. 14. f. 14. 
Pl. CLXXXVII, Fig. 3. 
AURICULA AUSTRALIS, Quoy, Voy. de l’Astrolabe, vol. 11. p. 169. pl. 13. 
f. 34 to 38. 
Melampus ovatus, Gray. 
Pl. CLXXXVII. Fig. 4. 
Avuricuta Jup#, Lamarck, Anim. sans vert., new edit,, vol. vuli. p. 325. 
Martini, Conch., vol. ii. pl. 44. f. 449 to 451. 
Voluta auris Jude, Linneus. 
Helix auris Jude, Miller. 
Bulimus auris Jude, Bruguiére. 
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