OF CONOHOLOGY. 20 T 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW EXOTIC MELANIA. 



BY JOHN Q. ANTHONY. 



Melania gloriosa, Anthony. — t. 18, f. 2. 



Description. — Shell ovate-conic, smooth, olivaceous; spire 

 elevated, but abruptly decollate, exhibiting only four whorls, 

 which are convex and quite broad; sutures very deep 

 and distinct; lines of growth remarkably prominent, often 

 amounting to varices, and with revolving strise less prominent, 

 but, nevertheless, distinct, decussating with them; aperture 

 large, ovate, blotched with reddish-brown within; columella 

 very much curved, thickened with a white callus, and forming, 

 with the sinuous outer lip, a lengthened, but not very decided 

 sinus at base. 



Dimensions. — Length (as eroded) 2*5 inches, breadth 1 inch. 

 Length of aperture 1 inch, breadth of aperture '7 inch. 



Habitat. — Pegu. 



Mus. Gomp. Zoology, Cambridge. Cabinet of George W= 

 Tryon, Jr. 



Observations. — Belongs to a group of which M. hercuJea, 

 Gould, may be cited as an example, but is much larger, has 

 never such regular folds as that species, nor are its concentric 

 stride so prominent as to form nodulous ridges as in M, hercu- 

 lea ; it is probably one of the most ponderous species of the 

 genus; the revolving striae are more prominent near the su- 

 tures, and at the base of the shell they are also much crowded 

 and more elevated. 



