AURICULIDiE. 15 



nate ; suture linear ; whorls nine to ten, the upper ones rather 

 flat, the last forming nearly three-fourths of the total length, 

 furnished with an arched ridge at its base ; aperture almost per- 

 pendicular, narrow, angled at base ; one parietal plait situated 

 deeply ; columellar plait strong, rather vertical, produced at the 

 base ; peristome straight, acute ; right margin with a brownish 

 internal lip, then whitish-callous, and furnished with about ten 

 short transverse ridges ; columellar margin callous, dilated. 

 Length 12, greatest breadth 8-| mill. 

 Lister, Hist. t. 834. f. 60. 

 Favanne, Conch, t. 65. f. H. 1. 

 Auricula Midee parva, torosa, flavida, Martini, Conch, ii. p. 119, 



126. t. 43. f. 445. 

 Voluta, no. 106, Schrot. Einleit. i. p. 272. 

 Voluta flava, Gmel. Syst. p. 3436. n. s. 



Dillw. Cat. i. p. 506. n. 17. 

 Voluta flammea y, Gmel. Syst. p. 3435 (from Lister's figure). 

 Bulimus monile, Brag, in Encycl. Meth. i. p. 338. n. 70. 

 Melampa monile, Schiveigg. Handb, p. 739. 

 Conovulus monile, Gold/. Handb. p. 657. 

 Conovulus flavus, Anton, Verzeiehn. p. 48. n. 1776. 

 Auricula monile, Fer. Prodr. p. 105. n. 22. 



Lam. Hist. vi. 2. p. 141. n. 14 ; ed. JDesh. viii. p. 333. 



Kilst. Auric, p. 30. t. 4. f. 7-9. 

 Auricula flava, Desh. in Lam. Hist. viii. p. 333. 



Jay, Cat. 1850, p. 264. n. 6150. 



Petit in Journ. Conch, ii. 1851, p. 427. 

 Auricula coniformis, H Orbigny, Moll. Cub. t. 10. f. 1-3. 

 Melampus monile, Lowe in Zool. Journ. v. p. 292. 



Beck, Lnd. p. 108. n. 14. 

 Melampus minutus, C. Beck, Lnd. p. 107. 

 Melampus flavus, C. B. Adams, Contr. to Conch, iii. p. 42 ; ix. p. 1 86. 



H and A. Adams in Proc. Z. S. 1854, p. 9. n. 4 ; Gen. rec. 

 Moll. ii. p. 243. 



Poey, Memor. i. p. 394. 



Pfr. Syn. Auric, n. 8 ; Mon. Auric, p. 21. 

 Melampus torosa, MSrch, Cat. Void. p. 38. n. 779. 

 Melampus monilis, Shuttl. Diagn. n. Moll. n. 7. p. 162. 



0. Larger, uniformly fulvous. — Martini, Conch, ii. t.43. f. 444. 

 Hub. Cuba, Jamaica, Guadaloupe, Portorico. 



11. Melampus Liberianus. 



Shell imperforate, elongately obconic, rather solid, smooth, 

 slightly shining, greenish-fuscous, marked with unequal pale 

 bands ; spire short, conoidal, mucronulate ; whorls six to seven, the 



