20 auriculid^:. 



attenuated towards the base, which is somewhat compressed; 

 aperture scarcely oblique, elongately semiovate, brown within ; 

 parietal plaits two, the upper one transverse, the other smaller ; 

 columellar plait twisted towards the outer margin ; peristome 

 acute, with a broad smooth border ; right margin furnished with- 

 in with fourteen to sixteen white entering ridges; columellar 

 margin callous, reflexed, diffused towards the upper part, brown- 

 ish-violaceous. 



Bulla coffea, Linn. Syst. ed. 10. p. 729. n. 348. 

 Voluta coffea, Linn. Syst. ed. 12. p. 1187. n. 397. 



Schrot. Einl. i. p. 200. n. vi. 



Gmel. Syst. p. 3438. n. 15. 



Dillw. Cat. l. p. 505. n. 15. 



Martini, Conch, ii. p. 119. t. 43. f. 445 ? 

 Voluta minuta, Gmel. p. 343G. n. 6 (part.). 



Dillw. Descr. Cat. i. p. 506. n. 16. 

 Ellobium Barbadense, Bolt. Mus. p. 106. n. 1353 ; new ed. p. 74. 



n. 1326 ? 

 Bulimus coniformis, Brug. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 339. n. 72. 

 Melampus coniformis, Montf. Conch. Syst. ii. p. 318. 



Lowe in Zool. Journ. v. p. 292. 



C. B. Adams, Contrib. to Conch, no. 3. p. 42, no. 9. p. 186. 



Shuttl. Diayn. n. 7. p. 161. 

 Melampus fusca, March, Cat. Yolcl. p. 38. n. 778 ? and 

 Melampus coffea, Mbrch, Yold. p. 38. n. 780. 



Pfr. Syn. Auric, n. 17 ; Mon. Auric, p. 28. 

 Melampus coffeus, H. and A. Adams in Proc. Z. S. 1854, p. 9. 

 n. 1 ; Gen. rec. Moll. ii. 243. pi. 32. f. 7, 7a. 



Poey, Memor. i. p. 394. 

 Tornatelle conifonne, Blainv. in Diet. Sc. Nat. PI. Malac. 54. f. 4. 

 Auricula coniformis, Fer. Prodr. p. 105. n. 23. 



Lam. Hist. vi. 2. p. 141. n. 12 ; ed. Desk. viii. p. 332. 



Pot. et 3Iich. Gal. Douai, i. p. 202. 



Peeve, Conch. Syst. ii. t. 187. f. 7. 



Sow. Conch. Man. p. 77. f. 298 ? 



Kust. Auric, p. 31. t. 4. f. 14-17. 



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

 Auricula ovula, D'Orb. Moll. Cub. pi. 13. f. 4-7. 

 Conovulus coniformis, Lam. in Encycl. Meth. t. 459. f. 2. 



Anton, Verz. p. 48. n. 1775. 



Woodio. Man. Moll. t. 12. f. 37. 

 Conovulus coffeus, Beck, Ind. p. 106. n. 2. 

 Conovulus coffea, Gray in Turt. Man. new ed. p. 20. 



/3. Shell subfusiform, with the spire rather elongate, forming 

 one-third of the total length. 



