24 auric ULica:. 



* 

 verse, the other approximate, tooth-shaped; colinnellar plait 

 acute, continued arcuately into the basal margin; peristome 

 simple ; right margin somewhat sinuated above, then almost 

 rectilinear, furnished within with a deeply situated row of short, 

 close-set small ridges ; columellar margin callous, white, rather 

 appressed. Length 12, greatest breadth 7 mill. 



Melampus Redfieldi, Pfr. in Malak. PI. 1854, p. 112 ; Syn. Au- 

 ric, n. 24 ; Mon. Auric, p. 33. 



H. and A. Adams, Gen. rec. Moll. ii. p. 243. 



Hab. Isle of Bermuda (Redjield). 



28. Melampus hepaticus. 



Shell oblong-ovate, smooth, brownish-rufous, pale; spire 

 pointed, conic, occupying nearly one-third of the total length ; 

 last whorl not angulated above; aperture linear, broader at 

 base ; labrum acute, thickened within with a longitudinal callus 

 bearing five to six small teeth ; columella furnished with two 

 small teeth at its base, and with a third obsolete. Length 5f, 

 breadth 3| lines (Phil.). 



Auricula hepatica, Philippi in Zeitschr. f Maldk. 1851, p. 54. 

 Melampus hepaticus, Pfr. Syn. Auric, n. 25 ; Mon. Auric, p. 34. 



Hab. Liew Kiew (Cecille). 



" Shape like A. nitens, Lam., aperture almost exactly like 

 that of A. castanea, Mtf., but the middle tooth at the- base of 

 the columella is indistinct." 



29. Melampits Umxaasianus. B.M. 



Shell imperforate, conoidally ovate, rather solid, smooth, 

 shining, yellow, marked with five brown bands, several of which 

 are sometimes confluent ; spire concavely conoidal, mucronate ; 

 suture slightly impressed ; whorls eight to nine, the upper ones 

 rather flat, the last forming about three-fourths of the total 

 length, more convex above, then angulated obsoletely, much 

 attenuated towards the base ; aperture nearly perpendicular, 

 narrow, scarcely broader in front ; parietal plaits two, placed 

 deeply ; columella twisted, furnished with a stronger plait, 

 which is produced to the left margin ; peristome simple, sharp ; 

 right margin bearing within a white longitudinal callus, which 

 sends off six to eight transverse ridges; columellar margin 

 rather dilated, adnate. Length 11, greatest breadth 6^ mill. 



Auricula Umlaasiana, Krauss in Kiist. Auric, p. 43. t. 6. f. 16-20. 

 Krauss, Siidafr. Moll. p. 82. 



