AURICULIDiE. 25 



Melampus Umlaasianus, H. and A. Adams in Proc. Z. S. 1854, 

 p. 9. n. 2 ; Gen. rec. Moll. ii. p. 243. 



Pfr. Syn. Auric, n. 26 ; Mon. Auric, p. 34. 

 Hab. Mouth of the river Unilaas, Natal. 



30. Melampus pulchellus. 



Shell imperforate, ovate fusiform, rather solid, almost smooth, 

 yellowish, elegantly painted with blackish-brown bands and 

 waving streaks ; spire convexly conoidal, with the apex mucro- 

 nate ; suture linear ; whorls six to seven, rather fiat, marked 

 with close-set impressed points below the suture, the last form- 

 ing about two-thirds of the total length, indistinctly angled above 

 the middle, attenuated at base ; aperture vertical, narrow ; pari- 

 etal plaits two, approximate, nodiform ; columella! plait strong, 

 oblique, reaching to the base; peristome thin; right margin 

 sharp, bearing within a whitish callus, which sends off seven 

 to eight transverse ridges; columellar margin short, adnate. 

 Length 8, breadth 5 mill. 



Auricula pulchella, Petit in Proc. Z. S. 1842, p. 202. 

 Melampus (Tralia) pulchellus, H. and A. Adams in Proc. Z. S. 



1854, p. 11. n. 29. 

 Tralia, (Tifata) pulchella, H. and A. Adams, Gen. rec. Moll. ii. p.245. 

 Melampus pulchellus, Pfr. Syn. Auric, n. 27 ; Mon. Auric, p. 35. 

 Hab. S. Nicolas, Isle of Zebu, Philippines. 



31. Melampus Flohxdanus. 



Shell imperforate, ventricosely fusiform, thin, rather smooth, 

 greyish-fulvous, with various chestnut-coloured bands ; spire 

 regularly conic, pointed; suture linear; whorls ten, flat, the 

 upper ones striated radiatingly, the last forming three-fifths of 

 the total length, obsoletely angled above, much attenuated to- 

 wards the base ; aperture nearly perpendicular, narrow, angu- 

 lated at both extremities ; parietal plaits two, small, approxi- 

 mate ; columellar plait strong, obliquely produced to the base ; 

 peristome sharp, right margin furnished within with several 

 rather equal white transverse ridges ; columellar margin short, 

 callous. Length 1\, breadth 4§- mill. 



Auricula Floridana, Shuttletvorth, MSS. 



Auricula Rugeli, Cliarpentier, MSS. 



Melampus (Tralia) Floridianus, H. and A. Adams in Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1854, p. 11. n. 21. 

 Tralia (Tifata) Floridana, //. and A. Adams, Gen. rec. Moll, ii 



p.245. 

 Melampus Floridanus, Pfr. Syn. Auric, n. 28 ; Mon. Auric, p. 35. 

 Hub. Florida. 



