30 AURICULITj^:. 



Melampus lividus, Beck, Ind. p. 106. n. 3. 



H. and A. Adams in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854, p. 10. n. 12 ; 



Gen. rec. Moll. ii. p. 243. 

 Pfr. Syn. Auric, n. 35 ; Mon. Auric, p. 40. 



/3. Shell more elongated and slender. Length 16, greatest 

 breadth 9 mill. 



Hub. Natal, South Africa (Krauss), and Isle of Mauritius. 



39. Melampus Sincaporensis. 



Shell imperforate, ovate, somewhat fusiform, rather solid, 

 minutely striated longitudinally, and marked with rather distant 

 spiral punctured striae, rather shining, brown, sometimes with 

 pale bands ; spire convexly conoidal, rather acuminate ; suture 

 linear, nearly regular ; whorls seven, rather flat, the last forming- 

 a little more than two-thirds of the total length, turgid above, 

 attenuated and with spiral striae more crowded at base ; aper- 

 ture nearly perpendicrdar, extremely narrow, not dilated in front ; 

 parietal plaits three, the two upper minute, the third strong, 

 transverse, white ; columellar plait strong, oblique, compressed, 

 continued areuately into the basal margin ; peristome thin, 

 sharp ; right margin bearing three deeply placed transverse plaits, 

 with minute teeth between them. Length 12A, breadth 1\ mill. 



Melampus Sincaporensis, Pfr. in Malah. Bl. 1855, p. 8. 

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

 Pfr. Novit. Conch, i. n. 81. p. 46. t. 12. f. 15, 16 ; Mon. Au- 

 ric, p. 41. 



Hob. Sincapore (J. S. Bacon). 



40. Melampus graniper. 



Shell subrimate, acom-shaped, rather solid, not shining, fus- 

 cous, granulated with close-set spiral furrows and longitudinal 

 striae ; spire convexly conoidal, slightly mucronate ; suture irre- 

 gular, somewhat canaliculate ; whorls seven, flat, the last form- 

 ing about three-fourths of the total leng-th, moderately angulated 

 and marked with a pale band above the middle, attenuated in 

 front ; aperture nearly perpendicular, narrow, oblong ; parietal 

 plaits three, the upper one punctiform, the other transverse ; 

 columellar plait obliquely descending to the base ; peristome 

 thin, sharp ; right margin furnished within on the upper half 

 with three to four transverse ridges ; columellar margin callous, 

 appressed. Length HH, breadth 6 mill. 



Auricula granifera, Moms. Jar. Moll p. 46. t. 5. f. 9, t. 20. f. 7. 

 Auricula granosa, Hombr. et Jacq. Voy. Pole Slid, Zool. v. p. 38. 

 pi. 9. f. 20-22. 



