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Melampus (Tralia) granifer, H. and A. Adams inProc. Zool. Soc. 



1854, p. 12. n. 30. 

 Melampus granifer, Pfr. Sgn. Auric, n. 36 ; Mon. Auric, p. 42. 

 Tralia (Signia) granifera, H. and A. Adams, Gen. rec. Moll, ii.245. 



Hab. Bay of Pampang, Java {Zollinger) ; Isle of Bureas, Phi- 

 lippines (H. Cuming). 



41. Melampus cristatus. 



Shell imperforate, oblong-ovate, solid, cro-wdedly striated 

 spirally, silky-shining, yellowish-fulvous ; spire short, convex, 

 mucronate ; suture channeled ; whorls eight, moderately convex, 

 the penultimate one broader, the last forming two-thirds of the 

 total length, ventricose above the middle, attenuated in front ; 

 aperture scarcely oblique, very narrow, divided into two sinuses 

 at base ; parietal plaits three, the upper one nodiform, the other 

 two rather transverse, continued externally into a callous spiral 

 crest ; columellar plait strong, nearly vertical ; peristome sharp ; 

 right margin furnished within with a thick white callus, bear- 

 ing crowded transverse ridges; columellar margin somewhat 

 dilated, appressed. Length '9^, breadth 6 mill. 



Melampus cristatus, Pfr. in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854, p. 122 ; Sgn. 



Auric, n. 37 ; NoviL Conch, i. p. 17. n.27. t. 5. f.3-5; Mon. 



Auric, p. 43. 



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

 Hab. Philippine Islands. 



§ 5. Labrum furnished with more or less distant parallel transverse 

 ribs ; body of the penultimate whorl bearing more than three 

 plaits. 



42. Melampus trieasciatus. 



Shell sublimate, obconically ovate, solid, smooth, shining, 

 dark reddish-brown, with three narrow pale bands ; spire short, 

 convexly conoidal, rather pointed ; suture linear ; whorls nine, 

 rather flat, the upper ones marked regularly with minute im- 

 pressed striae ; the last forming about three-fourths of the total 

 length, attenuated and somewhat ventricose at base ; aperture 

 nearly perpendicular, narrow, dilated in front ; parietal plaits 

 five, the two upper and the fifth dentiform, the third and fourth 

 lamelliform ; columellar plait middle-sized, produced outwards ; 

 peristome sharp; right margin rather rectilinear, furnished 

 within with a strong white callus, bearing about five teeth ; 

 columellar margin callous, brown, a little spreading. Length 

 14, greatest breadth 9 mill. 



Auricula trifasciata, Kilst. Auric, p. 38. t. 5. f. 15-17. 



