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Melampus, L. Pfr. in Z. f. 31. 1853, 9 ; Malac. Bl. 1854, 146 ; et 

 Mon. p. 13. 



H. and A. Adams, Gen. rec. Moll. ii. 244. 

 Conovulus, Lamarck, 1812, Extr. cPun Cours. 



Gold/. Handb. d, Zool. 657. 



Latreille, Fam. Nat. 



Blaim: Malac. 452. 



Cuvier, Regne An. ed. 2, et ed. Voigt, iii. 111. 



Beck, Ind, 106. 



Anton, Verzeichn. 48. 



Morris, Brit. Foss. 142. 



Guerin, Iconogr. Moll. 17. 



Recluz in Proc. Z. S. 1845, 122. 

 Melainpa, Schiveigger, Naturgesch. 739. 

 Conovula, Ferussac, Prodr. 104. 



Bang, Manuel, 173. 

 Auricula (part.), Lam. Hist. An. s. Vert. vi. 2. fyc. 

 Conovuluni, G. B. Sowerby, Conch. Mon. ed. 2. 119. 

 Ophicardelus, Beck, Ind. 108. 



H. and A. Adams, Gen. rec. Moll. ii. 245. 

 Tralia, Gray in Tart. Mon. 21, and Syn. Br. Mas. 1842, 91. 



H. and A. Adams, Gen. rec. Moll. ii. 244. 

 Laimodonta, Nuttall. 



II. and A. Adams, Gen. rec. Moll. ii. 246. 

 Pira, Tifata, Signia, and Persa, H. and A. Adams (subgenera). 

 Bullae, sp., Linn. Syst. ed. 10. 

 Volutse, sp., Linn. Syst. ed. 12. 

 Bulimi, sp., Bruguvtre in Fnc. Meth. ii. 



One species of this genus, as well as two genuine Auriculie, 

 were at first ascribed by Linnaeus to the genus Bulla, and then 

 to the genus Voluta. Bruguiere transferred all those of Lin- 

 naeus' Volutes, which have no channeled aperture, into his mon- 

 strous genus Bulimus, out of which various authors at different 

 times have founded new genera. D. de Montfort was the first 

 who founded a good genus under the name of 3Ielampus, upon 

 Bui. coniformis, Brug., and this was adopted under the same 

 name, but with different extent of application, by the above- 

 quoted authors. Lamarck also had (1812), under the name 

 " Conomuus," separated the Auriadce having the right margin 

 straight and acute, which he believed to be fluviatile, from the 

 genuine ones, but (1822 ) reunited them with the genus Auricula. 

 Since that time most authors confounded the species of Melampus 

 with Auricula, until Beck restored the genus Melampus, but in a 

 wider sense, dividing it into the subgenera Conor ulus, Melampus, 

 and Lirator. .Several species were united with Auricida mi/<>- 

 sotis, Drap., into the 'genus Pythia (neither of Bolten nor Gray), 



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