

AURICULID^; 101 



Auricula Chinensis, Pfr. in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854, p. 152; Si/n. 



Auric, n. 133 ; Novit. Conch, i. p. 18. n. 30. t. 6. f. 1, 2; Mm. 



Auric, p. 132. 

 Ellobiuni Chinense, H. and A. Adams. Gen. rec. Moll ii. p. 237. 

 Hob. China. 



12. Auricula stagnalis. B.M. 

 Shell imperforate, rather fusiformly oblong, solid, striated 



longitudinally, and sculptured transversely -with minute pa- 

 pillte, covered with a yellowish periostraca ; spire convexly 

 conic, rather blunt, eroded; suture slight, irregular; whorls 

 six, moderately convex, the last forming about four-sevenths of 

 the total length, attenuated at base ; aperture nearly perpen- 

 dicular, narrowed by three equidistant plaits, broader* in front ; 

 parietal plaits two, the upper nodiform, the other middle-sized, 

 ascending obliquely ; columellar plait twisted, rather prominent; 

 peristome sharp, with the margins united by a thin deposit ; 

 right margin scarcely arcbed, "thickened within by a white 

 callus ; columellar margin dilated, flat, reflexed. Length 25, 

 breadth 10 mill. 



Auricula stagnalis, UOrbiqny, Synops. p. 23. n. 3. in Gutr.Mag. 



1835, et Voxj. Am. p. 325. pi. 42. f. 7, 8. 

 Reeve, Conch. Syst. ii. pi. 187. f. 9. 

 Reck, Ind. p. 103. n. 7. 

 Kiister, Auric, p. 70. 



C. B. Adams in Ann. Lye. N. York, v. p. 434. 

 Pfr. Syn. Auric, n. 134 ; Mon. Auric, p. 133. 

 Auricula granulina, Muhlf. MSS. 



Anton, Verz. p. 48. n. 1769. (Compare Anton in Zeitsehr. 

 f. Malak. 1847, p. 170.) 

 Auricula papillifera, Rust. Auric, p. 25. t. 3. f. 9, 10. 

 Ellobium granulinuni, H. and A. Adams in Proc. Zool Soc. 1854. 



p. 7. 

 Ellobium stagnale, H. and A. Adams, Gen. rec. Moll. ii. p. 236. 



/3. Rather more ventricose, upper parietal plait rather in- 

 distinct. 



Auricula helvacea, Philippi, MSS. 



Ellobium helvaceum, H. and A.Adams in Proc. Z. S. 1854, p. 8. 



Hab. Columbia, Panama ; var. ft. Malacca ? 



13. Atjricitla auricella. 



Shell solid, cylindrical, smooth, white ; apex acute ; aperture 

 rather ovate; columella smooth. Length 8, breadth 3 lines 

 ( Quay). 



