114 AUKICULIDiE. 



Alexia Biasolettiana, Pfr. Si/n. Auric, n. 155 ; Mon. Auric, p. 148. 

 Hah. Coasts of Mediterranean Sea, near Nizza, Trieste, Venice, 

 and in Dalmatia. 



5. Alexia myosotis. B.M. 



Shell ovate-turrited, ratlier solid, minutely striated longi- 

 tudinally, slightly shining, fuscous or pale fulvous ; spire elon- 

 gately conic, pointed ; suture impressed, simple ; whorls eight, 

 moderately convex, the last a little longer than the spire, in 

 some specimens varicose, rounded in front ; aperture perpen- 

 dicular, semiovate ; parietal teeth two, the upper knot-shaped, 

 the other forming a horizontally entering plait; columellar 

 plait callous, twisted downwards ; peristome slightly expanded, 

 somewhat thickened; right margin bearing within, above the 

 middle, a more or less distinct tubercle ; columellar margin re- 

 flexed, aduate. Length 10, breadth ±\ mill. 



Auricula myosotis, Drop. Hist. p. 56. pi. 3. f. 16, 17. 



Ferussac, Prodr. p. 103. n. 8. 



Desk, in Encyl. Meth. ii. p. 88. n. 1. 



Lam. Hist. vi. p. 140. n. 9, ed. Desk. viii. p. 330. 



Potiez et Mich. Gal. Douai, i. p. 205. 



Philippi, Moll. Sieil. i. p. 143. 



Kiist. Auric, p. 19. 1. 1. f. 15-17. 



Graells, Cat. Mol. ten: Esp. p. 10. 



Morelet, Moll. Port. p. 76. n. 3. 



Moquin-Tand. in Journ. Conch. 1851, ii. p. 34S. 

 Auricula denticulata, Gould, Massach. p. 199. f. 129. 



He Kay, Moll. New York, p. 58. pi. 5. f. 91, 93 ? 

 Carychium myosotis, Ferussac, Syst. Conch, p. 54. n. 2. 



Mich. Compl. a Drop. p. 73. 



Drouet, En. Moll. France, p. 24. n. 208. 

 Phytia myosotis, Gray in Loud. Med. Repos. xv. p. 231. 

 Auricule pygmee, Blainv. in Diet. Sc. Nat. PI. Malac. 54. f. 6. 

 Pythia myosotis, Beck, Ind. p. 104. n. 2. 

 Alexia myosotis, fllbrch, Cat. Yold, p. 38. n. 785. 



H. and A. Adams in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854, p. 33. n. 4 ; Gen. 

 rec. Moll. ii. p. 241. 



Pfr. Syn. Auric, n. 156 ; Mon. Auric, p. 148. 

 Melampus denticulatus, Slimps. Shells of New England, p. 52 : j 

 Conovulus denticulatus, var., Forbes and Hani, Brit. Moll. iv. 

 p. 195.pl. 125. f. 4,5. 



/3. Much elongated, acuminate, thin, rufous hom-coloured, 

 with pale blood-red oblique bands and the whorls convex. 

 Auricula myosotis, var. adriatica, Kiist. Auric, p. 69. t. 8. f. 23,24. 



