MELANimE. '219 



Genus CLAVIGER, Haldeman. 



Silliman's Journal, 1842, type Nerita aurita, M&ller ;=Vibex, Gray, 

 P. ZooL 8. 1847, type " Nerita aurita," not Vilex, Gray, 1840, or 

 OJcen, ZooL 1817 [fide Brof]. 



l. Claviger auritus. 



Nerita aurita, Miiller, Hist. Term., 1774, Hob. ? ; fide Brot, = Strombus 

 tympanorum, Chemnitz, =Io rota, Reeve, var. = Mel. subaurita, Brot = 

 Mel. soriculata, Morelet. 



1 Senegal j ex c. A. Morelet, Esq. 

 Agrees with M. Brot's pi. 36, fig. 7A. 



var. subrota. 



1 W. Africa ; ex c. Asiatic Soc. Bengal. 



Long. 34^-, diam. 17 mil. A remarkable form, intermediate 

 between M. Brot's pi. 36, fig. 7B, and pi. 37, fig. 2. Spire 

 very short ; nodules fewer than usual, more distant and more 

 oblique, somewhat larger ; white, with three brown bands on the 

 last whorl. 



Genus LARTETIA, Bourguignat. 



Moll. Quartern. Paris, 1869, type L. lelgarandi, Bourg. ; L. lourguignati, 

 Pal. [only living sp^from Peronne [Dep. Heraulf] ; fide Cles., Nachtr., 

 1878, p. 126, closely allied to Baicalia ; fide Sdb., Conch. Vorwelt, 

 p t 690 =Gonioc?iilus, Sdb. 1870, type Pleuroceras costulatum, Fuchs, 

 fossil of the Lower Pleiocene from Radmanest =Micromelania, Bru- 

 sina, 1874. 



This and the following form are not in the Museum. 



Genus ONCOMELANIA, Gredler. 

 Jahrb. 1881, p. 120, type 0. hupensis, Gredl. [Prov. Hunan], 



Genus TIPHOBIA, E. A. Smith. 

 P. ZooL S. 1880, type T, Horei, Smith [Lake Tanganyika]* 



