272 MELANinxas. 



71. Melania [Melanella] zonata. 



Melania zonata, Benson, J. Asiat. 800. Bengal, 1836, Sylhet ; fide Brot ?=* 

 M. retusa, Or ay, in Griffith's Cuvier [not of Raffin]. 



7 Sylhet [typical] ; ex c. Asiatic Soc. Bengal. 



Probably better classed in the next subgenus ; I retain, how- 

 ever, M. Brot's classification for the present. 



Sub-Genus PARAMELANIA, Smith. 

 P. Zool. S. 1881, type M. nassa, Woodward. 



Mr. C. A. White (in Nature ', 1881, Vol. XXV, p. 101) 

 considers the group identical with that of Pyrgulifera Jmmerosa 

 of Meek (U. S. Geol. Survey, Vol. IV, by Clarence King), a 

 Mesozoic fossil. 



72. Melania [Paramelania] nassa. 



Melania nassa, Woodward, Ann. and Mag. 



1 Lake Tanganyika, Central Africa; ex Mr. Damon. 



Sub-Genus TAREBIA, H. & A. Adams. 



Gen. Moll. I, p. 304, as subgenus of Vibex, OTcen ! Sect. = Sermi/la, H. 

 and A. Adams, 1. c., as siibgenus of Melanella, Sw. ; type fide Urot, 

 Conch. Cab., 2874, Mel. graniiera. 



73. Melania [Tarebia] lateritia. 



Melania lateritia, Lea, P. Zool. S. 1850, Philippines. 



6 Mauban, Luzon ; coll. R. Hungerford, Esq. [19J, 10i]. 



A dark-coloured, short-spired, much-eroded form, without 

 bands. 



6 Mindanao; coll. Prof. C. Semper. 



Resembling the preceding, but c 

 eroded. 



7 Philippines ; coll. Baron F. von Kiehthof en. 



Resembling the preceding, but of a yellowish-brown colour and 

 not eroded. 



