MANUAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



Genus ANOMA Albers, 1850. 



Anoma ALB., Die Heliceen, p. 209, 1850, for acus Pfr., 

 gossei Pfr., tricolor Pfr. (the last selected as type by von 

 Martens, Die Hel., 2d edit., 1860, p. 269). PILS. & VAN., 

 Proc. A. N. S., Phila., 1898, p. 279. Not Anomus Fairm. 

 Hemiptera, 1846. 



Leia ALBERS, Die Hel., 1850, p. 207 ; sole species L. maugeri 

 Wood. Not Leia Meigen in Diptera, 1818, nor Meg., Coleop- 

 tera, 1821. Lia MORCH, Catal. Yoldi, 1852, p. 35 ; sole species 

 L. maugeri. FISCHER & CROSSE, Journ. de Conchyl., 1870, 

 p. 20, pi. 3, f. 1-5 (dentition). Not Lia Esch., in Coleoptera, 

 1829. 



Inliaculus SCHAUFUSS, in Paetel's Moll. Syst. et Catal., 

 1869, p. 15. 



Vendrysia SIMPSON, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvii, 1894, p. 

 430 ; proposed as a substitute for Leia. 



Shell rimate, fusiform or oblong-conic, usually truncate; 

 glossy, white, yellow or brown, smooth or striate, the last 

 whorl with a basal carina. Aperture rounded or subangular 

 below, truncate above, the well-expanded or reflexed peris- 

 tome discontinuous above. Columella sloping or truncate. 

 Axis slender throughout or thick in the last two whorls; 

 straight or sinuous below. Apex unknown. 



Jaw thin, highly arched, composed of many narrow laminae, 

 as in Urocoptis. Radula composed of very numerous teeth, 

 in V-shaped rows. Central tooth very narrow, its cusp much 

 smaller than the ectocones of the lateral teeth. Laterals with 

 two cusps nearly terminal on the narrow basal-plates; both 

 cusps broad, squarely truncate, with serrate cutting edges y 



