MANUAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



Genus ANOMA Albers, 1850. 



Anoma ALB., Die Heliceen, p. 209, 1850, for acus Ffr. r 

 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 y 

 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, 



