1865.] AND FLUVIATILE MOLLUSCA OF PALESTINE. 541 
95. Brrninta (PaLupINA) PHIALENSIS, Conrad. 
Birket-er-Ram (Lake Phiala). 
96. Brrainia RUBENS, Menke. 
Lake Huleh. 
There are several other species of minute Paludinide, which | have 
not been able to determine. 
97. MELANIA TUBERCULATA, Mill. 
Occurs living in various streams, and semifossil in great numbers 
on the marl-deposits by the Dead Sea. By the shores of the Lake 
of Galilee dead and bleached specimens are very common. 
98. MELANIA ROTHIANA, Mouss. 
We obtained several dead specimens of this shell by the Sea of 
Galilee ; but Iam more than doubtful of its specific value, believing 
it to be merely an elongated form of M. tuberculata. 
99. MreLaAnia pyrAMIs, Bursch. 
In the Nahr-el-Kelb. Always a deep brown-black, and differing 
from M. tuberculata in the absence of the longitudinal ridges and 
tubercles on the spire. 
100. MELANIA RUBRO-PUNCTATA, 0. sp. 
T. elongata, fusiformis, tenuis, pellucidior, corneo-albida, punc- 
turis rubris in lineis longitudinalibus dispositis ornata, costulis 
numerosis spiralibus exarata; anfract. 12, sed apice sepe 
eroso; anfract. convexiusculis, summis solis costulis longitudi- 
nalibus (sicut in M. tuberculata) sculptis ; apertura subellip- 
tica, coarctata, effusa ; columella alba. 
Long. 21, diam. 5 mill.; altera 17 long., 33 diam. 
Hab. Buried in the sand, in fountains near the Dead Sea. 
Had I not consulted more experienced naturalists than myself, I 
should have felt disposed to have included this as a delicate and very 
beautiful variety of the variable M. tuberculata.. The distinctive 
characters are the extreme smallness of the aperture and the sudden 
termination of the longitudinal sculpture, which does not extend to 
the lower whorls. 
101. Metanopsis pr#RoSA (L.). 
Very abundant in almost all the streams of Palestine, and found 
subfossil in the old marl-deposits by the shores of the Dead Sea. 
There is a distinct variety peculiar to almost every district. 
Var. A, from the Nahr-el-Kelb, near Beyrout, is horn-colour, with 
three dark brown bands. 
Var. B, from streams near Engedi and other streams flowing into 
the Dead Sea, is much larger than any other specimens I have seen, 
and may be at once recognized by a compression on the right side 
of the peristome, near the columella. It is rarely black, but of a rich 
