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36. Melampus fasciatus, Deshayes. 



Hab. Rua Sura Island, off the north coast of Guadalcanar, found 

 in crevices of a log on the shore (Guppy) ; Ysabel Island {Brenchley 

 in Brit. Mus.). 



This species apparently differs as much in size as colour, and is 

 very widely distributed, there being in the British Museum specimens 

 from the Keehng Islands, Louisiade Archipelago, New Hebrides, and 

 Fiji. The largest specimens are generally whitish with transverse 

 brownish bands, and the smallest are frequently of an almost uniform 

 black-brown, or light olive-brown or dirty yellow, with only the 

 faintest indications of transverse zones. 



37. Melania amarula, Linne. 



Hab. From a stream in Ugi Island. 



The two specimens from this locality differ in form and the 

 number of spines upon the angle of the whorls. One has a much 

 longer body-whorl, and has seventeen spines, the other only eleven. 

 The columella is orange, and the epidermis towards the lip villose, as 

 in the variety called M. cybele, Gould. 



38. Melania scabra, Miiller. 



Hab. Ugi Island. 



I see no sufficient reasons for separating the few specimens 

 obtained by Mr. Guppy from this variable and widely distributed 

 species, with which several forms held distinct by Brot in his 

 Monograph should, I think, be united. I have compared them 

 with Indian examples, with which they agree very closely. 



39. Melania salamonis, Brot. 



Hab. Ugi Island. 



The single specimen from this locality differs in colour from the 

 type figured by Brot, being uniformly olive, except the upper 

 spirally striated whorls, whicli, beiug more or less destitute of the 

 epidermis, are paler, and exhibit a series of small red spots or short 

 flames below the suture. 



40. Melania fulgurans, Hinds. 



Hab. Ugi Island. 



This species has not, I think, been recorded from the Solomon 

 Islands, although it has probably been known for some time to in- 

 habit that group, for Mr. Brazier of Sydney presented, in 1879, four 

 specimens from that locality to the British Museum. These and 

 several obtained by Mr. Guppy show that the species is rather 

 variable in painting. None have the zigzag lines of the typical 

 form, but are chiefly ornamented with spiral series of reddish dots 

 or short lines, sometimes falling into longitudinal rows, and the 

 whorls below the suture are often blotched with a darker colour. 

 Mr. Guppy' s largest specimen (7 whorls remaining) is 40 millim. 

 long. 



