222 NEW MELANIDiE OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Remarks. — This is a somewhat inflated species, with four regular brown bands 

 and reminds one of bellula herein described. It is not so solid a species, is usually 

 more inflated, higher in the spire and has not usually any stria), although some 

 specimens have a few. Neither of the specimens before me have a perfect apex, 

 therefore the number of whorls is uncertain. The aperture is not quite half the 

 length of the shell. 



GONIOBASIS FUMEA. PI. 34, fig. 6. 



Testa lsevi, conica, subtenui, furnea. subnitida. aliquando obsolete vittata ; spira subelevata ; suturis 



irregulariter impressis; anfractibus superne planulatis, inferne subiuflatis ; apertura ovato-rboni- 



bica, intus albida; labro acuto ; collumella inflects, superne paulisper incrassata, ad basim 



subrotunda. 



Shell smooth, conical, rather thin, sooty brown, sometimes obscurely banded; 



spire somewhat raised ; sutures irregularly impressed ; whorls flattened above, 



somewhat inflated below ; aperture ovately rhombic, whitish within ; outer lip 



acute ; columella inflected, slightly thickened above, rounded at the base. 



Melania fwmea, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1861, p. 123. 



j2a& — Yellowleaf Creek, Shelby County, Alabama, E. R. Showalter, M. D. 



My cabinet and cabinet of Dr. Showalter. 

 Diam. "36, Length -80 inch. 



BemarJcs. — This is an obscure species and is near to crejpera herein described, but 

 it is more inflated, and reminds one of hullula also herein described. But it has not 

 the well marked bands of that species, some individuals being without any bands, 

 while others have a few very obscure ones. In some there are very obscure stria? 

 towards the base of the lower whorl. All the specimens before me being worn 

 at the tips, I cannot make out the character of the apicial whorls. The aperture 

 is about one-third the length of the shell. 



Goniobasis pudica. PI. 34, fig. 7. 



Testa lsevi, conoidea, crassiuscula, olivacea, vel rufuscula ; spira conica ; suturis irregulariter im- 

 pressis; anfractibus senis, convexiusculis ; apertura parviuseula, ovata, intus casrulco-alba; labro 

 acuto; columella inflecta, superne incrassata, ad basim rotundata. 



■ Shell smooth, conical, somewhat thick, olive or reddish ; spire conical ; sutures 

 irregularly impressed ; whorls six, slightly convex ; aperture rather small, ovate, 

 bluish white within ; outer lip acute ; columella inflected, thickened above, rounded 



at the base. 



Melanin pudica, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1861, p. 120. 

 ffab. — Yellowleaf Creek, Alabama, E. R. Showalter, M. D. 

 My cabinet and cabinet of Dr. Showalter. 

 Diam. -34. . Length -80 inch. 



