344 NEW MELANIDiE OF THE UNITED STATES. 



banded within; outer lip slightly crenulate, scarcely sinuous; columella bent in and 

 twisted. 



Operculum ovate, rather thin, dark brown, with the polar point near to the left 

 margin above the base. 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1862, p. 272. 



Hab. — Etowah Eiver, near Canton Georgia, Bishop Elliott and Rev. G. White. 



My cabinet and cabinets of Bishop Elliott, Mr. White, and Dr. Hartman. 

 Diam. -36, Length -70 inch. 



Remarks. — A number of specimens were sent to me by Bishop Elliott and the 

 Rev. Mr. White; some are much more granulate than others, which are transversely 

 striate with rugose granulations. When perfectly granulate there are three or four 

 rows of beautiful small nodes surrounding the whorls. There are usually seven 

 bands well marked inside, but obscure on the exterior. A single specimen is entirely 

 brownish purple inside. It is rarely -without color ; usually there is a small yellowish 

 spot at the base of the columella outside. Those sent by Mr. White are all olive- 

 green and without an iron deposit. Those from Bishop Elliott were all covered with the 

 black oxide of iron, which on being removed exhibit a rubiginose color, and do not 

 show much color in the bands. In outline it is near to Melania (Gonwbasis) bellula 

 (nobis), but is more inflated and is striate and granose. The aperture is about one- 

 half the length of the shell. 



Goniobasis Stewardsoniana. PI .38, fig. 210. 



Test-3, granulate, transverse striata, subfusiformi, crassil, fulgida, inflata, viridi vel fusca, evittata ; spira per- 

 obttisa ; suturis impressis; anfractibus convexiusculis ; apertura pergrandi, ovato-rliomboidea, intus 

 alba ; labro acuto, subsinuoso ; columella, incurva, superne et inferne incrassata et contorta. 



Shell granulate, transversely striate, subfusiform, thick, shining, inflated, green or 

 brown, without bands ; spire very obtuse ; sutures impressed ; whorls slightly convex ; 

 aperture very large, ovately rhomboidal, white within; outer lip sharp, slightly 

 sinuous ; columella bent in, thickened above and below and twisted. 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1862, p. 272. 



Hab.— Knoxville, Kentucky, B. W. Budd, M. D. 



My cabinet. 

 Diam. -42, Length "70 inch. 



BemarJcs. — Two specimens, one perfect, the other with little more than the body 

 whorl, were given to me long since by Dr. Budd, to whom I am indebted for many 

 fresh water mollusca of our Western and South-western States, one of which, properly 

 belonging to this genus, I called Melania Buddii. Of the two specimens before me the 

 younger is almost entirely perfect, and presents a fine, smooth, dark-green epidermis 

 with transverse strice, which on the upper part of the whorls are broken up into 



