228 MELANIIDE. 
fig. 4a [M. erea], gives a good idea of the shape of the form, 
only the columella is not sufficiently bent back. Reeve’s original 
figure, however, seems to me scarcely the same species. Reeve’s 
fig. 58 [M. acutissima] also closely resembles it. 
10. Melania subula. 
Melania subula, Zea, P. Zool. 8. 1850, Panay; Reeve, Icon., fig. 62. 
var. contracta, nov. 
3 Cebu; coll. R. Hungerford, Esq. 
Anfr, 13-14; long. 364, diam. 9 mil. Differ from the above- 
quoted figure in the more contracted whorls, the last one 
especially being less ventricose. Two are of a uniform dark- 
violet colour throughout; the third agrees exactly with the 
original description, and has the paler band next the suture, with 
short flames, &c. 
11. Melania hastula. 
Melania hastula, Lea, P. Zool. §. 1850, Philippines and Conch.-Cab. ITI, 
pl. 16, figs. 3 and 3b; fide Brot = Helix plicaria, Born = Limazx 
scutulatus, Martyn = M. costata, duct. (not of Quoy] = M. flammu- 
lata, Busch [not of Reeve] = M. picta, Rv. [not of Hinds|=M. 
acuta, Rv. [not of Lea] = M. arroensis, Rv. 
M. Brot records as _localities—Philippines, Fiji, Halma- 
heira, and Arrow Isl. Herr Brauer, 8. B. Ak. Wien, LX XVII, 
1878, p. 184, states that Born’s type of Mel. maculatais M. 
flammulata, Busch; and that Born’s Mel. plicaria is M. costata, 
Quoy. 
var. subacutissima, nov. 
3 Katchall; coll, F. A. de Roepstorff, Esq. 
I can find no figure to represent this well-characterized form 
amongst M. Brot’s illustrations of M. hastula; it is nearest fig. 
3, but much smaller, with the apical ribbing more distinct. 
Perhaps his pl. 16, fig. 2a [M. acutissima] best represents it; 
indeed, I have felt tempted to refer it to that species, as it 
resembles remarkably closely the Luzon specimen I have already 
recorded, only it is a more solid shell, with distinct, though not 
prominent, longitudinal ribbing on the apical five whorls, instead 
