Melanof- 



ioma. 



C4.8 - ' WO RMS. TESTACEA. Sa. Nerita. ,£_<^ 



Vittata* Shell fubglobular, brown with a double white fillet in th 

 ^X!m^^4w^ middle, reticulate and denticulate each fide. 

 ^XCe*J^-^ jf^^T '^J^lnhabits Africa* Chemn. conch, C, ra£. 1 88, /%. 191 7, 1918. 



Shell thin pellucid fmooth oblong, the firft whorl ventneofe 

 ' flat and very large, the others corxiprefled : umbilicus 



rjalf clofed. 

 Lister tab. 142. 566.^. 16. G»a/f. /^, /«£. 67. D. 

 $<£« 71%: C^/ ViniL tefi. t. I.'j.-jf. 13, 1 4.' 

 Cbernn, tonch. 5. ?. 189./; 1926, 1927. 



2. Lifter t. 565./-. 13. iffffcrr «r j gw 4-. /. 6,/". 3, 4= 

 Revenf. conch, i. /*£. 5. % 54. 

 Chemn. conch, ^.t. 189./. 1934, T935. 



3. Chemn. conch. $\ tab. 189.% 1936 — 1938* 



4. Lister conch, tab. 559. /%* 2. 

 Chemn. conch. $.t. 190. /'. 1940, 194*- 



5; Rumpf. Muf. tab. 2 2. E, ■ 



Inhabits the Indian fca: 2 inches long. 



$£*// white orange or brown with brownilh chefnut white or grey 

 bands fillets and veins and angular brown lines: region of the 

 umbilicus and pillar black or dufky, fome'times edged with 

 orange. 



* Pallidula Shell femitranfparcnt horn-colour, the whorls rather pro- 

 minent: aperture femilunar and very patulous: umi 

 bilicus large! 



. 



Donovans Britijli Jhelh.l. tab, 16. fig. I. 

 t>a Costa Brit. ijneb; p. 5 1 . ». 29. \ 

 Inhabits the coafts of %ent 1$ Dor/eh fmall. 



Papilla, Shell pellucid thin oblong with decuflate ftris, dirty yellow: 

 p>' •/£*•? />*-^A^^apei-:ture fuboval : pillar white: umbilicus half doled. 



? t *~- / £~^ 1S9 A- '939- 



^_^x ^U^4 Mi~& Inhabits ihores of Tranquebar '. ™ h %l*A-ft J ***^«~*9 ^T 



^^^■ c fX^- '&Sirdcl>r1i^^ undulate and longitu- 



, dinaily ribbed, the ribs flat oblique and iemilunan 



f'pire papillary. 

 Foflile in Campania. Schrczt. Einl. in conch. 2, lab, 4. fig. 1 5' 



Vahata. Shell flattifh, with a circinate aperture. 

 : Mull, Zool.- Dan. prodr.- 2891. 



Inhabits the North juts : probably not of this Genus, ' 

 Inhabitant with. 2 j'ctateous tentacula, bearing the eye* at the 

 poiierior angle. 



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