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fusiform ; reddish-brown, with rust brown flames longitudinally ; eleven 
whorls : Java. M. coronata ; bellied ; decollated ; a row of pointed 
protuberances near the suture ; three whorls : Bengal. M. semigranosa ; 
longish ; decollated at the point ; four whorls ; two granulated lines near 
the suture ; base smooth, with black lines : Java. 31. crassa ; bellied ; 
decollated ; olive coloured ; glittering ; 2^ whorls ; Bengal. 3i. glans ; 
longish ; smooth ; decollated ; two whorls ; mouth bluish ; Java. 31. 
zonata ; oval ; smooth ; eroded at the point ; yellow brown, with three 
black bands : Bengal. 31. testudinaria ; smooth ; decollated at the 
point ; yellowish vdth black streaks ; four whorls : Java. if. torquata ; 
turreted ; smooth ; yellow brown ; 4^ strong convex whorls : Java, 
if. terehra ; fusiform ; greenish-grey, with points and black longitudinal 
lines : Java. if. orviata ; longish ; smooth ; olive green ; four whorls ; 
adorned superiorly with brown spots : Java. if. granum ; small ; bay ; 
latticed; eroded at the points: Java. Besides these there are figured 
also, if. tuherculata, Miill. {3Ielanoides fasciolata, Oliv.), and 31. 
spinulosa, Lam. 
Lea describes many 3ielanice in the different annual Proceedings of 
the Amer. Phil. Society. Two species, if. catenoides and hoyldniana, 
from Chatahooche Biver, 1. c. 1840, p. 289. In the volume for 1841, 
p. 11, he divides the genus into nine groups, viz,, smooth, plaited, 
keeled, furrowed, striped, knotty, granulated, latticed and spinous. Of 
new species there are described, twenty-five smooth, sixteen plaited, 
five keeled, one furrowed, three striped, three knotty, one granulated, 
and two latticed. To name all these would require too much space, and 
for the same reason we omit the seven additional species described at 
p. 82, and the twelve others shortly described in the volume for 1842, 
p. 242. Lea’s catalogue extends in all to 266 species of the genus 
3Ielania, of which forty-four are fossil. 
3lelania hrevis, D’Orb., thick ; smooth ; brown with black lines ; four 
whorls. 31. cubaniana, id. ; black brown; smooth; oblong. 31. conica ; 
oblong conical ; smooth ; brown green ; last whorl somewhat keeled. 
Benson, Ann. ix. p. 488, forms a new genus, Batillarta, with Ceri- 
ihium zonale. Testa turrita, insculpta, rudi ; anfractibus plurimis ; aper- 
tura oblonga, infra angustiore, basi truncata, evasa ; labro sinuato, supra 
emarginato, infra provecto, labio supra callo munito ; columella planata, 
basi incrassata, oblique truncata, canalem vix efformante ; operculo cor- 
neo, tenui, spirali, multiverticillato. There is only one species, B. zo- 
nalis. 
Menestho, nov. gen., Moller, 1. c., animal pede elongate, angusto ; ore 
simplice, membrana linguali destitute (?) ; tentaculis brevioribus, crassius- 
culis, oculos perparvos ad basin internam ferentibus ; operculo pauco- 
spirato, testa conico-turrita. Turbo albulus, Faun. Groen,, 4"'. Perhaps, 
nearly allied to Liftorina. 
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