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Pedipes cpiadridens, Pfeiffer. 
,, globulosus, C. B. Adams. 
A small globose-conic solid brownish-fulvous shell, stria- 
ted by fine spiral ridges and having an aperture furnished 
with four plaits or teeth. 
Length 5 mill., breadth 4 mill. 
It is found on the shore near high-water mart under 
stones in sheltered places ; within the Gulf of Paria, and 
probably, also on the other coasts. It is somewhat widely 
distributed in the West Indies. 
Melamptjs Montfort 1810 . 
Amphibious Inoperculata with solid ovate-obconoidal 
shells, having a short spire, a narrow elongate aperture, a 
plaited columella and a straight*peristome. 
Melampus coffea Linne. 
Bulla coffea, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, p. 729. 
Voluta coffea, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, p. 1187. 
„ minuta, Gmel. 
Ellobium barbadense, Bolten. 
Bulimus coniformis, Bruy. 
Melampus coniformis, Montfort. 
Auricula ovula, D’ Orb. Moll, de Cuba , pi. 1 3, f. 4, 7. 
Conovulus coniformis, Lam. 
j> j, Woodward , Man. Moll. pi. 12, f.37. 
An obconic solid three-banded shell with parietal and 
columellar plaits and having an acute peristome furnished 
internally with many (1 4-1 8) entering ridges. Length (of 
a large example) 25, breadth 12 mill. 
Pound abundantly on the stems and roots of trees within 
reach of the spray of the sea on the Eastern and other 
coasts. It is also found in most of the West Indian Islands. 
