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MELANIA VESTITA. 
Puate VUI.—Fig. 12. 
DEACHIP TION. 
Shell subulate, subturreted; volutions nine; each 
angulated below the middle; suture deeply impress- 
ed; epidermis smooth, polished, horn coloured, with 
a dark band revolving below the angle of each whorl; 
_ whorls near the apex acutely carinated. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Inhabits small streams.in Greene county, Alabama, 
among the grass which grows on the rocks. The 
shellis always coated witha deposite, which obscures 
its characters. 
ANCYLUS FILOSUS. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Shell regularly oval, rather elevated; with nume- 
rous radiating prominent lines; apex very prominent, 
inclined, eroded, not nearly central. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Inhabits the Black Warrior river, south of Blount’s 
Springs, Alabama, It is abundant on various species 
of Melania. 

