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Banana, in the brackish area, under heaps of débris, chiefly leaves 
and sticks, washed out upon the marsh grass at the high tide line (H. 
Lang and (J. Bequaert Coll.). 
The color is usually bister or sepia, nearly uniform or varied with 
whitish lines and some whitish or deep olive-buff streaks. Occasionally 
there is a pale band at the shoulder, and sometimes four pale bands. A 
few examples are uniform deep olive-buff. The proportions in a lot 
taken at random are: bister to sepia, more or less streaked, shoulder band 
distinct, weak or wanting, 83; bister to sepia with four pale bands, 11; 
deep olive-buff, 4. 
Length, 14.0 mm.; diameter, 8.3 mm. 
. 13.0 sg 8.0 
Aecording to Dohrn (1878, Jahrb. Deutsch. Malakoz. Ges., V, p. 
151), M. obovatus H. and A. Adams was based on the young stage of M. 
liberianus. The species is known from Liberia, Gold Coast, San Thomé, 
Cameroon, and the mouth of the Congo. 
‘These tiny brownish shells (Melampus liberianus) are common at 
‘Banana on the shore about the strongly brackish part of the bay near 
the entrance to the creek. Dr. Bequaert first called my attention to the 
great numbers that were generally lying below the slight amount of 
drift washed up on the fine sand by the tide in front of the patches of 
marsh grass. Rarely were they imbedded in sand. I saw them only 
at night crawling about the dead leaves and grasses, since during the 
daytime they remain hidden.”’ (H. L.) 
TRALIA Gray 
Tralia Gray, 1840, in Turton, ‘Manual Shells Brit. Isl.,’ 2d Ed., p. 21. Mono- 
type: Voluta pusilla Gmelin = Bulimus ovulus Bruguiére. 
One species has been recorded from West Africa: 
Traia ovulus (Bruguiére)=Bulimus ovulus Bruautire, 1789, ‘Encyclop. 
Méthod., Vers,’ I, p. 339. Voluta pusilla Gme.in, 1791, in Linnzus, ‘Syst. Nat.,’ Ed. 
xi, I, 6, p. 3436. Auricula nitens Kisrer, 1841, in Martini and Chemnitz, ‘Syst. 
Conch. Cab., I, 16, Auriculacea,’ p. 18, Pl. 1, figs. 11-13. Dohrn records this species 
of the Antilles from Prince’s Island and d’Ailly from Cameroon. According to 
Connolly the Natal records are probably due to misidentification. 
Pepipes érussac 
Pedipes “ Adanson” Férussac, 1821, ‘Tabl. Systém. An. Moll,’ pt. 1, p. xxxiii; 
1821 (?), op. cit., ‘Tabl. Systém. Limacons,’ pp. 99 and 109. Type by tautonomy: | 
Bulimus pedipes Bruguiére = Adanson’s “Le Piétin, Pedipes.”’ 
Three species have been thus far reported from the Ethiopian 
Region: c | 
