A Manual of Conchology / According to the System Laid Down by Lamarck, with the Late Improvements by De Blainville. Exemplified and Arranged for the Use of Students.

by Thomas Wyatt

Shell oval or slightly sub-turriculated; aperture oval, without trace of tube, but hollowed anteriorly, without a posterior sinus; the columellar edge callous and rather deeply excavated; operculum horny, sub-spiral, rather complete.

Melanopsis Buccinoides.

M. costata.

M. lævigata.

M. Buccinoides. The Buccinum-shaped Melanopsis. Pl. [20], fig. 6.

Species turriculated; colour bluish white, clouded with purple; spiral whorls dentated.

M. costata. The ribbed Melanopsis.

Species sub-turriculated and ribbed.

M. lævigata. The polished Melanopsis.

Species ovate, smooth, chestnut colour.