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on a mound-like rocky islet, distant from tlie shore a couple of 

 hundred yards, a small, dull, solid variety, not exceeding- an inch in 

 diameter, but undeniably specifically identical, was met with. A pale 

 band round the periphery is very often present, and marks the 

 division between the upper light and the lower dark portions of the 

 shell. Yet this may be wanting, there being no line of demarcation, 

 the whole surface being yellowish-white. And as a contrast to these 

 last, some specimens are throughout of a dark-chestnut. The differ- 

 ence in size is very great ; my smallest specimen, fully formed, is 

 less than an inch in diameter. H. funiculata, described elsewhere, 

 I would refer to this head without hesitation ; a specimen before 

 ine, picked out from a number collected on Stephen's Island, agrees 

 with the descriptions of Pfeiffer and Reeve, and the figure of the 

 latter ; it is of a fulvous chestnut colour, encircled with a single 

 pale zone. 



142. Helix Yulei. Forbes. Plate V. Fig. 3. M.C. 

 Forbes, Toy. Rattlesnake, Vol. II., p. 377. PI. II. Fig. 6. 



Reeve, Cone. Icon. sp. 1447. 



Shell umbilicated, depressly-globose, obliquely finely striated, ful- 

 vous, ornamented with broad blackish zones ; spire sub-conoid, 

 rather obtuse at the apex ; whorls 5, rather convex, the last descend- 

 ing in front, rounded at the periphery, rather fiat at the base ; um- 

 bilicus funnel shaped, dark-chestnut ; aperture almost diagonal, 

 lunately sub-circular, lip black, margins approximating, broadly ex- 

 panded, columellar margin dilated. 



Diameter, greatest 1*36; least 1'10; height 87 of an inch. 



Habitat. Port Molle, and Islands off Port Denison, Queensland. Mac- 

 Gillivrag. 



I have adopted Pfeift'er's description, Mon. Hel. J'iv , Vol. III., p. 

 224, as ReeA-e has done, because it has been taken from the typical 

 specimen clesmbed by Forbes. My own, from Port Denison, are 

 paler than in Reeve's figure, but still have a decided fulvous tinge 

 in some cases ; the number of dark chestnut spiral lines and bands 

 varies from 4 to 8. The black lip and umbilical patch afford dis- 

 tinctive characters between this and //. Incei, to which it is most 

 intimately allied. 



143. Helix Blomfieldi. Cox. Plate I. Fig. 1. M.C. 

 Cox, Catalogue of Australian Land Shells, p. 19, 1864. 



Shell imperforate, solid, globosely-conical, very finely closely striated, 

 deep purplish-chestnut on body whorl, the second generally very much 

 lighter, and the remainder reddish-yellow, these last usually have a 

 few very inconspicuous spiral coloured lines or bands, and obsolete 

 microscopic spiral lines ; spire large, very gradually-conical, blunt, 

 suture margined below with yellow ; whorls 6, rather convex, 2nd 

 large, 3rd very large, inflated, much produced, slightly convex above 

 to the periphery ; aperture diagonal, ovately lunate, within glossy, 

 of a purplish-leaden hue ; peristome straight, everywhere expanded, 

 and reflected, margins joined by a thin callus, columellar margin 



