14 HELIX-PAPUINA. 



chocolate-brown, the margins approximate, slightly thickened and 

 expanded, the right flexuous above. 



Alt. 22, greater diam. 22, lesser, 19 mill. (Angas.*) 



Ysabel Island, Solomon Group. 



Geotrochus coxianus ANGAS, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 889, t. 43, f. 7, 8.- 

 H. coxiana PFR., Mon. vii, p. 313. 



H. FUCATA Pfeiffer. PI. 16, figs. 9, 10. 



Shell imperforate, globosely-conical, rather solid, shining, porcel- 

 laneous, under the lens-obliquely striated, also but more faintly 

 spirally and decussatedly striated ; white with three black spiral 

 bands, and another faint reddish one above each of the central 

 bands ; spire sharply conical, acute and reddish at the apex, suture 

 smooth ; whorls 5, nearly flat, last convex slightly descending, base 

 rather flat, with a black umbilical mark ; aperture diagonal, 

 Innately oval ; peristome thin, right margin rather straight, anteriorly 

 produced and curved, left expanded and reflected, columellar margin 

 tinged with pink. ( Cox.} 



Alt. 14J, greater diam. 17, lesser 15 mill. 



Wide Bay and Marysborough, Queensland, Australia. 



H. fucata PFR., Zeitschr. f. Mai. 1853, p. 56; P. Z. S. 1853, p. 

 59; Mou.Hel. Viv. iii, p. 641. Rv. f. 1029. Cox, Monog. p. 67, 

 t. 2, f. 8. 



H. CONSCENDENS Cox. PI. 8, figs. 50, 51. 



Shell imperforate, globosely conical, very thin, pellucid, some- 

 what glassy, rather shining, under the lens obsoletely obliquely stri- 

 ated ; whitish, with one band more or less conspicuously colored ; 

 spire conical, colored at the tip ; whorls 6, slightly convex, last very 

 large, slightly deflected, with an obsolete keel ; aperture diagonal, 

 lunately ovate ; peristome thin, outer margin somewhat sinuated, 

 columella above slightly reflected. 



Diam. greatest 0*60, least 0'50, height 0'55 of an inch. (Cox.~) 



Lismore, Upper Richmond River, Australia. 



H. conscendens Cox, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 374 ; Mon. Austr. L. Sh. 

 p. 67, t. 2, f. 6. 



(2.) GROUP OF H. META. 



Narr-oivly obliquely perforated; elevated conical, the periphery 

 rounded or carinated ; last whorl not descending in front. Surface 

 smooth, lightly obliquely striatulate. Distribution, Solomon Is. 



