62 HELIX-PAPUINA. 



streaked and indistinctly spirally banded with the same shade below 

 the peripheral zon.-. Earlier whorls unicolored, corneous or whitish. 

 Aperture oblique, peristorue pink, its face thickened, convex; nar- 

 rowly expanded, reflexed, sinuous. above; columella arcuate, adnate, 

 with n<> tooth or fold. Alt. 18, greater diam. 21, lesser 17* mill. 



Sudest Id., Louisiade Is. 



II. louisiadensis FORBES, Voy. Rattlesnake, appendix, p. 376, t, 

 2, f. ^ I'ri:-. Monogr. iii, p. 174. REEVE, Conch. Icon. f. 1449. 

 //. millidntcB Cox, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 323, t. 34, f. 2, 2a; 1. c. 1873, p. 

 566. PFR. Monogr. vii, p. 313. H. Thomsoni E. A. SMITH, Ann. 

 Ma-. N- H. 1889, p. 202, t. 13, f. 12, 13. 



This species has the lip like H. fringilla, but the spire is conical 

 and the surface finely wrinkled. Slightly differing varieties occur 

 on the different islands. 



Var. MILLICENTJE Cox. PI. 4, figs. 64, 65. 



Differs from the type in having the lip white, and more produced 

 forward above. 



Var. THOMSONI Smith. PI. 7, figs. 31, 32. 



I m perforate, subconic-globose, rosy-purple, spotted and variegated 

 with pale buff, closely sculptured with lines of growth, and minutely 

 obliquely corrugated ; whorls 4J, a little convex, rapidly widening, 

 separated by simple sutures, the last whorl at first carinated, the 

 carina becoming obsolete, at the aperture suddenly deflexed, con- 

 st ri< -ted behind the lip; aperture oblique, elongated, rosy -purple 

 inside ; peristome whitish, expanded and reflexed, upper margin 

 siniiated forward ; columellar margin appressed, obliquely recti- 

 lineal- within. Alt. 18, greater diam. 27, lesser 20 mill. (Smith.) 

 Var. Shell subdiapnanous, varied and spotted with buff. 



St. Aignan, Louisiade Group. 



H. wnom.AKKiANA Souvcrbie. PI. 3, figs. 42, 43. 



[inperforate, semiglobose, obliquely striate, very finely granulose- 

 nialli-atf, ln-rr and there very obsoletely spirally striate ; rather thin, 

 shining, subtranslucid, violaceous, darker at the apex, paler at the 

 umbilical r -j-iun, having four whitish bands, the three upper more 

 01- Irs- interrupted and brown, the fourth is wider and continuous, 

 at tin- periphery. Circuin-mnbilical area paler, having three narrow, 

 ill-delim-d whitish band-. Whorls 4, convex, the suture impressed, 

 tin- la-t whorl earinated, mure convex beneath, a little descending in 



