(HI HELIX-ALBERSIA. 



The jaw of H. pubicepa is arcuate and ribbed. 

 H. GRANULATA Quoy & Gaimard. PL 19, figs. 1, 2. 



Shell covered perforate, globose, delicately granulate, golden or 

 rufous encircled with a brown band. Spire short ; whorls 5*, nearly 

 plane, the last large, inflated. Aperture ample, lunate-elliptical ; 

 peristome little reflexed, white, the columellar margin emarginate, 

 broadly dilated, wholly closing the perforation. 



Alt. 33, greater diam. 50, lesser 41 mill. (Pfr.') 



Port Doreij, New Guinea; Is. of Waigheu. 



H. granulata Q. & G., Voy. Astrol. Zool. ii, p. 95, t. 7, f. 6-9. 

 FER. & DESH., Hist., p. 249, t. 28 A, f. 9-10. RVE, Conch. Icon., 

 t. 69, f. 358. PFR., Conchyl. Cab., t. 137, f. 13, 14; Monogr. i, p. 

 233; iii, p. 181. H. (Pomatia) granulata PFR., Versuch. etc., p. 

 ISS.Albersia granulata WALLACE, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 410. H. 

 (Albersia) granulata PFR., Nomencl. Hel. Yiv., p. 198. TAPPARONE 

 CANEFRI, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. xix, p. 185. 



Variety. Shell dark blackish-brown, the band slightly darker ; 

 surface shortly hirsute ; spire a little higher ; peristome lilac, broadly 

 expanded and revolute. 



Alt. 33, greater diam. 50, lesser 39. (Pfr.) 



H. PUBICEPA Martens. PI. 19, figs. 9, 10, 11. 



Shell subglobose, thin, striatulate, downy, the hairs standing in 

 quincunx ; fleshy-brown, with a reddish peripheral band, pale, 

 bordered above and below. Spire convex ; whorls 5, the last in- 

 flated, a little descending in front. Aperture moderately oblique, 

 lunate-rounded ; peristome shortly reflexed, thin, rufescent, margins 

 remote from one another ; columella obliquely descending, thickened, 

 flesh-color. (Mts.) 



Alt. 24. greater diam. 36, lesser 28 mill. 



Alt. 20 >, greater diam. 29, lesser 24 mill. 



Hiifniiiheira and Batjan, Moluccas. In gardens and the forest, 

 not common. 



Cochlostyla pubicepa MARTENS, Monatsb. Berl. Akad. 1864, p. 

 26! . If. (Albersia) pubicepa Mrs., Preuss. Exped. nach Ostas., 

 Landx-lin., p. 329, t. 18, f. 2. PFR., Monogr. v, p. 281. Helix 

 tortistylis Mousy., in coll. 



Intermediate between the coarsely granulose If. granulata and 

 tli<- smooth H. zonulata. It is allied to, or at least similar to H. 



