HELIX. 24:: 



white, reflexed, dilated over the umbilicus, which is usually reduced 

 to a narrow fissure or almost wholly covered. Diani. 32, alt. 33 mill. 



Italy. 



The synonymy includes H. decussata Parr., melissojihaga Costa, 

 I'urians Ziegler. 



Var. (U'ssoNEANA Shuttleworth. 



Nearly covered perfoi'ate, couico-globose, solid, distinctly, minute- 

 ly reticulate, brownish white, ornamented with five brown bands ; 

 spire elevated, conoidal ; whorls 5, convex, the last scarcely descend- 

 ing ; columella arcuate; aperture rounded-lunar, shining within; 

 peristome subsimple, the right margin a trifle expanded, columellar 

 dilated, reflexed, white or flesh colored. Diam. 34, alt. 30 mill. 



(Pfeiffer.) Around Naples. 



I am unable to distinguish this variety from the typical form. 



Var. CALABKICA Kobelt. PI. 67, fig. 1. 



Shell marked with five narrow rufous bands ; columella and 

 parietal wall rufous; umbilicus closed; spiral lines subobsolete. 



Diam. 34, alt. 32 mill. 



Calabria. 

 Var. POMATELLA Tibori. PI. 56, figs. 2, 3. 



Small, very distinctly four banded. Southern Italy. 



Var. PR^ETUTIA Tiberi. 



Subrim.it?,, depressed globose, strongly striate, solid, whitish with 

 three broad pale fulvous bands. Diam. 39, alt. 37 mill. 



Near Naples. 



Var. CAMPANA Tiberi. PI. 56, fig. 1. 



Imperforate, elevated globose, glabrous, obsoletely striate, six- 

 banded. Diam. 26, alt. 25 mill. 



Near Naples. 



Var. DELPRETIANA Paulucci. 



Elevated, conic, white, with five very distinctly defined deep brown 

 bands: surface rather smooth; umbilicus almost closed. 

 Diam. 25, alt. 28 mill. 



A bruzzi. 



Var. TRUENTINA Mascariui. Uiifigured. 



An intermediate form between liyata, luconim and pomatia, so 

 equally related to all that Kobelt declares it to be a mere matter of 

 taste to which of these species it be referred. 



Aseoli. 



