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rounded, the peristome thickened, subreflexed, brown, the colinncllar 

 margin albo-dentate, terminations approximating, joined by a con- 

 spicuous chestnut-brown callus. Diain. -'I."), alt. 36 mill. (Kobelt.) 



Axi Minor and Syri. 

 Separated from all related forms by the smallness of the aperture. 



H. CINCTA Miiller 1773. PI. 57, fig. 26; pi. (I!), lig. 2*. 



Imperforate, globose or globose-conic, solid, grayish or yellowi-h 

 white with five brown bands, the upper three generally coalescent, 

 coarsely obliquely striate, subdecussated l>y obsolescent spiral im- 

 pressed lines ; spire more or less depressed conic, apex slightly obtuse, 

 white or corneous, unicolored, smooth ; sutures well impressed ; whorls 

 5, rather rapidly increasing, moderately convex, the last large, 

 globose, somewhat indented at the axis and a little descending 

 anteriorly; aperture lunate-rotund, slightly oblique, livid white and 

 showing the bands within ; peristome obtuse, labiate with dull brown, 

 basal margin slightly expanded, columellar margin brown, straight- 

 ened and callous inside, reflected and adnateover the axis; parietal 

 wall with a brown callus. 



Diam. 37, alt. 32; diam. 32, alt. 38 mill. 



Northern Italy, Itfrin. 



H. lemnescata Brumati and H. yrisea Auct. are synonymous. 



Var. POLLINII Da Campo. 



Similar to the type, but pure white in color. 



Dalmatia. 



An albino form. Part of the specimens before me have a more 

 opaque white peripheral fascia, in the place of the light central band 

 of the normal cincta. The peristome is sometimes edged with brown. 



H. ASFMNFS Bourguignat, 1860. PI. 69, fig. 27. 



Imperforate, solid, cretaceous, white or encircled by two or three 

 obscure brown zones, coarsely striate; whorls o, somewhat convex, 

 rapidly increasing; the last large, dilated ; aperture white, lunate- 

 rotund, slightly oblique; peristome simple, acute, white, columellar 

 margin reflexed, appressed, margins somewhat approximating, joined 

 by a thin white callus. Diam. 40, alt. 40 mill, (nuttrt/uit/imt.') 



Mt. T<inri(.-\ Alt<lfo/irn. 



If. solidtt (Zieg.) Albers, is said to be synonymous. 



The above description and figure are taken from the original ones 

 of Bourguignat, and correspond exactly with specimens before me 

 from the original locality. The shell is quite solid, opaque white, 



