126 HELIX. 



H. AIMOPHILA, Bourguignat. PI. 34, fig. 88. 



Globose, subperforate, solid, chalky white, irregularly striate, 

 apex obtuse, sutures impressed, aperture obloug lunate, peristome 

 simple, acute, columella reflexed, almost covering umbilicus. 



Diam. 25, alt. 23 mill. 



Asia Minor. 



Var. TCHIHATCHEFFI, Kobelt. PI. 35, fig. 17. 



Umbilicus wider ; conspicuously five fasciate. 



Biledschik. 



Var. AIMOPHILOPSIS, Villeserre, Unfigured Asia Minor. 



It is similar to aimopkila, but imperforate. 



H. GIBBOSULA, Desh. PI. 35, fig. 3. 



Globose, irregularly striate, white, with three unequal bauds, 

 spire short, conic, obtuse ; whorls 5, narrow, convex, the last large, 

 convex, imperforate ; base gibbous ; aperture small, semilunar, lip 

 slightly thickened, wide below. Diam. 17, alt. 16 mill. 



Habitat unkiiod'n. 



I know nothing of the real position of this species or of the next. 

 It may be identical with some of the preceding, or possibly belong- 

 ing to a wholly different group. 



H. FILOSA, Desh. PI. 35, fig. 18. 



Imperforate, subglobose, smooth, yellowish, encircled by narrow 

 dark bands, which are continued upon the peristome ; spire short, 

 apex obtuse, reddish ; whorls 5, slightly convex ; aperture rotund 

 semilunar, peristome labiate, dilated, white with purplish spots. 



Diam. 30, alt. 25 mill. 



Habitat unltnoum. 



Like vindobonensis, but in that species the bauds are not contin- 

 ued to the margin of lip. 



H. LITTUREA, Pfr. PI. 35, fig. 16. 



Imperforate, turbinate, semiglobose, solid, striate, minutely ru- 

 gose, malleate, shining, pinkish, with revolving series of reddish 

 markings ; spire depressed turbinate, apex somewhat acute, whorls 

 5, slightly convex, the last scarcely descending, with rounded periph- 

 ery, encircled by chestnut tessellated bands ; base convex ; aperture 

 rotund lunar, peristome simple, right margin expanded, columellar 



subcallous. Diam. 23, alt. 15 mill. 



Habitat unknown. 

 Perhaps is a form of H. sylvatica. 



