HELIX-HADRA. 165 



"H. RAWNESLEYI Cox. PL 34, fig. 7. 



Shell broadly coniform, openly umbilicated, obliquely finely stri- 

 ated throughout, very dark chestnut, lighter towards the apex, 

 which is ornamented with very narrow spiral bands ; spire raised, 

 bluntly conoid; whorls 7, convex; margin of suture faintly lined 

 with white below; last whorl deflexed in front, base flattened ; um- 

 bilicus large, half closed by the reflexed expansion of the columellar 

 margin ; aperture ovately lunate ; margins much approximated, 

 joined by a thin purple callus; peristome everted, of a dark livid 

 purple, as is also the interior of the aperture ; columella triangular- 

 ly dilated. (Cox.) Alt. 1*58, diam., greatest 1*68, least 1*25 inch. 

 Mt. Elliott, near Port Denison, Queensland, Australia. 



H. rawnesleyi Cox, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 564, t. 48, f. 2. PFR. Mono- 

 graphia, vii. 



Seems to be close to H. lessoni, but the lip is dark colored. 



H. BARNEYI COX. PI. 34, fig. 6. 



Shell with deep open umbilicus, orbicularly conoid, obliquely 

 finely concentrically striated, of a brown yellow color, shining, hav- 

 ing a broad chestnut band below the suture, and a second narrower 

 band below the subcarinated periphery with an undefined lower 

 margin ; spire bluntly convex ; whorls 7, convex, the last consider- 

 ably deflected for about T% of an inch in front ; peristome simple, 

 straight ; lip everted, margins approximating, joined by a dark- 

 colored callus ; columella irregularly dilated and broadly reflected, 

 half covering the umbilicus ; margin of the aperture black within. 

 (Cox.~) Alt. 1*15, greater diam. T30, lesser T10 inch. 



Barney Island, near New Guinea, Torres Straits. 



H. barneyi Cox, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 148, t. 16, f. 2. PFR. Mon. 

 Hel. Viv., vii. 



May be a typical Hadra near H. semicastanea. 



H. MAZEE Brazier. PI. 47, fig. 84. 



Shell with the umbilicus nearly covered, globosely turbinated, 

 rather thick, minutely granulated, obliquely striated, ornamented 

 with spiral chestnut lines and bands, darker and more rugose at the 

 suture ; whorls 5 J, slightly convex, last large and descending in 

 front ; spire conical, apex obtuse ; aperture diagonal, ovately lunate ; 

 peristome thickened and rather broadly reflected, interior of aper- 

 ture blue black, margins approximating and joined by a thin cal- 



