194 HELIX-PHANIA. 



; that the eggs are few and as a consequence comparatively 

 large, the young, when hatched, having a shell of several whorls. 



Shell spirally malleated, especially on the base. 



H. LAMP AS Miiller. PL 59, fig. 42. 



Shell imperforate, somewhat lens-shaped, rather thin, tawny, 

 delicately striate, malleated, acutely keeled ; spire little elevated ; 

 whorls 5, nearly flat, the last shortly descending in front, the base 

 more convex, encircled by obsolete raised lines. Aperture trans- 

 verse, subtriangular, livid or yellowish within ; peristome simple, 

 slightly thickened, orange colored, the right margin expanded, 

 basal margin reflexed, appressed, columellar margin dilated. (P/K) 



Alt. 29, greater diam. 74, lesser 64 mill. 



Island of Halmaheira, Moluccas. 



H. lampas MULLER Hist. Verm, ii, p. 12. GMELIN, Syst. Nat. 

 xiii, p. 3619. PFR. Mon. Hel. Viv. i, p. 292. REEVE, Conch. Icon, 

 f. 205. H. (Phania) lampas Mull., ALBERS, Die Hel. 2d. Edit., p. 

 157. MARTENS, Ostas. Conchyl., p. 326. TAPPARONE CANEFRI, 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Geuova, xx, p. 157, 1884. Helix carocolla CHEM- 

 NITZ, (not of Linn). Helix carina WOOD, Index Test. Suppl. p. 

 23, t. 7, f. 57. Corocolla magna SCHUMACHER, Essai Nouv. Syst., 

 p. 192. Corocolla lampas GRAY and others. Discodoma yigas 

 SWAINS., Malacol., p. 329. 



The largest species of Phania. It is larger, and more depressed 

 than H. pyrostoma. I have not been able to procure examples. 

 Full notes on three specimens taken at Halmaheira, are given by 

 Tapparone Canefri, who was the.first to announce the home of the 

 species, which was formerly unknown, although the shell was des- 

 cribed in the last century. 



H. PYROSTOMA Ferussac. PI. 20, fig. 42. 



Shell large, imperforate, depressed, carinated, about equally con- 

 vex above and below; more or less malleated above and below the 

 carina ; whorls 4 to 4| ; color buff or flesh-colored under a thin 

 brown epidermis; lip broadly expanded, reflexed, red, varying 

 toward either orange or vermillion. 



The shell is solid, strong, the circumference more or less acutely 

 keeled. The color varies from chestnut to light buff, under a thin 

 epidermis, lost on the spire and the base in front of the aperture. 



