HELIX-PHANIA. 195 



Whorls a little convex, slowly increasing, the last deeply descending 

 in front, and losing the keel just behind the lip. Aperture very 

 oblique, transversely oblong, white within, or tinged with the color 

 of the lip. Peristome broadly expanded, reflexed, red ; the baso- 

 columellar lip adnate to the base of the shell for nearly half the dis- 

 tance from center to circumference. It is broadly dilated and 

 adherent over the umbilical tract ; inner edge of the columella pro- 

 jecting into the aperture in a rather broad, convex lobe or blade; 

 parietal wall with a light callus the same color as the lip or lighter. 

 Surface lightly obliquely striated, more or less obviously malleated 

 above and below the peripheral keel. 



Alt. 33, greater diam. 56, lesser 46 mill. 



Alt. 32, greater diam. 54, lesser 42 mill. 



Island of Halmaheira, ('Jilolo' or ' Gilolo'} Moluccas. 



H. pyrostoma FER., Histoire, t. 15, f. 3, 4. PFR., Symbols iii, p. 

 73 ; Monographia Hel. Viv. i, p. 295 ; Kiister's Gonchyl. Cab. p. 

 25, t. 67, f. 4, 5. REEVE, Conch. Icon. f. 176. VON MARTENS 

 Preuss. Exped. nach Ostasien, Landschnecken, p. 325. DOHRN in 

 Conchyl. Cab., p. 598, t. 175, f. 4. TAPPARONE CANEFRI Annali 

 del Mus. Civ. di Storia Nat. di Genova, xx, p. 160, 1884. Carocolla 

 pyrostoma GRAY. Lucerna pyrostoma H. & A. AD. H. (Phania) 

 pyrostoma ALBERS. Phania pyrostoma MORCH, Journ. de Conchyl. 

 xiii, p. 381. WALLACE, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 408. 



A magnificent species, very variable in size, degree of carination 

 and especially color. The indentations of the surface, like repousse 

 work, are more constant and prominent on the base. They are not 

 seen on the spire whorls. The keel is marked by a light line. One 

 of the specimens before me is much more obtusely keeled than the 

 figure on plate 20. 



Var. BUCCULENTA Tapparone Canefri. 



Shell large, aperture wider, transversely ovate, peristome of a rich 

 orange color. Alt. 35, greater diam. 66, lesser 51 mill. ; width of 

 aperture 46, alt. 31 mill., measured outside of lip and columellar 

 callus. 



Var. EXTINCT A Tapparone Canefri. 



Shell very large for the species, the spire more elevated, peristome 

 porcelain-white. 



This variety should be compared with the H. patricia of Pfeiffer ; 

 it may be the same. 



