HELTCARION. 175 



II. Species of Asia and the East Indies. 



H. AUSTENIANUS, Nevill. PI. 40, figs. 7, 8, 9. 



Semiglobose, heliciforra, thin, glossy, brownish yellow; whorls 

 5, with deep suture, last whorl a little slopingly depressed above; 

 aperture rounded-lunate, a little oblique, columellar lip slightly 

 reflected above over the umbilical region. 



Diam. 15'5, alt. 7'5 mill. 



Sonamarg, Kashmir. 



H. STOLICZKANUS, Nevill. PL 40, figs. 10-12. 



Depressed, thin, translucent, yellowish horn-color; whorls 5, 

 rather narrow, convex, striated, with deep suture. 



Diam. 21, alt. 10 mill. 



Kashmir. 



Confounded by Reeve, Hanley, etc., with H. monticola, Benson. 

 Is possibly a small variety of H. cassida, with less exserted whorls 

 and rather differently colored. 



H. SOGDIANUS, Martens. PL 40, figs. 13-15. 



Very narrowly perforate, depressed, lightlj* plicatulate, with 

 obscure impressed spiral lines, shining, amber-colored, suture 

 margined ; whorls 4|- to 5 ; columellar margin a little reflexed 



above. Diam. 22, alt. 11 mill. 



Samarkand. 

 H. FLEMINGI, Pfr. PL 40, figs. 16-18. 



Globosely depressed, thin, above plicately striate, wi'th obscure 

 spiral impressed lines, rather dull, olivaceous-fulvous, suture nar- 

 rowly white-margined; whorls 4J, the last large, very slightly 

 compressed around the periphery, base smoother and more 

 shining ; aperture pearly, the columellar lip a little reflected 



above. Diam. 33, alt. 18 mill. 



India. 

 H. CASSIDA, Hutton. PL 40; figs. 19, 20. 



Depressed, thin, striulate, barely shining, subdiaphanous, light 

 greenish yellow, spire very depressed conoidal, suture submargi- 

 nate ; whorls scarcely 5, rapidly enlarging, the last widely rounded , 

 base wide, impressed in the middle ; aperture pearly, columellar 

 lip subcallous above. Diam. 20, alt. 12 mill. 



Simla, Western Himalayas. 



See remarks under H. Stoliczkanus, above. 



