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prevailing form is longitudinally banded ; and in the district of 

 Maisi the specimens are small, globose, solid, and highly colored. 



The form known as H. SULPHUROSA Morelet, (pi. 13, figs. 78-80) 

 does not seem to have any distinctive specific characters. It is small, 

 globular, shining, yellow, unicolored or marked with white, suture 

 bordered by a narrow dark line. Alt. 16, diam. 18-20 mill. 



Baraeas and Jibara, Cuba. 



H. VERSICOLOR Born. PL 13, figs. 72-74. 



Imperforate, subglobose, thin, solid, opaque, white, encircled by 

 well-defined black, brown, yellow, red, and green bands, or by brown 

 or blackish alone or in combination with one or two of the other 

 colors ; no longitudinal dark streaks nor dots scattered over the upper 

 surface ; spire subconoidal ; whorls 4, the last slightly descending an- 

 teriorly; aperture rather small, oblique, rounded-lunar; peristorne 

 thin, acute ; columella and parietal wall pink. 



Alt. 22, diam. 25 mill. 



South-eastern Cuba. 



. versicolor BORN, Test. Mus. Cces. p. 386, t. 16, f. 9, 10. FER., 

 Hist. t. 17, f. 1-3. PFR. in Conchyl Cab. t. 28, f. 10, 11 ; Monog- 

 raphic, i, p. 26 ; v, p. 49, 465. ARANGO, Fauna, p. Qi.H. globulosa 

 PFR. ftymb. ii, p. 29. (If. pictoria et cincta, PERRY, Conchology, t. 

 15, figs. 1, 3. ?) Polymita versicolor BECK, Index, p. 45. W. G. 

 BINNEY, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. iii, p. 90. 



Separated from H. picta by the numerous, variously colored, 

 well-defined bands, the lack of oblique streaks, smaller aperture, 

 sharper lip, etc. From H. muscarum by the different color-pattern, 

 lacking dots scattered on the upper surface, and the less con- 

 tracted aperture. 



H. MUSCARUM Lea, PI. 15, figs. 16-19. 



Imperforate, globose, solid, opaque, variously colored. The prin- 

 cipal patterns are (1) white, unicolored with scattered dots of translu- 

 cent gray ; (2) ochraceous, with a dark subsutural line, with or with- 

 out two supra-peripheral white or blackish bands, dotted with dark 

 all over ; (3) white, with peripheral ochraceous or black, or ochra- 

 ceous and black bands, dotted as usual, or (4) very sparsely dotted ; 

 bands of black or chestnut, white and ochraceous. Spire more or 

 less elevated, but with a peculiarly depressed aspect to the upper 

 whorls. Whorls 4, apex scarcely flattened, last whorl descending 



