32 HELIX HEMITROCHUS. 



with a continuous blackish peripheral fascia and a number of brown 

 spiral bands. Alt. 9-10, diam. 12 mill. 



Trinidad, (and BaracoaT) Cuba. 



H. LUCIPETA Poey. PI. 20, figs. 72-78, 80, 81. 



Subimperforate, globose-depressed, thin but strong, smoother than 

 H. gilva, the incremental wrinkles not conspicuous ; surface polished, 

 bright and shining all over ; spire low, frequently with a very obtuse 

 appearance, color yellowish or fleshy-white, densely longitudinally 

 marked with narrow brown stripes, which are broken into spiral 

 series or girdles by numerous revolving white zones. There are no 

 continuous spiral color bands as there are in H. gilva. Whorls 4i, 

 convex, apex minute, corneous, suture impressed ; last whorl wide, 

 rounded at the periphery, more globose than it is in H. gilva, some- 

 what deflexed anteriorly, rather tumid around the umbilicus, sub- 

 constricted behind the aperture on the base ; aperture oblique, round- 

 lunar, generally brown, banded with white within ; peristome very 

 narrowly expanded, only a trifle if at all labiate ; columella margin 

 almost covering the narrow umbilicus by a triangular reflection 

 usually pinkish in color ; terminations of the peristome somewhat ap- 

 proaching. Alt. 9-10, diam. 13-14 mill. 



Trinidad, Manzanillo, Guantanamo and Bayamo, Cuba. 



H.picturata POEY, Memorias, i, p. 209, 212, t, 26, f. 1-5. (not of 

 Ad.) IT. lucipeta POEY, /. c. p. 447 ; ii, p. 51. (1857 ?) -Pre. Monogr., 

 iv, p. 265. ARANGO, Fauna Mai. Cubana p. 76. H. lepida POEY, 

 Mem. i, p. 209, 212, t. 26, f. 6-10. (preoc.) H. bellula POEY, Mem. 

 ii, p. 7. PFR. Monogr. iv, 264. H. penicillata POEY, Mem. ii, p. 

 27, t. 1, f. 6-10 (not of Gould) H. newcombiana POEY, Mem. ii, p. 

 28. H. velasqneziana POEY, Mem. ii, p. 28, t. l,f. 1-5. 



The description above is drawn from specimens received from the 

 author. Some shells are nearly as depressed as H. gilva ; but none 

 are as widely umbilicated as typical examples of that species. 



Var. VELASQUEZIANA Poey. PI. 20, figs. 80, 81. 



Smiliar in form to lucipeta or more depressed ; lip white or tint- 

 ed ; color-markings coalescent into two broad dark continuous 

 bands ; subsutural and peripheral white zones articulated with nar- 

 row dark streaks as the same tracts are in H. lucipeta. 



I am not sure that my shells (figs. 72, 73) are the same as Poey's 

 H. velasqueziana. His figures are copied on my plate 20, figs. 80, 



