238 HELIX-POMATIA. 



Allied to H. ceratomma Pfr., but having a wider umbilical chink, 

 the lip-terminations more approaching, joined by a thin (in old 

 examples a thick) callus ; the spiral sculpture is developed only on 

 the last whorl above, and is much weaker ; and the aperture is less 

 oblique. 



H. NINIVITA Galland. PI. 34, figs. 55, 56, 57. 



Shell broadly umbilicated (the umbilicus much dilated toward the 

 aperture and elliptical), depressed, slightly convex ; strongly 

 striated above, finely below ; unicolored whitish or gray-white, with 

 faint white flecks and two interrupted chestnut-brown bands. 

 "Whorls 5, irregularly increasing, the first two flattened, acutely 

 keeled at the suture, the following narrowly coiled, somewhat con- 

 vex, the last whorl very large, rounded, elevated above the penult- 

 imate in front and then deeply descending. Aperture very oblique, 

 transversely oval-rotund ; peristome continuous, thick, broadly 

 expanded and reflexed. 



Alt. 10, diam. 39 mill. ( Wester 1.) 



Mossul, Kurdistan. 



H. ninivita GALL., Bull. Soc. Mai. Fr. 1885, p. 234, t. 7, f. 9-11. 

 WESTERL. Fauna, p. 396. 



Section POMATIA Beck (Vol. IV, p. 232.) 



H. MAZZULOPSIS Ancey, u. sp. PI. 46, figs. 41, 42. 



Shell globose conoid, higher than broad, imperforate, rather thin ; 

 whitish-corneous under a very thin (deciduous ?) yellowish cuticle, 

 with 5 dark brown bands, the 3d and 4th wider; and sculptured with 

 very unequal, irregularly spaced, opaque white, oblique wrinkles. 

 Spire conoidal, apex obtuse, the earlier 1? whorls smooth, corneous, 

 brown at the sutures ; following whorls banded and wrinkled, very 

 rapidly increasing, the last sloping above, ventricose below, descend- 

 ing in front. Aperture oblique, ovate, showing the bands within ; 

 lip simple, thin; columella broadly arcuate. 



Alt. 32, diam. 27 mill.: oblique alt. of aperture 25 mill. 



Alt. 38, diam. 32 mill.; oblique alt. of aperture 28 mill. 



Jurjura Mts., Algeria. 



This species differs markedly from H. mazzidii in the coarse, 

 unequal, unevenly spaced white wrinkles. It resembles the Sicilian 

 species in contour. I have been unable to find any description or 



