192 HELIX. 



Var. BICINCTA, Benoit. Fig. 64. 



Thin, siibpellucid, rugulosely striated, brownish corneous, Avith 

 two milk-white bauds. Diarn. 15 mill. 



Sicily. 



H. Rizzce, Aradas, is a synonym. 



Var. CRIBRATA, "Westerl. 



Polished, bluish, with two light brownish bands, with radiating 

 stride at the suture and umbilicus. 



Athens. 



H. PIRAJNEA, Benoit. PI. 42, figs. 65, 66. 



Narrowly perforate, thin, shining, subpellucid, rugulosely striate, 

 yellowish corneous or flesh color, spire exserted ; whorls 6, rapidly 

 enlarging, the last descending in front ; peristome acute,' white-lipped 

 within. Diana 18 mill. 



Sicily. 



H. CANTIANA, Montagu. PL 42, figs. 67-69. 



Narrowly umbilicated, thin, pellucid, striate, yellowish corneous ; 

 whorls 5J-6, slightly convex, rapidly enlarging, the last inflated, 

 not descending ; peristome acute, labiate within. Diam. 21 mill. 



Western and Central Europe. 



It is H. carthusiana, Drap, not Miill., H. pallida, Jeffreys, and 

 perhaps H. crepuscular is, Gmel. 



Var. SEMIRUFA, Colbeau. 

 Last whorl brownish. 



Var. ANCON.E, Issel. 



With a white peripheral band, peristome pinkish or yellowish 

 brown. 



Northern Italy, Elba, etc- 



Var. DIRPHICA, Blanc. Figs. 70-74. 



Irregularly, somewhat malleately striate, shining, light yellowish 

 brown, with peripheral and sutural white bands, and yellowish 

 white variciform strigations, apex brown, peristome white-lipped. 



Greece. 

 Var. RUBELLA, Risso. 



Rugulosely malleate, subglobose, reddish anteriorly. 



Var. CAMPANICA, Paulucci. Figs. 72-74. 



Spire more depressed than in var. rubella, last whorl flattened 

 above, more inflated below, umbilicus wider. 



