HELIX. 235 



H. VARIEGATA, Frivaldszky. PL 56, figs. 75, 76. 



Narrowly umbilicated, thin, striulate, white, with brownish strigre 

 and maculations, apex black; whorls 5J, scarcely convex, slowly 

 increasing, the last a little dilated, subdepressed, not descending at 

 the aperture; peristome acute, distinctly labiate within. 



Diam. 11 mill. 



Epirus. 

 Var. PUSTULOSA, Parr. 



Thicker, smoother, light yellowish, the strigse and maculations 

 indistinct. 



Near Constantinople. 



H. MARITIMA, Drap. PI. 56, figs. 67-70, 41, 42. 



Narrowly umbilicated, somewhat solid, thinly striate, opaque, 

 white, fasciate with chestnut or greyish, interrupted, maculated or 

 punctate above, numerous and subcontinuous below; whorls 5^-6, 

 narrow, the last descending a little at the aperture, convex below; 

 peristome simple, acute, with a pink or chestnut interior callus. 



Diam. 8-16 mill. 



France, Italy, Canary Is. etc. 



Is H. lineata, Olivi., H. pseudenhalia, Bourg. (figs. 41, 42), H. 

 Canariensis, Shuttl. ( simulata, Webb and Berth. ?), and H. 

 herbicola, Shuttl. (figs. 13, 14); the three latter Canariau. 



H. LAUTA, Lowe. PL 56, figs. 61, 62. 



Moderately umbilicated, rather thin, white, with obsolete or 

 obscure narrow, interrupted, chestnut bands, a little shining, very 

 closely striate; whorls 5, the last rounded, scarcely descending; 

 peristome acute, labiate within. 



Diam. 11-14 mill. 



France, Algiers, Greece. 



Erroneously referred by Lowe to Porto Sancto, Madeiran 

 Archipelago. H. submaritima, Desm. is a synonym. 



H. MAURITANICA, Bourg. PL 57, figs. 85-89. 



Moderately umbilicated, solid, strongly striate, occasionally sub- 

 lamellar, yellowish white, variously interruptedly zoned and 

 maculated with chestnut; whorls 7, the last ventricose, rounded, a 

 little descending in front; aperture white, peristome simple, acute, 

 remotely white-lipped within. Diam. 20-25 mill. 



Algeria. 



