230 HELIX. 



Subsection II, HELIOMAXES. Moquin-Tandon, 1855. 



H. VABIABILIS, Drap. PL 54, figs. 88-92 ; PI. 55, figs. 93-95, 2. 



Moderately uinbilicated, striate, smooth, whitish or yellowish, 

 unicolored or variously ornamented with interrupted chestnut 

 bands; whorls 5-6, the last slightly descending in front; aperture 

 often brownish white, peristome acute, brown lipped within. 



Diam. 12-19 mill. 



Europe. 



The synonyms are numerous: H. slriata, Brard, H. zonaria, Don. 



H. subalbida, Poir. H. obsoleta, and H. maculosa, Ziegl., H. monili- 

 fera, Menke, H. Burdigalensis, Grat., H. elegans, Brown?, H. dis- 

 juncta, Turton ? H. Istriensis, Ziegl. H. virgata, Montg. (Fig. 2.), 



and var. subalbida, Poiret. 



Var. TURBINATA, Cafici. PI. 55, fig. 95. 

 Shell with spire greatly elevated. 



Sicily. 

 , H. DANIELI, Bourg. PI. 55, figs. 96-98. 



Narrowly umbilicated, chalky, opaque, whitish, regularly costu- 

 late-striate ; whorls 7, convex, regularly increasing; peristome 

 simple, acute, white-lipped within. Diam. 10 mill. 



Brittany. 



H. EUPHORCA, Bourg. PL 55, figs. 99-1 ; PL 57, figs, 18-20. 



Narrowly perforate, thin, white, chalky, irregularly substriate, 

 obscurely malleate, apex black ; whorls 6, slightly convex above, 

 rapidly increasing, the last ventricosely rounded ; peristome acute, 

 white-lipped within. Diam. 19 mill. 



Algeria-, Dep. Herault, France. 



H. JICKELII, Nevill. PL 55, figs. 3, 4. 



Perforate, rather thin, irregularly striate, stride, becoming rib- 

 like about the suture ; whitish, with chestnut bands, suture linear 

 impressed ; whorls 6, slowly enlarging, the last subinflated, oblique- 

 ly dilated, slightly descending in front ; peristome acute, with inte- 

 rior callus. Diam. 16 mill. 



Abyssinia. 



Is included by Ancey in his new group Lejeania. 



H. HYDRUNTINA, Blanc. PL 55, figs. 5, 6. 



Moderately umbilicated, thin, irregularly striate, chalky white, 



