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1848, recognized a var. minor, of which he cites P. variegella 

 Ziegl. as a synonym, with the description, "Whorls 8, length 

 9y 2 , diam. 3 mm." No locality is given. Moquin-Taudon, 

 1855, recognized var. variegella for a "shell larger [than 

 typical similis], very distinctly marbled," with the locality 

 Grasse. This interpretation has been accepted by Ct. Caziot 

 (1904). If the name variegella is used at all, it should prob- 

 ably be restricted to the shell figured by Rossmaessler, but a 

 better course would be to discard it as superfluous. 



The following varieties are given for what they are worth- 

 not much in most cases. 



Var. major Moq. Shell larger, of the same color. Saiiite- 

 Lucie near Narbonne; Draguigiian (Moq.-Tand., I. c., pi. 25, 

 f. 22). The figure measures 16.5 mm. long, 4.5 diam. 



Var. minor Moq. Shell smaller. Caziot states that this 

 form is common at the chateau of Nice and other places in the 

 Alpes-Maritimes. Length 9-10, diam. 3 mm.; on the Var 

 river, 8 x 2y 2 mm. 



Var. pachygaster 'Shuttl.,' Moq. Shell of the same size as 

 the typical form [9-13x3-4 mm.] or smaller, more ventricose. 

 Corsica: Ajaccio, Saint-Florent (Moq.-Tand.'). The name is 

 preoccupied. 



Form laevigata West. Irregularly, finely striate or almost 

 smooth. 



Var. porcellata West. Shell subfusiform, rather swollen in 

 the middle, strongly tapering above, very acute, regularly and 

 closely rib-striate; length 11, diam. in the middle 3y 2 mm. 

 Spezzia, Italy. 



Var. fasciata Caziot. Each whorl ornamented with a brown 

 median band, as in Cochlicella. Aqueduct de Carpentras 

 (Alpes-Maritimes) ; also in Provence. 



Var. giiidoni Caziot. Differs from the type by its colora- 

 tion, the cask-like form of the whorls of the spire, the more 

 pronounced suture and the nearly smooth shell. Pioggiola 

 pres le Mont Padro, Corsica, on granite. 



Var. Juliana Issel. Color reddish, more or less intense, 

 probably due to the ferruginous material abundant in the 

 same locality. Baths of S. Giuliano, Prov. Pisa. (Pupa quin- 

 quedentata var. Juliana ISSEL, Memorie Soc. Ital. di Sci. Nat., 

 ii,no. 1,1866, p. 21.) 



