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[Patula strigosa] var. newcombi was named without description 

 by Binney in 1885 (Man. Amer. L. Shells, p. 481), designating U. S. 

 Natl. Mus. Nos. 39,023 and 39,025 to 39,038, from "near Ogden, " 

 "Wasatch Mountains" and "Box Elder Canyon." In his Second 

 Suppl. Terr. Moll., 1886, he figured and briefly described it, hence 

 the name is valid only from that date. The description and figures 

 indicate much fewer and more widely spaced ribs than any of our 

 material from that region. 0. wasatchensis (Hemph.) may connect 

 up with peripherica as a subspecies, through newcombi, but it is 

 doubtful, and until that problem can be investigated it seems better 

 to consider it a full species. 

 Oreohelix peripherica (Ancey). PI. XV, figs, l, 2, 3, 4 



Helix idahoensis Newcomb, var. peripherica Ancey, he Naturaliste, IV, 



403, 1881. 

 Patula strigosa; vars. binneyi, multicostata, gouldi, albofasciata and cast, mat* 



Hemphill, in Binney's 2nd Suppl. to 5th Vol. Terr. Moll. U. S., pp. 29-32, 



PL II, figs. 3-6, 8, 11, 13, 14, 16, 1886; 4th Suppl., p. 171, PI. 4, fig. 9, 1S92. 

 Patula peripherica (1882, multicostata 1886) and castaneus. Ancey, The 



Conchologists' Exchange, II, 64, 1887. 

 Pyramidula strigosa binneyi and forms multicostata, castanea and albofasciata 



Pilsbry, Naut., XI, 141, 1898; Cat. Amer. Land Shells, p. 32, 1898. 

 Oreohelix peripherica and local races binneyi, newcombi, multicostata, gouldi, 



albofasciata and castaneus Pilsbry, Naut., XXVII, 53-54, 1913. 



The following is a free translation from the French of Ancey's 

 original description : 



"I owe to the kindness of Dr. Newcomb a second variety of this 

 species, with the same shape as the first one, but with a more open 

 umbilicus, ornamented on the periphery with two narrow brown 

 lines, the lower one being more decidedly marked, and provided 

 with ribs, close, irregular and little in relief. It so closely resembles 

 the shape of Helix (Anguispira) cooperi W. G. Binn., that I think 

 it might well be an hybrid displaying the characteristics of the 

 Helix idahoensis and cooperi. It measures 9 mm. in height and 14 

 mm. in diameter, and comes from Utah. As to form and color it 

 looks much like the Helix cooperi (No. 136) of Binney and Bland's 

 Land and Fresh-water Shells of North America, but it has ribs, 

 while the latter has none. I propose to name this interesting variety 

 Helix idahoensis Newcomb var. peripherica.'" 



The ' ' first one " referred to above is O. idahoensis. We see no reason 

 for making this a subspecies or variety of either idahoensis, strigosa 

 or cooperi. It is interesting to note that Ancey himself pointed out 

 its identity with multicostata and the* priority of his name, in his 

 paper above cited from The Conchologists' Exchange. A careful 

 study of Hemphill's material in the Clapp collection, taken in 



