446 SHELLS FROM SOLOMON ISLANDS AND AUSTRALLA., 



globosely conical form of the first, but with an absence of the 

 characteristic margin of it and of S. Parso7iiy (Cox.) 



Helix Moresby i, Angas. — '' Shell umbilicated, globosely conical, 

 moderately solid, finely and irregularly obliquely striated, fulvous 

 chestnut, paler at the apex, with various broad and narrow bands 

 of deep brown, darker below the sutures ; spire conical ; whorls 

 six, convex, the last somewhat flattened at the base and excavated 

 towards the umbilicus ; aperture oblique, sublunate, within glossy 

 and of a pale purplish hue, lips black, margins approximating 

 and joined by a thin caUus, outer margin expanded and sub- 

 reflexed, columellar margin dilated, partly concealing the 

 umbilicus. Diam. maj. 23, min. 14, alt. 23 lines." 



'' In its general character this species comes nearer to E. Yulei^ 

 Forbes than to any other ; but it differs in being larger, very 

 much more conical, and in having the base of the last whorl 

 peculiarly flattened." (Angas). 



3. Helix gelata. 

 Helix gelata, Cox, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1873, p. 149. pi. xvi., f. ba. 5h. 

 Profusely ornamented and zoned with opaque white, apex 

 almost black, interior of aperture dark chestnut ; lip white. 



Variety Helix Maddocksi, Brazier. 



Shell light straw yellow, ornamented on the periphery with 

 two dark chestnut bands, the lower being contiguous to the suture, 

 the upper continued a little above the suture, apex reddish ; 

 interior of the aperture white showing the dark chestnut bands ; 

 peristome white ; margins (in some specimens approaching and 

 in others distant) joined with thin white callus, right margin thin, 

 rather broadly expanded and reflected ; outer margin somewhat 

 rounded and deflected ; columellar margin broadly reflected 

 covering about one half of the deep umbilicus. Diam. maj. 12, 

 min. 9^, alt. 7 lines 



