52 NEKITINA. 



The synonyms are N. Jordcmi, var. nitida, Recluz, N. nigrita, 

 Ziegler, N. nitida, Parr., N. interposita, Mouss. I follow von Mar- 

 tens in designating four varieties for convenience only ; their char- 

 acters have no permanence. 



Var. Bellardii, Mouss. Fig. 71. 

 Larger, black, subangulated. 

 N. Schirazensis, Bourg. is a synonym. 



Var. Hausknechti, Martens. Fig. 68. 



Size moderate, obsoletely angulated, fulminately strigate. 



Var. Olivieri, Martens. Fig. 70. • 



Size moderate, rounded, light violaceous, spirally banded. 



Var. BELLADONNA, Mousson. Fig. 69. 

 Small, rounded, subdilated, black. 

 It is N. Trojana, Charp., and var. Boissieri, Martens. 



N. Macrii, Recluz. PI. 17, figs. 72-74. 



Globosely ovate, a little shining, lightly striulate, unicolored 

 black, rarely fulminately strigate on a lighter color; columellar 

 area convex, whitish, margin edentulous. 



Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine. 



Has not the spiral stride which rather indistinctly mark N. Anato- 

 lica. The synonyms are N. Karasuna, Mouss., and N. Michonii, 

 Bourg. 



N. Mesopotamica, Mousson. PL 17, fig. 75. 



Lightly striulate, shining, black, usually unicolored, rarely ma- 

 culated with white, whorls scarcely convex, the last somewhat flat- 

 tened above, wider l)elow ; a2:)erture bluish white, columellar area 

 rather wide, plane, minutely rugulose, mai'gin finely denticulate. 



Diam. 6*5-7 mill. 



Upper Mesopotamia. 



Described as a variety of N. meridionalis, and at first considered 

 by Martens a variety of N. Anatolica. 



N. ciNCTELLA, Martens. PI. 17, fig. 76. 



Lightly striulate, somewhat shining, greenish olivaceous or black- 

 ish, last whorl tumid below the suture, then constricted, base wider ; 

 aperture bluish white, columellar area convex, greyish, margin mi- 

 nutely denticulate. Diam. 4'5 mill. 



Upper Mesopotamia. 



