HELIX.— Plate XXXI. 



lata, epidermide leriatim setigerd indutS, basi glabrd, 

 niiidd, luUitcente, fascia laid brunned ii\fra peri- 

 pher'um ; apird depremo-coiioided ; anfractibwi »ex, 

 coHvexit ; aperturd mibroliiiido-lunari ; perUtomate 

 simplici, inargiite colutiwllari incraamto. 

 The bbistly Helix. Shell i-oiiccalfdly slightly luiibili- 

 catcd, soniewtiat stniiglobosc, thin, brown, granu- 

 lated at the middle and upper part, covered with an 

 epidenuis planted with rows of bristles, base smooth, 

 shilling, yellowish, with a broad brown band beneath 



the jx-riphery ; spire dcpressly conoid ; whorls six, 

 convex ; aperture subrotundately lunar ; lip simple, 

 coluinellar edge thickened. 

 SowEUBV, Pro. Zool. Soc. 1S41, p. ih. 

 Uah. Island of Luzon, Philippines ; Cuming. 



This species agrees with the preceding in the shiny 

 porcelain character of the shell, below the portion that is 

 covered with an epidermis ; but the epidermis is of quite 

 another character, being thick-set with a profusion of deli- 

 cate bristles. 



