HELIX.— Plate LXXII. 



Walton's Helix. Shell imperforated, depressed, pear- 

 shaped, solid, lon^tudinally and concentrically stri- 

 ated, brown, red-banded, ornamented with yellowish 

 triangular blotches of hydrophanous epidermis ; spire 

 very small, obtuse ; wliorls three to four, increasing 

 very rapidly, last whorl \cntricose, depressed, marked 

 with a few concentric grooves; aperture very 

 obli(|ue, lunar-oval, shininfr rose within ; lip broadly 

 exi)anded, reflected, black, margins joined by a black 

 callosity which is diffused inwardly, columcllar margin 

 slanting, rather drawn out, very much dilated and 

 excavated above. 

 Reeve, Pro. Zool. Soc. 1842, p. 19 ; Conch. Syst. vol. ii. 



pi. 166. f. 23. 

 Hab. Ceylon. 



This fine species may be readily distinguished by its 

 depressly oblique growth, coppery-rose hue covered with 

 a profusely speckled hydroplianous epidermis, and shining 

 jet-black lip. The egg of this species is a))out the same 

 size as, and very similar to, that of a sparrow. 



Species 373. (Fig. a, b, Mus. Cuming.) 

 Helix Juliana. Hel. testa vix umbilicata, depretao-tur- 



binatd, apice oblusd, ad tuluram plicaio-ttriatd, fulvet- 

 cetile aul rosea ; anfract'diws quinque, convexiusculu, 

 ultimo infra rosea, ad suturam lined castaiied cinclo, 

 ad peripheriam el circa umbilieum fascia castaned or- 

 nato, basiplaiiiusculo, medio impresso ; aperturd oblique 

 Ivnari ; perintomalf simptici, obtuse, marginr basalt 

 subincrassato. 



Julia's Helix. Shell slightly umbilicated, depressly 

 turbinated, obtuse at the apex, plicately striated at 

 the suture, fulvous or rose ; whorls five, rather con- 

 vex, the last rose beneath, encircled with a chestnut 

 line at the suture, ornamented at the periphery and 

 around the umbilicus with a chestnut -black band, 

 base rather tlal, impressed in the middle; aperture 

 obliquely lunar; lip simple, obtuse, basal margin 

 rather thickened. 



Nanina Juliana, Gray, Pro. Zool. Soc. 1834, p. 58. 

 Helix rosacea, Sowerby. 

 Helix Dufourii and citrinoides, Grateloup. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



For the very richly coloured and beautiful specimen 

 here figiu-ed of this species, I am indebted to Sir J. Emer- 

 son Tennent, who collected it at Suffragam, Ceylon. 



