242 Mr. E. A. Smith on a new Species o/" Helix. 



sea of solitude." Possibly his statement is capable of expla- 

 nation. He did not notice the ' Valorous ' Expedition, which 

 yielded no inconsiderable results by way of addition to the 

 marine fauna of the arctic seas, and to which the President of 

 the Royal Society had done justice in his annual address 

 eighteen months previously. 



XXXII. — Description of a new Species o/" Helix. 

 By Edgar A. Smith, Zoological Department, British Museum. 



Helix {Merope?) Barnaclei. 



Testa imperforata, conoideo-globosa, levis, tenuiuseula, nitidissima, 

 fulva, nigro-fusco bifasciata ; spira conoidea, vix convexa, apice 

 obtusiusculo ; anfractus 4j, convexiusculi, sutura distincta alba 

 sejimcti, lineis incrementi arcuatis sculpti, ultimus subventricosus 

 ad aperturam breviter deflexus, ad peripberiam albus obsolete 

 carinatus, infra in medio impressus ; apertura obliqua, irre- 

 gulariter lunato-triangularis ; peristoma leviter incrassatum, 

 reflexum, albidurq., extus castaueo marginatum, margine colu- 

 mellari recto, calloso albo. 



Diam, max. 24 millim., min. 21 ; alt. 15. 



Testa junior ad peripberiam anfr. idtimi acute carinata et fascia 

 lata alba, nigro marginata, cincta, anguste perforata. 



Shell imperforate in the adult state (narrowly umbilicated 

 when immature and acutely angled at the periphery), conoidally 

 globose, with a very shining surface, of a rich fulvous or deep 

 fawn- colour ; the upper whorls become gradually paler than 

 the last, and towards the apex are semitransparent horn- 

 colour and encircled by a single narrow dark brown line just 

 above the suture, which is white ; this line becomes much 

 broader upon the body-whorl, which has a second similar band 

 beneath the more or less white periphery ; this is obsoletely 

 keeled or angulated near the upper end of the lip, the keel 

 vanishing altogether on the last half of the whorl ; whorls 4^, 

 a little convex, having no other sculpture than the arcuate 

 lines of growth (except in young shells, where they are obso- 

 letely spirally striated), the last somewhat ventricose, very 

 shortly deflexed at the aperture ; beneath paler or horn-colour 

 and a little concave in the middle or umbilical region ; the 

 aperture is very oblique, very irregularly triangular-lunate, 

 white within, banded with black and brown (the latter not 

 visible exteriorly) ; lip not much thickened on the outer and 



