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Alexia Botteriana, Pfr. Syn. Auric, n. 153 ; Mon. Auric, p. 147. 



H. and A. Adams, Gen. rec. Moll. ii. p. 241. 

 Ellobium Botterianuin, "PTiiL," H.fyA. Adams, Gen. ii. p. 237? 



JIab. Island of Lesina, Dalmatia. 



§ 2. Labruin callous, without teeth or with a single tooth. 



3; Alexia Paybatjdeatji. 



Shell ovate-turrited, rather solid, nearly smooth, silk-shining, 

 purplish-black; spire turrited conic, with the apex pointed; 

 suture rather deep, pale ; whorls nine, moderately convex, the 

 last about as long as the spire, provided usually with a sharp 

 varix, somewhat attenuated at base ; aperture scarcely oblique, 

 sinuately ovate; parietal teeth two, the upper minute, nodi- 

 form, the other compressed, entering horizontally ; columellar 

 plait oblique, rather truncate ; peristome callous, pale, with the 

 right margin rather sinuate above, then reflexed, furnished 

 within with a callus, which is parallel to the margin ; columel- 

 lar margin slightly dilated, adnate. Length 11, breadth 5 mill. 



Auricula myosotis, Payr. Cat. p. 104. 



Auricula Payxaudeaui, Shuttlew. in litt. 



Alexia Payraudeaui, Pfr. Syn. Auric, n. 154 ; Mon. Auric, p. 147. 



H. and A. Adams, Gen. rec. Moll. ii. p. 241. 

 Hab. Corsica ; also near Nizza and Trieste. 



4. Alexia Biasolettiana. 



Shell subrimate, fusiformly ovate, rather solid, faintly striated, 

 shining, chestnut-coloured or reddish hom-coloured ; spire in- 

 ftatedly conic, with the apex acutely mucronate ; suture deep, 

 simple ; whorls seven, moderately convex, the last ventricose, 

 longer than the spire, attenuated in front ; aperture nearly per- 

 pendicular, narrowly semiovate ; parietal teeth two, the upper 

 deep, punctiform, the other very much compressed, transverse ; 

 columellar plait middle-sized, oblique, slightly produced out- 

 wards ; peristome sharp, scarcely expanded ; right margin bear- 

 ing within one or two indistinct tubercles ; columellar margin 

 scarcely dilated, rather adnate. Length 9|, breadth 4| mill. 



Auricula Venetiensis, M'uhlf. in Villa Disp. Si/st. p. 30 ? 

 Auricula Veneta, Martens, Ital. ii. p. 433. 

 Auricula Biasolettiana, Kiist. Auric, p. 5(5. t. 8. f. 18-20. 

 Auricula myosotis, I)e Botta et Mart. Moll. Ven. p. 75. 

 Alexia Biasolettiana, II. and A. Adams in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854, 

 p. 33. n. 7 ; Gen. rev. Moll. ii. p. 241. 



