HELTCARION. 175 



II. Species of Asia and the East Indies. 



H. AUSTENIANUS, Nevill. PI. 40, figs. 7, 8, 9. 



Semiglobose, heliciform, thin, glossy, brownish yellow; whorls 

 5, with deep suture, last whorl a little slopingly depressed above; 

 aperture rounded-lunate, a little oblique, columellar lip slightly 

 reflected above over the umbilical region. 



Diam. 15'5, alt. T5 mill. 



Sonamarg, Kashmir. 



H. STOLICZKANUS, Nevill. PL 40, figs. 10-12. 



Depressed, thin, translucent, yellowish horn-color; whorls 5, 

 rather narrow, convex, striated, with deep suture. 



Diam. 21, alt. 10 mill. 



Kashmir. 



Confounded by Reeve, Hanley , etc., with H. monticola, Benson. 

 Is possibly a small variety of H. cassida, with less exserted whorls 

 and rather differently colored. 



H. SOGDIANUS, Martens. PI. 40, figs. 13-15. 



Very narrowly perforate, depressed, lightly plicatulate, with 

 obscure impressed spiral lines, shining, amber-colored, suture 

 margined ; whorls 4j to 5 ; columellar margin a little reflexed 



above. Diam. 22, alt. 11 mill. 



Samarkand. 

 H. FLEMINGI, Pfr. PL 40, figs. 16-18. 



Globosely depressed, thin, above plicately striate, with obscure 

 spiral impressed lines, rather dull, olivaceous-fulvous, suture nar- 

 rowly white-margined ; whorls 4^, the last large, very slightly 

 compressed around the periphery, base smoother and more 

 shining ; aperture pearly, the columellar lip a little reflected 



above. Diam. 33, alt. 18 mill. 



India. 

 H. CASSIDA, Hutton. PL 40, figs. 19, 20. 



Depressed, thin, striulate, barely shining, subdiaphanous, light 

 greenish yellow, spire very depressed conoidal, suture submargi- 

 nate ; whorls scarcely 5 , rapidly enlarging, the last widely rounded , 

 base wide, impressed in the middle; aperture pearly, columellar 

 lip subcallous above. Diam. 26, alt. 12 mill. 



Simla, Western Himalayas. 



See remarks under H. Stoliczkanus, above. 



