52 HELIX. 



H. IIIEROSOLYMITANA, Bourg. PI. 9, fig. 95. 



Narrowly, scarcely perviously umbilicated, rather thin, slightly 

 plicate-striate, scarcely shining., subdiaphanous, fuscous ; whorls 

 4, a little convex, the last not descending. Diain. 2'66 mill. 



Jerusalem. 

 H. BASCAUDA, Benson. PI. 7, figs. 65, 66. 



Narrowly, profoundly umbilicated, with remote oblique ele- 

 vated ribs, flexuous below ; brownish corneous, suture impressed ; 

 whorls 6, a little convex, the last not descending, with a thread- 

 like carina at the periphery, convex below, subangulated around 

 the umbilicus. Diam. 4*5 mill. Khasia Mts., India. 



H. polypleuris, Blanford (fig. 66), from Arakan, is made a 

 synonym by Nevill. 



H. ABBADIANA, Bourg. PL 9, figs. 99-1. 



Openly, perviously umbilicated, irregularly densely plicate- 

 striate, a little shining, reddish brown; whorls 4, inflated, with 

 deep suture, the last convex above and below, scarcely angulated 

 at the periphery, not deflected in front ; aperture subcircular. 



Diam. 2 mill. Egypt, Abyssinia. 



H. cryophila, Morelet (non Martens), and H. Brocchii, 

 Jickeli, are S3monyms. 



H. BRUCEI, Jickeli. PL 9, figs. 2-4. 



Narrowly umbilicated, opaque, obliquely costulate, grayish 

 brown, ribs of the last whorl larger, submembranaceous, the 

 interstices lightly longitudinally striate, base with scarcely con- 

 spicuous impressed lines ; whorls scarcely 3, subinflated, suture 

 deep, the last not deflected, convex below. Diam. 1-6 mill. 



Abyssinia. 

 H. AMBLYGONA, Reinhardt. PL 9, figs. 96-98. 



Umbilicated, depressed turbinate, reddish brown, striated, the 

 younger shell membranously lamellate ; whorls 4, the last 

 slightly deflected, periphery obtusely angulated. Diam. 2'5 mill. 



Japan. 



Unfigured and Spurious Species. 



H. HYPOCRITA, Dohrn. Cape Verd Is. 



H. ARENICOLA, Tate. Australia. 



H. CALPIS, Benson. Near Darjiling, Ind. 



Blanford writes: "This species was described from specimens 



