168 HELIX. 



Subsection VII, NUMMULINA, Kobelt. 1871. 



Lenticular, with carinate periphery, costulate-striate. H. NUMMUS, 

 Ehrenb. 



Syria, Caucasus. 



Subsection VIII, EULOTA, Hartmann. 1842. 

 Inflated, subglobose. H. FRUTICUM, Mull. 



Europe 

 The typical group of Fruticicola. 



Theba, Risso. (in part) is a synonym. 



Subsection IX. DORCASIA, Gray, 1845. 



Moderately umbilicated, globosely turbinate, or depressed globose, 

 rugosely striate; whorls 4-5, the last large, inflated, more or less 

 depressed in front ; aperture lunately ovate, the peristome thickened, 

 subreflected or expanded, columellar margin dilated, reflected. 

 H. GLOBULUS, Miill. 



Cape of Good Hope, Southern Asia etc. 



Galaxias, Beck, may be included : it has priority, but is preoc- 

 cupied in fishes. 



Subsection X, SATSUMA, A. Ad. 1868. 



Conoidal, base more or less flattened, basal portion of periphery 

 nearly straight. H. JAPONICA, Pfr. 



Japan, China. 



Fruticotrochus, Kobelt is a synonym. 



Subsection XI, HISPIDELLA, Lowe. 1852. 

 Surface hispid. H. NUBIGENA, Lowe. 



Canary Is. 

 Subsection XII, CILIELLA, Mousson, 1872. 



Corneous, somewhat lenticular, granular piliferous, filamentously 

 carinate. H. LEPROSA, Shuttl. 



Canary Is. 

 Section II, XEROPHILA, Held. 1837. 



Umbilicated, or rimately perforate, turbinately or globosely 

 depressed, calcareous, usually banded, the apex corneous; whorls 5-6, 

 slowly increasing ; aperture lunately rounded or subcircular, peristome 

 acute, labiate within. 



Mostly European. 

 Subsection I, EUPARYPHA, Hartmann. 1840. 



Perforate, depressed globose, usually banded; whorls 5, the last 



