HELIX. 211 



H. DESPECTA, Gray. PL 48, fig. 86. 



Narrowly umbilicated, thin, rugosely striate, yellowish brown; 

 spire a little elate, with deep suture; whorls 5, convex, the last 

 inflated; lip simple, a little thickened within. Diam. 22 mill. 



? Loo Choo Is. 

 H. CRASSULA, Phil. PI. 48, figs. 90-92. 



Narrowly umbilicated, scarcely striulate, epidermis yellowish, 

 with short hairs in quincunx order, suture deep ; whorls 5, the last 

 inflated below and slightly ungulate round the umbilicus, distinctly 

 descending in front ; lip rosy Avhite, thickened, reflected. 



Diam. 16'6-18 mill. 



Java, Sumatra. 



H. Storiana, Mousson. is a synonym. 



H. CRYPTOPILA, Mousson. PL 48, figs. 87-89. 



Narrowly umbilicated, somewhat solid", obliquely striate and 

 punctate, with a deciduous, very short pile, subdiaphanous, greyish 

 corneous, suture linear; whorls 4i, the last carinate, shortly des- 

 cending in front, inflated below and subangulated around the 

 umbilicus; aperture diagonal, peristome simple, upper margin shortly 

 expanded, basal narrowly reflected. Diam. 18 mill. 



Ins. Rakata. 

 Var. HELICINOIDES, Mouss. 



Shell smaller, with a light peripheral band. Diam. 12*7 mill. 



Java. 

 H. ZOROASTER, Theobald. PL 48, fig. 93. ' 



Umbilicated, minutely striate, corneous, with usually a peripheral 

 chestnut band, whorls 5 ; last obtusely angulate on the periphery ; 

 peristome thin, a little reflected. Diam. 15 mill. 



Between Ava. and Prome. 



H. SCALPTURITA, Benson. PL 48, fig. 94. 



Umbilicus narrow, striulate, closely spirally striate, a little shining, 

 whitish, light brown on the apex and towards the aperture, often 

 with a chestnut band ; whorls 5, the last rounded, a little descending 

 in front; peristome thin, somewhat expanded. Diam. 22 mill. 



Ava. 

 H. EVERETTI, H. Adams. PL 49, fig. 95. 



Umbilicated, lightly plicate-striate above, inconspicuously gran- 

 ulated, light fulvous, under a thin epidermis of the same color, with 

 a peripheral chestnut band; whorls 4, convex, the base obtusely 



