HELIX. 11 



Var. VORTEX, Westerl. 



Globosely convex, densely costulate ; whorls 5, slowly increasing, 

 convex, the last scarcely larger; aperture rounded lunar. 



Diam. 5-5'5 mill. 



Southern France. 

 Var. ALBOCINCTELLA, Colb. 



Shell brownish, the fasciations confluent, with a median white 

 line. 



Belgium. 

 Var. NAMURCENSIS, Colb. 



Shell whitish with a band of chestnut dots on the periphery, ap- 

 pearing again above the suture, and two additional spiral series, 

 very faint, on the base. 



Belgium. 

 Var. LUNULATA, Kryn. 



Striolate, angulated above, white, sometimes with chestnut bands 

 and lines, spire a little more elevated, umbilicus narrower ; whorls 

 6, rounded ; peristome patulous, lipped within. 



Odessa. 

 Var. MELL^E, Pini. 



Small, somewhat depressed, more rugose, with wide bands above 

 or below. 



H. RUGOSIUSCULA, Mich. PI. 2, figs. 76, 77. 



Moderately umbilicated, closely, elegantly costulate-striate, grey- 

 ish, apex corneous ; whorls 5, a little flattened above, the last 

 scarcely angulated, convex below ; peristome acute, strongly lipped 

 within. Diam. 6 mill. 



Tar agon, Central Pyrenees. 



H. PALADILHI, Bourg. PL 2, figs. 78-80. 



Rather narrowly umbilicated, somewhat closely unequally costu- 

 late, whitish, with a single interrupted brown band above the peri- 

 phery, apex light corneous ; whorls 5, slightly convex, slowly in- 

 creasing, the last scarcely descending in front, barely angulated, 

 convex below ; peristome acute, scarcely labiate within. 



Diam. 8 mill. 



Montpellier, France. 

 H. CYPARISSIAS, Parr. PL 1, fig. 49. 



Moderately umbilicated, closely costulate-striate, white, punctate 

 or irregularly maculated and subfasciate with chestnut, apex cor- 



