HELIX. 147 



H. ALCARAZANA Guirao. PL 44, figs. 97-100. 



Imperforate, depressed subglobose, obliquely striate, obsoletely 

 decussated by spiral lines, yellowish white, with five brown bands, 

 the upper ones broken into irregular maculations ; spire shortly 

 conic, obtuse ; whorls 4-5, rapidly increasing, the last somewhat de- 

 scending anteriorly ; aperture oblique, rotund-lunar, peristome rose- 

 colored, labiate, margins slightly converging, reflexed and appressed 

 at the columella. 



Diam. 20 mill. 



Sierra de Segura, Province of Alcaraz, Spain. 



It is perhaps H. serpentina of Graells. 



H. GUIRAOANA Rossmassler. PL 44, figs. 94-96. 



Umbilicate, depressed, solid, striate, whitish, five fasciate, the 

 upper bands interrupted ; spire slightly convex, whorls 4-5, rapidly 

 increasing, the last subinflated, and abruptly descending anteriorly; 

 aperture rotund lunar; peristome rose colored, slightly reflexed at 

 the base. Diam. 23-28, alt. 10-12 mill. 



Var ANGTJSTATA Rossmassler. 



Smaller; umbilicus narrower. Granada. 



H. MARMORATA Ferussac. PL 44, figs. 1-3. 



Imperforate, globose depressed, white, five-fasciate, the upper 

 bands regularly interrupted with white, the lower less so; above 

 marbled with corneous; whorls 5, a little convex, the last wide 

 and descending anteriorly ; aperture widely rotund lunar, peristome 

 rose-colored, narrowly reflexed, appressed at base, extremities ap- 

 proaching. Diam. 20 mill. Gibraltar; Granada. 



If. exornata Parr is synonymous. 



Size and color-pattern rather variable, but always marbled above 

 with brown, white and corneous. 



Var VIOLACEA Rossmassler. PL fig. 



Small; last whorl strongly deflexed, deep colored, violet-lipped. 



Granada. 



It is H. balearica var. violacea and var. pulchella of Rossmassler's 

 Iconography, and H. partschii Bourg., according to Kobelt. 



H. SPLENDIDA Drapernaud. PL 44, figs. 4-9. 



Imperforat'e, globose depressed, white or corneous, with five deep 

 brown bands, the upper ones usually interrupted or confluent; in- 

 cremental striae very faint; whorls 4-4, slightly convex, rapidly 



