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Var. FUSCOLABIATA Rossm. PL 64, figs. 32-34. 



Somewhat larger than the type, sometimes bandless, usually with 

 the lower band absent, the others so interrupted that the shell ap- 

 pears above to be radiately streaked with white and brown ; aperture 

 and peristome clear brown. Sorrento; Capri; Pcestum. 



Var. POSIDONIENSIS Tiberi. PI. 60, figs. 66, 67. 



Large, decidedly widened, especially the last whorl ; depressed 

 and sharply sculptured. Pcestum. 



Var. SICULA Benoit. 



Sharply costulate above; aperture more rounded, fusco-labiate. 



Sicily. 



Var. APULA Blanc. PL 64, figs. 28, 29. 



Sculpture more distinct ; aperture more rounded, less oblique. 



Taranto. 

 Var. POLITA Paulucci. 



This pretty variety is distinguished by its relatively almost smooth 

 j<liell, as well as by the row of little spots scattered along the suture, 

 a character which is completely absent in all the typical individuals. 

 I have received this variety from Engineer Molteni, of Foligno 

 (Umbria), mingled with a number of H. gtrigata. It appears quite 

 common. (Paulucci.') 



H. CAKSOLIANA Ferussac. PL 65, figs. 42-44. 



Almost closed perforate, globose sub-depressed, thick, opaque 

 white, with three narrow interrupted chestnut bands, spire slightly 

 prominent, com posed of ") whorls, flattened and narrow, the last wide, 

 very convex, with a very narrow umbilical perforation ; surface ir- 

 tvmilarly striate, the strise more prominent at the suture, becoming 

 obsolescent below ; aperture small, very oblique, oval, a little wider 

 than high ; peristome thickened within, narrowly reflexed, columel- 

 lar margin oblique, dilated at the insertion. (Fer. et Desk.) 



Diam. 184, alt. 8-] mill. 



It is H. carseolana Auct. and H. marrucina Tib., (pi. 66, figs. 84- 

 160 



Central Italy. 



Mine. Paulucci (Materiaux, etc., p. 34) says: "The type of this 

 ^pccies, as it is represented in the work of Ferussac corresponds exact- 

 ly with Mt. Maiella specimens which I have received from Dr. Tiberi 

 under the name of H. marrucina (PL 66, figs. 84-86). It is a shell 

 with the umbilicus wholly closed, with pale bands, so interrupted as 



