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white, reflexed, dilated over the umbilicus, which is usually reduced 

 to a narrow fissure or almost wholly covered. Diam. 32, alt. 33 mill. 



Italy. 



The synonymy includes H. decussata Parr., melissophaga Costa, 

 varians Ziegler. 4 



Var. GUSSONEANA Shuttleworth. 



Nearly covered perforate, conico-globose, solid, distinctly, minute- 

 ly reticulate, brownish white, ornamented with five brown bands ; 

 spire elevated, conoidal ; whorls 5, convex, the last scarcely descend- 

 ing; columella arcuate; aperture rounded-lunar, shining within; 

 peristome subsimple, the right margin a trifle expanded, colurnellar 

 dilated, reflexed, white or flesh colored. Diam. 34, alt. 30 mill. 



(Pfeiffer.) Around Naples. 



I am unable to distinguish this variety from the typical form. 



Var. CALABRICA Kobelt. PL 67, fig. 1. 



Shell marked with five narrow rufous bands; columella and 

 parietal wall rufous; umbilicus closed; spiral lines subobsolete. 



Diam. 34, alt. 32 mill. 



Calabria. 

 Var. POMATELLA Tiberi. PI. 56, figs. 2, 3. 



Small, very distinctly four banded. Southern Italy. 



Var. PR^TUTIA Tiberi. 



S ibiim itj, depressed globose, strongly striate, solid, whitish with 

 three broad pale fulvous bands. Diam. 39, alt. 37 mill. 



Near Naples. 



Var. CAMPANA Tiberi. PI. 56, fig. 1. 



Imperforate, elevated globose, glabrous, . obsoletely striate, six- 

 banded. Diam. 26, alt. 25 mill. 



Near Naples. 



Var. DKLPRETIANA Paulucci. 



Elevated, conic, white, with five very distinctly defined deep brown 

 bands: surface rather smooth ; umbilicus almost closed. 



Diam. 25, alt. 28 mill. 



Abruzzi. 



Var. TRUENTINA Mascarini. Unfigured. 



An intermediate form between ligata, lucorum and pomatia, so 

 equally related to all that Kobelt declares it to be a mere matter of 

 taste to which of these species it be referred. 



Ascoli. 



