248 HELIX. 



H. PACHYA Bourguignat 1860. PL 67, fig. 98. 



Imperforate, globose, thick, ponderous, whitish or flesh- colored, 

 zoned with chestnut, the zones frequently confluent above and below 

 the periphery ; obliquely striate, whorls of spire decussated conspic- 

 uously by spiral lines ; spire conic, apex smooth, obtuse ; whorls 5, 

 somewhat convex, rapidly increasing, the last ventricose, obliquely 

 plicate-striate, thick, very slightly descending anteriorly, slightly 

 indented at the axis ; aperture rotund-lunate, livid whitish or brown- 

 ish, sometimes showing the bands within ; peristome obtuse, the ends 

 not converging, much thickened, not reflexed ; columellar margin 

 reflexed and appressed over the umbilicus ; parietal wall with a thick 

 callus. Diam. 33, alt. 37 ; diam. 32, alt. 35 miH. 



Syria; Palestine. 



Distinguished typically by the heavy, thick shell, coarsely plicate 

 body-whorl, and decussate spire. 



Var. TEXTA Mousspn. PL 56, figs. 11, 12. 

 Larger than the type, and rather thinner. 

 Diam. 46, alt. 45 mill : diam. 44, alt. 50 mill. 



Palestine. 



H. PATHETICA (Parreyss) Albers, 1860. PL 63, figs. 49, 50. 



Nearly imperforate, depressed globose, thin, translucent, distinctly 

 striate, white or yellowish-white, with five brown (according to Al- 

 bers, citron yellow) bands, of which the lower are the more conspic- 

 uous ; spire depressed, with blunt, rather large apex ; whorls 4, sep- 

 arated by an impressed, rather irregular suture ; body-whorl large, 

 transversely widened, somewhat inflated, rapidly and rather strongly 

 deflected anteriorly ; aperture oblique, ovate, shining and white 

 within, and showing the bands; peristome simple, sharp, straight, 

 labiate with white within ; columella rather straight, scarcely ex- 

 panded, reflected and appressed. Diam. 28, alt. 24 mill. (Kobeti). 



A.iiti Minor. 



Differs from H. obtusalis in the white peristome. 



The form above described and figured differs from the species as 

 defined by Albers in being distinctly, instead of " subtillssime " stri- 

 ate, and in its greater altitude. The measurements given by Albers* 

 are : diam. 29, alt. 18 mill. 



H. SOCIA Kossmaessler. 1853. Unfigured. 



Subumbilicate, depressed-globose, rather thin, obliquely striate, 

 pale fulvous, ornamented with broad interrupted deep chestnut bands; 



