182 HELIX-HAJ3RA. 



H. FORRESTIANA Angas. PI. 38, figs. 64, 65. 



Shell narrowly perforate, globosely trochiform, rather thin, 

 obliquely striated, very finely transversely granulated; from the 

 apex to the middle of the last whorl fulvous chestnut with an indica- 

 tion of a band of a lighter color between the periphery and the 

 suture of the last whorl, below the periphery pale yellowish brown ; 

 spire obtusely conical; whorls 5, slightly convex, the last rather in- 

 flated, descending in front, a little contracted behind the aperture ; 

 aperture very oblique, ovate, purplish brown within ; peri^tome not 

 thickened, widely expanded, the margins approximating, joined by a 

 thin callus ; the right margin slightly flexuous, brown ; the col- 

 umellar margin white, dilated and reflexed, nearly concealing the 

 perforation. (Angas.) 



Alt. 7, greater diam. 10, lesser 7 lines. 



Northwest Australia. 



H.forrestiana ANGAS, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 389, t. 45, f. 3, 3a. ' 



A species of uncertain position. Differs from most Australian 

 Helices in having the lip thin and broadly expanded. 



H. JANNELLEI LeGuillou. PI. 38, fig. 69. 



Shell narrowly and deeply umbilicated, globular, somewhat solid, 

 horny-yellow, rather glossy ; the light wrinkled lines of growth de- 

 cussated with irregular wrinkles, very closely set-together ; spire 

 short, obtuse ; suture irregularly crenulated ; whorls 5, convex, 

 rapidly increasing, last very large, inflated below ; aperture nearly 

 diagonal, irregularly roundly lunate ; margins slightly approach- 

 ing, and connected by a thin callus, white lipped, livid within ; per- 

 istome flesh colored, uniformly curved, expanded outwardly, more 

 so in front, and on the columellar margin, which is dilated above, 

 somewhat callous within and outwardly partially concealing the um- 

 bilicus. (CW.) 



Alt. 25, greater diam. 26, lesser 21 mill. 



Cape York, etc., northern Australia. 



H. Jannellei LEGUILL. Kev. Zool. 1842, p. 137. PFR., Monog. 

 Hel. Viv. i, p. 322 ; Novit. Conch, iv, p. 46, t. 118, f. 9, 10. MAR- 

 TENS Mai. Bl. xvi, p. 79, 1869. HEDLEY, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl. 

 1888, p. 59. H. pachystyloides Cox, P. Z.S. 1867, p. 725 ; Monogr. 

 Austr. L. Sh. p. 41, t. 5, f. 4. 



Like H. nigrilabris in sculpture and umbilicus, but smaller, dif- 

 ferently colored, etc. 



