14 HELIX-PAPUINA. 



chocolate-brown, the margins approximate, slightly thickened and 

 expanded, the right flexuous above. 



Alt. 22, greater diam. 22, lesser, 19 mill. (Angas.} 



Ysabel Island, Solomon Group. 



Geotrochus coxianus ANGAS, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 889, t. 43, f. 7, 8. 

 H. coxiana PFR., Mon. vii, p. 313. 



H. FUCATA Pfeiffer. PI. 16, figs. 9, 10. 



Shell imperforate, globosely-conical, rather solid, shining, porcel- 

 laneous, under the lens-obliquely striated, also but more faintly 

 spirally and decussatedly striated ; white with three black spiral 

 bands, and another faint reddish one above each of the central 

 bands ; spire sharply conical, acute and reddish at the apex, suture 

 smooth ; whorls 5, nearly flat, last convex slightly descending, base 

 rather flat, with a black umbilical mark ; aperture diagonal, 

 Innately oval ; peristome thin, right margin rather straight, anteriorly 

 produced and curved, left expanded and reflected, columellar margin 

 tinged with pink. ( Cox.} 



Alt. 14J, greater diam. 17, lesser 15 mill. 



Wide Bay and Marysborough, Queensland, Australia. 



H.fucata PFR., Zeitschr. f. Mai. 1853, p. 56; P. Z. S. 1853, p. 

 59 ; Mon. Hel. Viv. iii, p. 641. Rv. f. 1029. Cox, Monog. p. 67, 

 t. 2, f. 8. 



H. CONSCENDENS Cox. PI. 8, figs. 50, 51. 



Shell imperforate, globosely conical, very thin, pellucid, some- 

 what glassy, rather shining, under the lens obsoletely obliquely stri- 

 ated ; whitish, with one band more or less conspicuously colored ; 

 spire conical, colored at the tip ; whorls 6, slightly convex, last very 

 large, slightly deflected, with an obsolete keel ; aperture diagonal, 

 lunately ovate ; peristome thin, outer margin somewhat sinuated, 

 columella above slightly reflected. 



Diam. greatest 0'60, least 0'50, height 0'55 of an inch. (Cox.} 



Lismore, Upper Richmond River, Australia. 



H. conscendens Cox, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 374; Mon. Austr. L. Sh. 

 p. 67, t. 2, f. 6. 



(2.) GROUP OF H. META. 



Narrowly obliquely perforated; elevated conical, the periphery 

 rounded or car mated ; last whorl not descending in front. Surface 

 smooth, lightly obliquely striatulate. Distribution, Solomon Is. 



