HELIX-EULOTA. 21 5 



licus very broad and open, one-fourth the diameter of the shell. Sur- 

 face finely striated, streaked with white and horny-brown above and 

 below, with a brown zone below the carina. 

 Alt. 6, diam. 18-19 mill. 



Batung (Patong^) Mts., Prov. Hubei, China. 



H.filippina HDE., Moll. Terr. Fl. Bleu, p. 23, t. 20, f. 19. 



Decidedly flatter above, and more acutely keeled than H. christi- 

 nce. 



H. DEJEANA Hende. PI. 49, figs. 36, 37, 38. 



Shell umbilicated, sinistral, buff-greenish, covered with confused 

 spiral striae ; spire convex, but much depressed. Whorls 4, 

 regularly increasing, separated by a narrow, little impressed 

 suture, the last whorl conspicuously carinated, the carina channelled 

 above ; aperture oblique, sinuous, a little descending ; umbilicus 

 ample, perspective. 



Alt. 5J, greater diam. 10, lesser 9 mill. (H.) 



Ta-tsien-lu, on the Ya-hmg River, Province of Sytshuan, China. 



H. dejeana HDE., 1. c. p. 21, t. 20, f. 17. 



The peristome may not be fully formed in the specimens described 

 and figured. 



HELIX ANCEYI (v. Moll.) Ancey, Le Naturaliste 1889, p. 205, 

 China. A setose, sinistral, umbilicated species, comparable accord- 

 ing to Ancey to submissa Dh. and dejeaniana Heude. Unfigured. 



Section EULOTA Hartm. 



=Eulota HARTM. plus Dorcasia (oriental species) auct, and 

 Acusta ALB. c/. v. MLLDFF. Nachr.-Bl. d. m. Ges. 1892, p. 87-90. 



This group attains a great development in East Asia, being 

 numerously represented from Siberia to the East Indies, the limits 

 of its southward extension being still unknown. It is excessively 

 difficult to draw the line between the shells of Eulota and those of 

 the sections of Chloritis which the writer has called Trichochloritis 

 and Austrochloritis ; but no such difficulty exists when the soft 

 parts give their testimony; for Chloritis differs profoundly from 

 Eulota in the genital organs. In a previous volume, the presence 

 of hairs or hair-scars arranged in regular series upon the apical 

 whorls, has been taken as diagnostic of Chloritis, whilst the irregular- 



