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H. SUBVARIEGATA v. Maltzan. PI. 40, figs. 70, 71. 



Shell small, narrowly but deeply umbilicated, depressed, solid, 

 distinctly but irregularly striated, rather shining; white, very 

 prettily marked with intense interrupted chestnut-brown bands, of 

 which the upper lies at the periphery and follows the suture up the 

 spire. The spire is depressed-convex, with minute, obtuse, horny- 

 brown apex. The five whorls are well-rounded from the beginning, 

 and increase slowly and regularly ; they are separated by a simple 

 linear little-impressed suture; the last whorl is scarcely widened, 

 hardly noticeably descending in front, the base somewhat flattened 

 and passing perpendicularly into the almost cylindrical umbilicus. 

 The aperture is oblique, rounded-ovate, strongly lunate, the bands 

 showing in the throat ; the peristome is simple, acute, having a low but 

 broad white lip within ; the margins converge but little and have 

 no connecting callus. The columella margin is hardly dilated at the 

 insertion. (Kob.~) 



Alt. 5, greater diam. 8, lesser 8 mill. 



Tuzla, Bay of Suda, Crete. 



H. (Candidula) subvariegata v. MALTZAN, Nachr. D. M. Ges. 

 1883, p. 105. KOBELT, Rossm. Icon. n. f. iv, p. 27, f. 551. 



H. HELLENICA Blanc & Westerlund. PL 34, figs. 60, 61. 



Shell narrowly but deeply umbilicate, rudely ribbed-striate, the 

 base smoother ; depressed-turbinate or convex-depressed, rather 

 solid, opaque ; whitish, variously adorned with brown lines and 

 bands, streaked and variegated above. The spire convex or 

 depressed-conical, with small, smooth, horn colored, slightly obtuse 

 apex. The six whorls are convex from the beginning and increase 

 rather fast but regularly ; they are separated by a linear impressed 

 suture; the last is somewhat widened, indistinctly angulate, the 

 angle generally disappearing toward the mouth ; base regularly con- 

 vex ; not deflected in -front. The aperture is but little oblique, 

 nearly circular, slightly lunate ; peristome straight, acute ; young 

 examples have a weak whitish lip, but adults having a strong 

 yellowish-red lip ; the margin in front of the lip also yellowish-red 

 in color ; the margins converge ; the columellar margin is somewhat 

 reflected and slightly dilated at the insertion. (Kob.~) 



Alt. 6, greater diam. 9, lesser 8 mill. 



Chalcis, Euboea, Greece. 



