HELIX-METAFRUTICICOLA. 191 



Fruticicola strigelloides POLL., Bull. Mus. Zool. Ecc. Torino, ii, 

 1887 ; Bull. Soc. Mai. Ital., 1888, xiii, p. 77, t. 2, f. 25-27. 



Section METAFRUTICICOLA v. Ihering. 



Pseudocampylcea HESSE, Jahrb. D. M. Ges. 1884, p. 237 ; TRYON, 

 Manual of Conch. (2) iv, p. 114 (part), and of other authors. Not 

 of Pfeiffer, Mai. Bl. xxiv, p. 8, 1887. Cressa WESTERLUND, Fauna 

 Palaarct. Keg. Binuen-Conch., Helix, p. 4, 101, 1889. Not Cressa 

 Bock, 1871 (Amphipoda'). Metafruticicola IHER., Zeitschr. f. Wis- 

 sensch. Zool. liv, p. 452 (Oct. 4, 1892). 



This section consists of snails between Fruticicola and Campylcea 

 in shell characters, but having the genital system free from acces- 

 sory organs, probably by degeneration. The species are confined to 

 Crete and the adjacent islands. 



H. LECTA Ferussac (Vol. IV, p. 116) PL 34, figs. 62, 63, 64. The 

 figure given in Vol. IV represents sublecta Maltzan. 



H. DICTAEA Martens. PL 25, figs. 16, 17, 18, 19. 



Shell narrowly umbilicated, depressed globose, radiately costulate- 

 striate, beset with short, erect rigid hairs ; brown-tawny, unicolored. 

 Spire little projecting ; whorls hardly 5, slightly convex, the suture 

 rather deep; last whorl inflated, rounded, descending at the aper- 

 ture, paler. Aperture very oblique, broad-lunate, the peristome 

 very lightly expanded, white-lipped within, the margins approxi- 

 mating, upper lightly, basal distinctly arcuate, columellar margin 

 strongly dilated, covering a small part of the umbilicus. 



Alt. 10, diam 16 mill. (Mis'). 



Southern side of the Lasithi Mts., near Viano, Crete. 



Helix (Pseudocampylcea') dictaea MTS. Archiv fiir Naturg., 1889, 

 p. 186, t. 3, f. 7. 



Similar in general, especially color and hirsuteness, to H. pellita, 

 but distinguished from it by the complete want of a band, more 

 depressed spire, and wider mouth. 



H. TESTACEA Martens. PL 46, figs. 55, 56, 57. 



Shell perforate, globose, rather solid, subobliquely closely wrinkle- 

 striate, tawny, paler at suture and periphery ; above with a distinct, 

 below a vanishing, brown band. Whorls 5J, slightly convex, the 

 last rounded, suddenly and deeply falling in front. Aperture very 

 oblique, subcircular ; peristome narrowly expanded, thin, diaphan- 





