166 PHASIANELLA. 



Var. ZEBRA Reeve, 1862. PL 38, fig. 43. 



" Obliquely, longitudinally, conspicuously, broadly banded with 

 chestnut red and yellow, lineated with flesh-color." 



Swan River, Australia. 



Var. RETICULATA, Reeve 1862. PL 38, fig. 42. 



" Closely undulately painted throughout with brown lines and 

 with flesh-colored flames beneath the sutures." Shorter than the 

 type. 



Swan River and St. Vincent's Gulf, Australia. 



P. ^THIOPICA Phil., 1853. PL 38, figs. 53, 54 ; PL 39, fig. 94. 



Pointed-ovate, thick, solid ; whorls 5-6, moderately convex, slop- 

 ing below the sutures ; aperture about half the length of shell, ob- 

 lique, ovate ; columella with heavy white or rosy callus, thickened 

 and subdentate near posterior angle of aperture ; color, light brown 

 or rose, with revolving series of arrow-shaped or irregular flecks of 

 lighter shade, or with longitudinal oblique light stripes extending 

 downward to middle of body whorl, apex and base stained with rose 

 color. Alt. 25-30 mill. Seychelles (Reeve) ; Australia( f) ; 



E. coast of Africa ; Zanzibar (Philip]) i). 



I am inclined to believe that this is the Helix solida of Born, 

 (1780). The latter has been ignored by modern authors. On my 

 plate 39a, fig. 8, one of the original figures given by Born is copied. 

 Compare also P. unifascialis Kiener, which has somewhat the same 

 color pattern as P. solida, and may be the same. 



P. HISTRIO Reeve, 1862. PL 37, figs. 34, 35. 



"Shell conically turbinated, amber, flaked with white, spotted at 

 the sutures with deep crimson-rose ; spire rather exserted, whorls 

 rounded ; aperture small." Alt. 10 mill. 



Philirjpines ( ( 'am ///;/. ) 



" A very peculiarly marked species, the colors being of a delicate 

 transparent kind, edged with brilliant crimson-rose." 



Reeve's description and figure are above copied. 



P. COTURNIX (Koch) Philippi, 1853. PL 39a, fig. 17. 



This is a species of about 15 mill, alt., rather solid, very smooth 

 and shining ; aperture ovate, with rather heavy columella and inner- 

 lip ; the color consists of a whitish ground with yellow flames, which 

 behind are bordered with dark and brown, and in front are diffused 

 in the clear ground-color, which here and there shows undulating 



