HELIX. 11 



Var. VORTEX, Westerl. 



Globosely convex, densely costulate ; whorls 5, slowly increasing, 

 convex, the last scarcely larger; aperture rounded lunar. 



Diam. 5-5'5 mill. 



Southern France. 

 Var. ALBOCINCTELLA, Colb. 



Shell brownish, the fasciations confluent, with a median white 

 line. 



Belgium. 

 Var. NAMURCENSIS, Colb. 



Shell whitish with a band of chestnut dots on the periphery, ap- 

 pearing again above the suture, and two additional spiral series, 

 very faint, on the base. 



Belgium. 

 Var. LUNULATA, Kryn. 



Striolate, angulated above, white, sometimes with chestnut bands 

 and lines, spire a little more elevated, umbilicus narrower ; whorls 

 6, rounded ; peristome patulous, lipped within. 



Odessa. 

 Var. MELLJE, Pini. 



Small, somewhat depressed, more rugose, with wide bands above 

 or below. 



H. RUGOSIUSCULA, Mich. PL 2, figs. 76, 77. 



Moderately umbilicated, closely, elegantly costulate-striate, grey- 

 ish, apex corneous ; whorls 5, a little flattened above, the last 

 scarcely angulated, convex below ; peristome acute, strongly lipped 

 within. Diam. 6 mill. 



Taragon, Central Pyrenees. 



H. PALADILHI, Bourg. PI. 2, figs. 78-80. 



Rather narrowly umbilicated, somewhat closely unequally costu- 

 late, whitish, with a single interrupted brown band above the peri- 

 phery, apex light corneous ; whorls 5, slightly convex, slowly in- 

 creasing, the last scarcely descending in front, barely angulated, 

 convex below ; peristome acute, scarcely labiate within. 



Diam. 8 mill. 



Montpellier, France. 

 H. CYPARISSIAS, Parr. PI. 1, fig. 49. 



Moderately umbilicated, closely costulate-striate, white, punctate 

 or irregularly maculated and subfasciate with chestnut, apex cor- 



