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Var. FUSCOLABIATA Rossm. PI. 64, figs. 32-34. 



Somewhat larger than the type, sometimes bandless, usually with 

 the lower band absent, the others so interrupted that tin- .-hell ap- 

 pears above to be radiately streaked with white and brown : aperture 

 and peristome clear brown. Sorrento; O////-/ ; /V</,,,,,. 



Var. POSIDONIENSIS Tiberi. PI. 60, figs. 66, 67. 



Large, decidedly widened, especially the last whorl ; depressed 

 and sharply sculptured. PcBsfnm. 



Var. SICULA Benoit. 



Sharply costulate above; aperture more rounded, iusn>-Iahiatr. 



Sicily. 

 Var. APULA Blanc. PI. 64, figs. 28,29. 



Sculpture more distinct ; aperture more rounded, less oblique. 



Tarn a (<>. 

 Var. POLITA Paulucci. 



This pretty variety is distinguished by its relatively almost smooth 

 shell, as well as by the row of little spots scattered along the suture, 

 a character which is completely absent in all the typical individual.-. 

 I have received this variety from Engineer Molteni, of FliL r n<> 

 (Umbria), mingled with a number of H. ftrigata. It appears quite 

 common. (Ptriilucci.') 



H. CARSO LIANA Ferussac. PI. 65, figs. 42-44. 



Almost closed perforate, globose sub-depressed, thick, opaque 

 white, with three narrow interrupted chestnut hands, spire slightly 

 prominent, composed of 5 whorls, flattened and narrow, the last wide. 

 very convex, with a very narrow umbilical perforation ; surface ir- 

 regularly striate, the stria? more prominent at the suture. U-cnmini: 

 obsolescent below : aperture small, very oblique, oval, a little wider 

 than high; peristome thickened within, narrowly retlexed. culmnel- 

 lar margin oblique, dilated at the insertion. (Fer. et Desk.) 



Diam. 18 i, alt. 8.] mill. 



It is H. carseolana Auct. and H. marrm-iim Til)., ( pi. <>6, figs. 84- 



86.) 



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Mine. Paulucci (Materiaux, etc., p. 34) says : "The type -of this 

 species, as it is represented in the work of Ferussac correspond.- exact- 

 ly with Mt. Maiella specimens which I have received from Dr. Tilu-ri 

 under the name of H. marrucina (PL 66, figs. 84-86). It is a shell 

 with the umbilicus wholly closed, with pale bands, so interrupted as 



