HELIX. 



obtuse, yellowish corneous, smooth ; whorls 4-5, the first n-ularlv. 

 last rapidly increasing, subconvex-depflBMed, separated by nmd.- 

 ly impressed sutures; body-whorl large, depressed, ohsrmvly csri- 

 nated at the periphery, gently descendin.ir and suddenly deflexed ; 

 aperture oblique, lunate, ovate, the margins approximating; prri- 

 stome somewhat acute, a little expanded, white, sublabiate within, 

 reflexed at the umbilicus, the columellar margin apprised, slightly 

 thickened. Diam. 17, alt. 8 mill. (Mabille.) 



Monte. <li Soinnin, I'nibria. 

 May be a synonym of If. atriguhi Fer. 



H. TIBERII (Parr. ) Martens, 1860. 



Covered perforate, conic-depressed, obliquely rugose-striate, de- 

 cussated by microscopic spiral striae, bands four, interrupted, tin- 

 upper three confluent, marbled ; aperture very oblique, transversely 

 oval, brown within; peristome white, sublabiate, superior margin 

 straight, columellar margin straightened, callus, subdentate. a|>- 



pressed. Diam. 21, alt. 10 mill. (Martens.) 



Sicily. 

 I can learn nothing of the species. 



H. HUELOWI Maltzan, 1886. 



Entirely covered, or very slightly rimate, depressed, nearly lentic- 

 ular, acutely carinated, solid, irregularly rugose, under a lens show- 

 ing very subtle spiral lines, grayish white, quadrifasciate with brown 

 maculations ; whorls 5, the apical slightly convex, smooth, the fol- 

 lowing planulate, with a margined carina at the suture ; body-whorl 

 convex above and below, with a submedian prominently compressed 

 carina, anteriorly abruptly, deeply deflexed; aperture very oblique, 

 annulate-ovate, somewhat lunate, the margins converging, but scarce- 

 ly connected, the upper at first subinflexed, then patulous, the low- 

 er reflexed, with a white shining callus, distinctly tubercnlate in the 

 middle within, a brown spot at its insertion. 



I )iam. 22-}, alt. 12 mill. (Maltznn. > 



Cape San Vito, Smly. 



Differs from H. scabrinscula in the median carina, and the re- 

 flexed, strongly dentate basal margin. 



H. ROLLEI Maltzan, 1886. 



Depressed, rather solid, rather smooth, under a leu im-ularly 

 striatulate, shining, whitish, ornamented with brown ,t rural > 

 above, which tend to form three bands, and with an mterrupte 

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