ii i.i- 1\. 

 Oryptomphalua Moq-Tand., 



II. A8PEB8A Miiller, 1773. PL 58, figs. 31-38. 



I m perforate, globose or globose-conic, rather strong and 

 yellowish or russet, with five bands, varying from light chestnut !.. 

 nearly black, more or less interrupted by irregular ,r /.i^/au r lon-i- 

 tudinal light streaks, the second and third bauds generally continent. 

 sometimes all confluent or all absent; obliquely coarsely sub-mate, 

 all over finely malleate ; whorls 4, very rapidly increasing, tin- apex 

 blunt, apical whorl shining, smooth ; body-whorl very lar-v. L r| M j, 

 deeply deflexed at the aperture; aperture quite oblique, oval-tru& 

 livid within, and prominently fasciate ; peristoine well expanded all 

 around, white, the margins converging, basal and columellar mar- 

 irins reflexed, adnate over the very narrow round perforation of tin- 

 axis ; columellar insertion vertical. Diain. 25-40, alt. % Jn 4<) mill. 



Southern and W'rxfcrn Europe; England; Syria; Xnrthmi Afri- 

 ca ; Introduced into Canariex, Azores and Madeira I*.: !>' 

 An/entine; Chi/i; Guiana; Cape of Good Hope ; Mauritius: 

 Xnr South Wale*; New Zealand ; Haiti : Cnh.i ; \,,rtli America 

 at (.'Iiai-Ic*ton, N. C., New Orleans, La., Los Angela. Sta. l><irbara 

 ami X<ui .1 <>---f\ rW/., Nova Scotia, etc. 



The following are synonyms ; H. grisea L., variegata < 1m., linrt* n- 

 818 Penn., leucorwn 1'ult., secunda Costa,, jlmnmni*;* Lang, adspersa 

 lieck and xjmmosa Lowe. 



A species of very wide distribution, and great variation in color 

 and form. The principal color mutations are figured the iignn-s 

 :\-2. :J4 and :>(> representing the more usual pattern^ 



11. MAZZULLII Jan. PI. 59, figs. 54-57. 



Imperforate; similar in form to H. asperia, but more conoid, 



elongated and slender in the spire ; the apical whorl shining, smooth, 

 the following very sharply crispate-striate ; aperture rounded, 

 broad than that of aspersa, the lip narrowly expanded, thin, acute, 

 adnate at the axis; color yellowish russet, plain, or Bve f 

 with deep brown, the bands narrow, subcontiljUOUB, secc 



third often confluent. I Ham. M, alt. 35 mill. 



Sidly. 



The following- are synonyms: H. crispata Costa (non 1' 

 mgis (Mke.) Cantraine, rugosa Miihlf. (teste Beck ), H.<** 



This Sicilian modification of the aspersa stock in subject to , 

 va.-iat.ion in sculpture and form. In the typical notrottl t 



