238 HELIX. 



blackish brown, imicolored ; the umbilicus covered ; with fine 

 radiating more or less distinct striation. 



Southern Tyrol. 

 Var. brunnea Porro is synonymous. 



Var. LEDNTCENSIS Brancsik. 



Globose, very thick shelled ; peristome very thick, reddish violet or 

 flesh-colored ; columellar lip broadly reflected, the umbilicus almost 

 wide open; whorls 4-4-7, regularly increasing; ground color in 

 young examples yellowish-brown, with slightly marked bands, old 

 specimens lighter colored with very faint bands or without them, 

 but with several reddish or yellowish brown streaks, in the direction 

 of growth-lines, and touched with reddish around the aperture. 



Alt. 38-40 mill. 



Lednicz, Hunr/arln. 

 Var. THESSALICA Boettger. 



Differs from the type by the umbilicus, which is twice as wide, 

 subinfundibuliform ; the more fragile shell ; bands 4-5, narrower, 

 more or less distinct, maculated ; shell large, globose, the last whorl 

 wider ; aperture distinctly higher than wide. 



Diana. 47^-52, alt. 46-52 mill. 



Thessaly. 

 Var. LAGARiNyE Adami. 



This is a form of colossal dimensions and uniform dark fulvous 

 color. Diam. 45-58, alt. 55-70 mill. 



Mts. of Lagarina Valley, up to 1 300 meters alt. 



Var. PSEUDOLIGATA Paulucci. Not recognizably described. 



Middle Italy. 

 Var. RADIATA Ulicny. 



Large, covered perforate, subconic, pale fulvous, without bands, 

 but with radiating brown strigations ; rather thin ; aperture oval, 

 white within. Diam. 47, alt. 43 mill. 



Brunn. 



According to Clessen, this is the same as var. rustica Hartmann. 



H. BUCHII Dubois, 1876. PL 57, figs. 20, 21. 



Covered or nearly closed perforate, conic globose, rather thin, 

 rugose, very pale fulvous, ornamented with five bands ; spire conoid, 

 obtuse ; whorls 4i, slightly convex, rapidly increasing, the last ven- 

 tricose, subdescending anteriorly ; aperture oblique* large, lunate- 



