HKLIX. _>];) 



white, reflexed, dilated over the umbilicus, which is usually reduced 

 to a narrow fissure or almost wholly covered. Diam. :;_>. alt. :;:; mill. 



The synonymy includes H. decussate Parr., mrli.^ophaga Costa, 



varians Ziegler. 



Var. GUSSONKANA Shuttleworth. 



Nearly covered perforate, conico-globose, solid, distinctly, minute- 

 ly reticulate, brownish white, ornamented with live IM-OWII hands; 

 spire elevated, conoidal ; whorls 5, convex, the last scarce! v doreml- 

 ing; coluniella arcuate; aperture rounded-lunar, shining within; 

 peristome subsimple, the right margin a trifle expanded, colmnellar 

 dilated, reflexed, white or flesh colored. Diam. -'>4, alt. 30 mill. 

 (Pfeiff&r.) Aronml A'<////'.-\ 



I am unable to distinguish this variety from the typical form. 



Var. CALABRICA Kobelt. PL 67, fig. 1. 



Shell marked with five narrow rufous bands; coluniella and 

 parietal wall rufous; umbilicus closed; spiral lines subobsolete. 



Diam. 34, alt. 32 mill. 



Calabria. 

 Var. POMATELLA Tiberi. PI. 56, figs. 2, 3. 



Small, very distinctly four banded. Southern Italy. 



Var. PR^ETUTIA Tiberi. * 



Subriimt3, depressed globose, strongly striate, solid, whitish with 

 three broad pale fulvous bands. Diam. 39, alt. 37 mill. 



Near Naples. 



Var. CAMPANA Tiberi. PI. 56, fig. 1. 

 Imperforate, elevated globose, glabrous, obsoletely striate, BX- 



banded. Diam. 26, alt. 25 mill. 



Near Naples. 



Var. DELPRETIANA Paulucci. 



Elevated, conic, white, with five very distinctly defined deep hn.wn 

 bands : surface rather smooth ; umbilicus almost closed. 



Diam. 25, alt. 28 mill. 



. 1 hruzzi. 



Var. TRUENTINA Mascarini. Unfigured. 



An intermediate form between ligata, lucorum and pamat 

 equally related to all that Kobelt declares it to be a mere matte 

 taste to which of these species it be referred. 



