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HELIX-PAPUINA. 



This shell, like Helix meta Pfr., is subject to remarkable varia- 

 tions in color, but may at once be distinguished by its smaller size, 

 the convexity of the whorls, and the roundness of the aperture, in 

 which the subflexuous outer lip and diagonal form of H. meta are 

 wanting. The general form of the shell presents somewhat of a 

 Paludina-Yike aspect. The outer lip is much less expanded and 

 reflected than in H. meta, and the texture less glossy and shining. 

 (Angas.} 



Alt. 26, greater diam. 20, lesser 16 mill. 



Solomon Archipelago f 



H. beatrix ANG., P. Z. S. 1876, p. 265. t. 20, f. 1-5. 

 H. CHOISEULENSIS. Brazier. PI. 10, fig. 90. 



Shell perforate, conical, moderately solid, obliquely very finely 

 striated, reddish-brown, ornamented with a yellow sutural band, and 

 two others below ; spire conical, apex acute ; whorls 6, moderately 

 convex, the last not descending, slightly angled at the periphery, con- 

 vex at the base ; aperture diagonal ; peristome rose colored, rather 

 widely expanded and reflexed ; columellar margin dilated and 

 reflected, almost covering the perforation. (Brazier.) 



Alt. 16, greater diam. 16 mill. 



Choiseul Id., Solomon Group. 



H. choiseulensis BRAZ., P. Z. S. 1872, p. 21, t. 4, f. 7. 

 H. SPLENDESCENS Cox. Unfigured. 



Shell covered-perforate, globose-conic, thin, pellucid, smooth, 

 polished, chestnut colored, darker at the carina ; a whitish band be- 

 low the suture, and beneath two wider white bands ; spire conic, 

 apex white; whorls 6, subplanate, the last planate above, convex, 

 very obsoletely carinated, produced forward ; aperture very oblique, 

 rounded-elongate, subsinuate in front ; peristome thin, reflexed, ex- 

 panded at the straight columella, chestnut colored, narrowly edged 

 with white. Alt. I'lO, greater diam. 0'95, lesser 0'80 inch. (Cox.*) 



Solomon Islands. 



H. splendescens Cox, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 696 ; Journ. de Conchyl. 

 1866, p. 48. PFR., Monogr. v, p. 335. 



H. BRENCHLEYI Brazier. Unfigured. 



Shell narrowly perforate, conical, rather thin, very finely 

 obliquely striated, bright straw-yellow with bright reddish-chestnut 

 band on the periphery running spirally above the suture, below 



