196 COCHLOSTYLA-HELCIOBULINUS. 



which ascends the spire above the sutures. Having a band of 

 hydrophanous cuticle below the peripheral girdle, usually almost 

 entirely lost. 



Spire conoid, apex very obtuse. Whorls 5, the first nearly 

 planate, the last slightly deflexed in front. Aperture large, blue- 

 white within ; lip narrowly expanded, purplish-pink ; columella of 

 the same color, subvertical, nearly straight, faintly obliquely trun- 

 cated below. Alt. 72, diam. 64 mill. 



Northern Negros ; Masbate ; Visayas ; Batayan, Zebu. 



H. sarcinosa FEB., Hist. t. 109, f. 1, 2. BROD., P. Z. S. 1840, p. 

 121. REEVE, Conch. Icon. f. 5b ; Conch. Syst. ii, t. 163, f. 7. 

 PFR., Monogr. i, p. 244; Conchyl. Cab. t. 40, figs. 1, 2 (not 3, 4). 

 Bulimus sarcinosus PFR., Symbolse ii, p. 50. Cochlostyla (Ortho- 

 stylus) sarcinosa SEMP., Reis. p. 201. C. (Helicobulimus') sarcinosa 

 MLLDFF., Landschn. Cebu, p. 241. C. sarcinosa HIDALGO, Journ. 

 de Conchyl. 1887, p. 138. 



The typical C. sarcinosa is a large, green shell, with a brown 

 peripheral band. It is so intimately connected with the following 

 that I am unable to say whether some of the specimens before me 

 should be considered turgens or sarcinosa, and am therefore com- 

 pelled to unite the species, as Pfeiffer at one time did. 



Var. TURGENS Desk PL 46, figs. 50, 51, 52. 



Typically smaller than s t arcinosa, the prevailing color brown 

 instead of green. The hydrophanous cuticle is disposed in numer- 

 ous revolving bands, interrupted irregularly by oblique brown 

 streaks. Peripheral brown band either present or wanting. 



Alt. 55, diam. 52 mill. 



Alt. 70, diam. 55 mill. 



Alt. 53, diam. 53 mill. 



Panay, Guimaras and Luzon, Philippines. 



H. turgens DH. in Fer. Hist. p. 316, t. 108 C, f. 11, 13. IT. sar- 

 cinosa var. PFR., Conchyl. Cab. t. 40, f. 3, 4. Cochlostyla turgens 

 SEMP., Reis. p. 201. HIDALGO, Journ. de Conch. 1887, p. 138. 



Excessively variable in contour. 



C. TURBINOIDES Broderip. PI. 47, fig. 63 ; pi. 62, fig. 29. 



Imperforate, globose-turbinate ; ground-color green, becoming 

 reddish on the spire ; having silvery hydrophanous bands. 



