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nally (divergently) striate, its lateral ends being pointed and produced. 
Morse, c. pp. 11 & 21. 
Tunctmn, g, n., Morse. Type Helix minutissima (I^ea). Very remarkable 
by its buccal plate being composed of sixteen distinct oblong laminae, figured 
on p. 28 the teeth of the radula are quadrangular plates with rather short 
denticles, strangely similar to those of Carychium, p. 39. The shell resembles 
that of the European H. pygmcea (Drap.), the jaw of which is represented by 
Moquin-Tandon as simple. 
Helix. European species : — 
Helix iynota is a new name proposed by Mabille, Journ. Conch, xiii. p. 265, 
for If. intersecta (Michaud). According to him. Helix intei'secta of Poifet 
and Brard would be another species =Jff. striata {\)vi\:^.)~fasciolata (Moquin- 
Tandon), and H fasciolata of Poiret a third=cflr^^^?^WM/a (Stud.) j he pro- 
poses, therefore, to change all these names. We think this would cause new 
confusion, and it would be better to retain the name of candidala, generally 
adopted for a species well Iniown to every conchologist, instead of substitu- 
ting for it a name which is interpreted by every author in a different 
manner. 
Helix constricta (Boub^e) has been found in several parts in the western 
half of the Pyrenees, on French as well as on Spanish territor}\ Crosse, 
Journ, Conch, xiii. pp. 369-376. 
Helix carce found.in Corsica by M. Aucapitaine. See above, p. 218. 
Species from Northern Africa and Western Asia : — 
Helix ehalhnavliann^ Bonrguignat, Mai. Alg. ii. p. 306, near H. frutievm^ 
Miill. ; H. hasticliana, Bonrguignat, 1. c. p. 397, near the preceding ; H. ahlen- 
ilia, Bourguiguat, 1. c. p. 311. 
Helix desertorum and H melanostoma. On their varieties and geographical 
range. Martens, Malak. Blatt. xii. pp. 188-193. 
Helix stauropolitana (A. Schmidt), var. elegans^ Issel, Mem. Accad. Torin. 
xxiii. p. 30, pi. 1. figs. 20-22, from Ghilan, Northern Persia; H. langhi- 
siana (Bourg.) from Schiraz, figured by Issel, I, c. pi. 1. figs. 17-19. 
Helix carmelitaj sp. n., Tristram, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 632, Mount 
Carmel. (As this specific name is already preoccupied by F^russac for a spe- 
cies, not from Mount Carmel, but supposed to resemble in its colours the dress 
of the Carmelite monks, we would propose the name H tristramii] H. ma- 
sadtx, sp. n., Tristram, 1. c. p. 635, Sebbeh to Jebel Usdum, Palestine, very 
near to H. spiriplana (Olivier). 
Species from Eastern Asia 
Helix hlakeana and declivis, sp. n., Newcomb, Proceed. Calif. Acad. Nat. 
Sc. 1865, .Japan; H. mynmphala, sp. n.. Martens, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. 
Berl. 1864, p. 63, Yokohama, Japan ; H vesta, shermani, granti, stvinhoei, 
fortnosensis, hucca, and mUlea, sp. n., Pfeiffer, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, pp. 828- 
829, all from Formosa, figured on plate 46 : H. shermani, granti, and mellea 
appear to belong to the group Plectotrojns, H, swinhoei and formosensis to 
Camena — the latter sinistral, like H. cicatricosa. 
Helix hasihssa, sp. n., Benson, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xv. p. ll,Tra- 
vaiicore; H polypleuris, sp. n., Blanford, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1866, 
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