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HELIX VENULATA, Pfeiffer. 
Helix venulata, Pfi\, P.Z.S., 1857, p. 108; M.H.V., vol. 4, p. 163; 
vol. 5, p. 232, No. 1395. 
Shell imperforated, depressed, thin, closely plicately-striated, downy, 
variegated with corneous and reddish markings, disposed in streaks and 
spots ; spire slightly elevated ; whorls -I I, convex, gradually increasing, 
the last not descending, impressed in the middle of the base ; aperture 
vertical, elongately-lunar ; peristome simple, right margin straight, basal 
margin somewhat rellexed, columellar margin bent downwards, sub¬ 
callous, adnate. 
Diam., greatest, 6; least, 5 ; height, 3 mill. 
Hab., New Zealand. 
HELIX (CHAROPA) PORTIA, Gray. 
Helix Portia, Gray, P.Z.S., 1849, p. 165; Pfr., M.H.V., vol. 3, p. 154; 
vol. 5, p. 246, No. 1505. 
Shell umbilicated, depressed, thinnisli, sculptured with closely-set, 
elevated, sub-arcuated plaits, covered sparsely with rather rigid hairs, 
horny, variegated with rufous spots and streaks; spire short, convex; 
whorls 51, rather convex, regularly increasing, the last somewhat inflated 
beneath the suture, not descending anteriorly, sub-compressed at the 
base about a moderate, pervious umbilicus ; aperture oblique, rotundly- 
lunar ; peristome simple, margins nearly united, the upper part arcuately 
protracted below the insertion, the basal part shortly reflexed, ascending 
obliquely to the umbilicus. 
Diam., greatest, 8; least, 7; height, 4 mill. 
Hab. New Zealand (Greenwood, Strange). » 
HELIX (CHAROPA) KAPPA, Pfeiffer. 
Helix kappa, Pfr., P.Z.S., 1851; M.H.V., vol. 3, p. 154; vol. 5, p. 246, 
No. 1506. Helix collyrula, Reeve. 
Shell umbilicated, depressed, ribbed, ribs bearing hair-like filaments, 
not shining, horny, obscurely variegated with rufous ; spire extremely 
short, rather convex ; suture impressed; whorls 5, rather convex, 
gradually increasing, the last not descending, rounded; umbilicus narrow, 
pervious; aperture vertical, depressed, lunar; peristome somewhat 
simple, margins remote, the right margin straight, basal margin shortly 
reflexed, columellar margin obliquely ascending. 
Diam., greatest, 5,( ; least, 5; height, 3 mill. 
Plab., New Zealand (Strange). 
HELIX (RHYTIDA) GREENWOODI, Gray. 
Helix Greenwoodi, Gray, P.Z.S., 1849, p. 165; Pfr., M.H.Y., vol. 3, 
p. 156; vol. 5, p. 247, No. 1520. 
Shell umbilicated, convexly-depressed, thinnish, throughout very closely 
rugosely-granulated, slightly shining, fuscous with an olive-green tinge ; 
