of the Land and Fresh-water Shells of Suffolk. 161 
An almost diaphanous whitish variety is found in Little Stour 
wood, Wrabness. 
This species is distinct from Helix nitens and Helix hispida ; 
assuming nevertheless, in some respects, the characters of both. 
Its upper superficies has a dull waxy appearance, thereby differ- 
ing from either of them. ‘The animal is of a light colour, and 
emits no unpleasant smell; and the young shells particularly are 
beautifully striated ; which circumstances separate it from H. ni- 
tens ; whilst on the other hand, like that shell, its under surface 
is whitish and highly polished, and it is found in the same situa- 
tions. It is not so convex as H. hispida, never goes under water, 
and is of a different colour: yet the young are scarcely dis- 
cernible from those of that shell. 
It occurs in Mons. Draparnaud's work ; but as he describes it 
with four volutions only, whereas it has five, I presume he had 
not seen it in its adult state. 
When Dr. Pulteney tells us that Helix hispida is common in 
woods, does he not intend this species ? 
48. Hexvix urspipa. Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. viii. p. 198. 
At the edges of the third mill-pond on Porter's Farm, Leving- 
ton; on pieces of wood submersed in, and at the roots of grass 
occasionally covered with water by the side of, Baylham pond. 
In Essex, on old wooden piles in Ramsey decoy-pond. 
'lhis is an amphibious shell, and is frequently found some 
feet below the-surface of water on stakes and piles, upon which 
it ascends and descends at pleasure. 
On the 2d of June 1821, I took a specimen at Ramsey ageey: 
pond with four eggs adhering to the animal; they were round, 
white, and opake, resembling the eggs of birds, and retain their 
form without shrinking. 
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