162 Rev. R. SHEPPARD'S Account 
49. HELIX RADIATA. Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. viii. p. 199. 
Common under pieces of wood and bark in Middlewood Off- 
ton, Friston wood, &c. 
I have a beautiful pale-green variety without rays from Stour 
wood, in Ramsey, Essex ; and some pale specimens of a larger 
size (also without rays) from Dinton Hall grounds in Bucking- 
hamshire, a present from Dr. Goodall. 
50. Hzrix KinBir. 
H. testa nunc subconica nunc subdepressa subpellucida striata, 
anfractibus quatuor, umbilico patulo. 
Habitat sub saxis et lignis. 
Testa diametro 1 lin. rufo-cornea ; anfractibus subtiliter striatis. 
Apertura subrotundo-lunata. Labium tenue. Umbilicus 
profundus. À 
Found under stones between Baylham and Great Blakenham. 
In Essex it occurs in considerable numbers in Stour wood, 
Ramsey; Glebe grove, Parsonage garden and lawn in Wrabness, 
under stones and pieces of wood, as well sound as decayed. 
This shell had the trivial name of elegans, originally given it 
. by me; but that name being pre-occupied by Draparnaud, I 
hope this beautiful little species will in future be called after one 
of the best of men, and best of friends, the Rev. William Kirby 
of Barham. | 
À friend assures me, that he has examined several specimens 
I sent him, without being able to discern any difference betwixt 
them and the young of Heliz umbilicata. But as it never exceeds 
+ a line in diameter, whereas the H. umbilicata equals ;';th of an 
inch ; as it is found in profusion in the above-mentioned places 
in Essex ; and the whorls, four only in number, never appear 
ferè disjuncti, as they do in that shell, which has five whorls, and 
has 
