12. 
_ been followed in this respect by succeeding 
should have confounded ms vith t w | follon 
Mollusca of Great Britain. 337 
Under stones &c. in dry places in the neighbourhood 
of Swansea, mixed with the following ; and very plentifully 
among the rejectamenta of the Avon river, near Bristol. 
The variety is of a smaller size, more pellucid, and of a 
paler colour, and was presented to me by Mr. Dillwyn as 
Irish. Müller's specimens (if this shell be the long-sought- 
for H. polita of that author) may have been bleached, and 
conveyed to the habitat mentioned by him (on the banks of 
torrents in Lombardy) by the waters of a flood. 
RUFESCENS. 
Animal nigro-griseum. Tentacula | syperiona çraapiora, valdè 
divergentia. 
Testa depressior, glabra, striata, subcarinata, rufescenti- 
cornea. Anfractus 6. Apertura subrotundo-lunata, 
intüs marginata: peristomio subreflexo. Umbilicus pa- 
tulus. 
- Long. 0.25.— Diam. 0.5. 
Helix rufescens. Penn. Brit. Zool. 4. p. 134. Mont. 
Test. Brit. p. 420. t. 23. f. 2. Maton & Rackett in 
Linn. Trans. 8. p.196. Dillic. Cat. 2. p. 895. 
—-— hispida, juniores, et var. helvetica. Müll. Verm.2. 
p. TA. 
Common in hedges, gardens, &c. In every stage of 
growth, from half a line upwards, it is smooth, and not in 
the least hispid ; and it is surprising that Montagu, who has 
J ish authors, 
| | well-known 
Continental species. - 
It is either the sisielia o or - hispida, var. 8. of Draparnaud 
but I am rather inclined to think the former. 
2x2 ee 18. Hrsprpa. | 
