506 Mr. Jurrreys’s Supplement to the “Synopsis of 
tion of British shells, and also in Dr. Turton’s cabinet; in both 
cases mixed with the other sort. 
VITRINA. 
V. Mülleri, p. 326. 
V. beryllina. Pfeiffer, Sand-und-wasser Schnecken $c. i. 
p. 41. Tof. ii. fig. 1. 
V. pellucida. Mr. Alder, Catal. 
'The distribution of this species over our island appears to be 
very extensive. It is also mentioned in the Appendix to Welsh 
and Whitelaw's History of Dublin, under Captain Brown's name 
of Helix elliptica, as found at Ferbane and other parts of that 
neighbourhood. ‘The animal has the same carnivorous pro- 
pensities as the smaller Limacide and Testacelli; and I once 
detected no less than seven individuals busily engaged in feed- 
ing on a scarcely dead earthworm, which was faintly writhing 
about, and endeavoured in vain to get rid of its assailants. 
V. Draparnaldi, p. 326. 
Helicolimax Audebardi. Férussac, Prodr. p. 21. 
In addition to the locality before mentioned, I have to add 
that I lately found a single specimen on Mount Edgecumbe near 
Plymouth. It is an intermediate species between the last and 
the Helix diaphana of Draparnaud. 
V. elongata, p- 327, lege Dillwynii, Jeffreys. 
This being a different species from the V. elongata of Drapar- 
naud, I have-ventured to dedicate it to my much esteemed 
friend, L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. of Penllergare, the well known 
author of several standard works on natural history. 
HELIX. 
H. pomatia, p. 329. 
This species appears to be most attached to chalky soils and 
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