218 
Succinea. 
Dr. Maton’s and Mr. RAckETT'S 
destitute of bands. Chemnitz’s figure represents the 
shell, but is cited by Gmelin for Heliz acuta, perhaps 
a variety of H. detrita; see Pulteney’s Catalogue, 
p. 49. et Montagu Test. Brit. p. 385. : 
- This shell has been freq uently sought for, (but with- 
out success) in the place whe: the oe a: EU pro- 
cured it. — — 
H. testa oblonga, fulva, diaphana, anfractibus 3; 
apertura ovata. Muller Verm. 2. p. 97. n. 296. 
Hill's Swammerd. p. 69. t. 8. f. 4. 
Gualt. Test. t. 5. f. H. 
Schrót. Erdconch. t. 1. f. 2. | 
Chemn. Conch. 9. t. 135. f. 1248. : 
Pulteney in Hutch. Dorset. p. 48. t. 18. f. 19. H. inten. 
Montagu Test. Brit. p. 316. t. 16. J. å. (bene.) H. putris. 
Donovan Brit. Shells, t. 168. "a 1. H. putris. 
Mey a pratis kons supra plantas riparias, Incola flavescens, mo 
cinereis, tentaculis quatuor. © 
Testa 3. poll. longa, vix } lata, szepius minor, oblonga, gulis, pellucidissi- 
ma, membranacea, fragilissima, colore succini flavi. -Anfractus 
primus maximus, elongatus, minimé ventricosus. _4pertura plusquam 
dimidiam testam longitudine equans. Labrum tenuissimum. Spira 
productior. Apex acutus. 
Dr. Pulteney first distinguished his species as dif- 
ES . ferent from H. putris. It does not agree better yin 
the description of H. limosa, “anfractibus quinque." 
SMS I 
trivial name of suc- 
We have therefore retained Muller's. 
. inea, who has well defined the shell, and described its 
posing this species to 
included animal. Gmelin has followed Muller in sup- 
be the H. putris of Linnzeus, 2nd 
£x has 
