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whorl extending over the periphery, and converging in the umbilical 

 excavation ; spire very little elevated, scarcely convex ; whorls 7, 

 planulate, the last rapidly increasing, equal at the aperture to ]- the 

 diam. of the shell, beneath flattened, and little excavated in the 

 umbilical region ; suture lightly impressed ; aperture scarcely ob- 

 lique, depressed, transverse, lunate ; peristome simple, acute, sinu- 

 ate, the columellar margin very rapidly and narrowly reflected over, 

 and almost entirely covering the very small perforation. 



Diam. maj. 12J-, min. 11, alt. 5 mill. 



Habitat. " The Anantehely Mountains, which are a local spur 

 of the Alleghany Mountains in North Carolina, just where that 

 State touches Georgia and Tennessee." Bishop Elliott. 



A single specimen of this very interesting species was found in 

 the locality above mentioned, by Bishop Elliott, in whose cabinet I 

 noticed it some months ago. In sculpture it is closely allied to 

 H. indentata Say, of which it might almost be termed a gigantic 

 variety, but the impressed striae are more numerous, and closer 

 together. The form of the aperture is very near that of H. inor- 

 nata Binney. 



The general aspect of this shell reminds one of the Asiatic group, 

 to which H. resplendens Phil, and H. vitrinoides Desh. belong. 



The above is Eland's description. 



HELIX CELLARIA MULLER vol. ii. p. 230, pi. xxix. fig. 4. 



Helix glaphyra SAY (Binney's ed.) p. 7, pi. 69, fig. 3. 



BLAND, N. Y. Lye. vi. p. 52; Notes, 52 nee PFEIFFER. 

 Helix cellaria DEKAY, 1. c. (non cellaria.) 



Found in Salem, Lynn, Marblehead, Providence, Con- 

 necticut, Portland. 



Pfeiffer describes inornata under this name. 



Helix glaphyra. There seems to me no doubt that Dr. 

 Gould and my father are correct in considering this species 

 to have been an accidentally introduced specimen of the 

 European Helix cellaria Mull. See the Invert, of Mass. 

 and Terrestrial Mollusks, as well as my Notes on Ameri- 

 can Land Shells, No. 2, Proc. A. N. S. Phila. That this 



