HELIX. 257 



Helix Trumbulli, LINSLET, Shells of Conn. (Sill. Journ. [i], XLVIII. 280), = 



Skenea scrpuloides. See Vol. IV. 125. 

 Helix pellucida, FABRICIUS == Vitrina, Angelica. 

 Helix arbustorum. See Vol. IV. 124, and ADAMS, Cat. Cabinet, 32. Does not 



inhabit America. 



Helix hieroglyphica, BECK, Ind. Am. Sept. ? See Vol. IV. 124. 

 Helix domestica, STROM. See Vitrina Angelicas, 

 Helix dcalbata, SAY == Bulimulus. 

 Helix corpuloides. See Vol. IV. 124. 



Helix Bonplandi, LAMARCK. See Vol. IV. 124. JAY, Cat., ed. 2, 33. Ten- 

 nessee. 



Helix haliotoidcs, FABRICIUS, Fauna Grb'enl., 390 (1780) = Sigaretus. 

 Helix heligmoidea, D'ORB. (Ophiogyra), is said to have been found by Mr. H. 



Moores in 1849, in the Zoot Hills of the west slope of the Sierra Nevada, about 



five miles south of Coloma, and about a quarter of a mile south of Weber Creek, 



under an old log ; a single old specimen. 



The species is described from Guyaquil, Columbia, South America. 

 Helix virginca, WOOD, Ind. Suppl., p. 21, Fig. 19 = Melania Vircjinica. 

 Helix urceus, MULLER, DILLWYN, Cat., II. 918 = Ampullaria. 

 Helix fiuscata, BORN, Mus. Vind., 1780, 390, PL XVI. Fig. 17. Virginia. 

 Helix irrorata, SAY == H. lactea, MULLER. See Vol. IV. 124. Does not now 



exist in America. 



Helix rastellum, BECK, Ind., 8. Am. s. 

 Helix pcrsonata, LAMARCK, Ohio. JAY, Cat., ed. 2, 36, 1836, and VILLA, Disp., 



14, 1841. 



Helix punctata, DILLWYN, Cat., II. 899, is from Martinique, not Virginia. 

 Helix ruderata, STUDER, ANTHONY, Ohio Cat., No. 31 == striatella? 

 Hdif. variabilis, DRAP., North America. See FORBES, Brit. Ass. Rep., 1840, 



145; see also Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., III. 489 ; FERUSSAC, Tabl. Syst., 48. 

 Helix (Eurycratcra) lineolata, LAM., is erroneously quoted from North America by 



BECK (Index, 45). 

 Helix Stccnstrupii, Mb'RCH. Greenland. I can find no description of it. Vide 



Vol. IV. 117. 



Helix subcarinata, WOOD (Index, Suppl., PI. VII. Fig. 13) = Leptoxis. 

 Helix dissimilis, WOOD (Index, Suppl., PI. VII. Fig. 18) = Melantho decisa. 

 Helix dccisa, WOOD (Index, Suppl., PI. VII. Fig. 19) = Lioplax subcarinata. 

 Helix bidentifera, PHILLIPS (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., I. 27, 1841), North 



Carolina = H. barbula, CHARP., of Portugal (1. c. p. 133). 

 Helix palustris, RACKETT = Limncea palustris. 

 Helix angulata, RACKETT = Planorbis bicarinatus. 

 Helix albclla, DILLWYN, Cat., II. 890. Virginia. 



FOSSIL SPECIES OF HELIX. 



Dr. Meek furnishes the following list of fossil species : 



Helix Lcidiji, HALL & MEEK, Am. Acad. Arts and Sci., Boston, V. 394, new ser. 

 Helix amplcxus, MEEK & HAYDEN, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., 1861, 431. 

 = Planorbis amplcxus, M. & H., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., 1857, 135. 

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