PLATE CXXXVI. 



Cochlea subumbillcata, maculata, unica fascia angusta, per medium 

 anfractus insignita. Unifasciata, single streak, 

 Da Costa. Brit. Conch, p. 15. sp. 40. 



Helis arbustorum. Shrub. Penn. Brit. Zool. No. 130. tab. 85. 

 fig. 130. 



Like the two species of Helices, nemoralis and hortensis, this shell 

 varies exceedingly in its colours and markings in different shells ; but 

 the single narrow spiral band very uniformly distinguishes it from any 

 other. According to Lister and Petiver, it is found in shady hedges, 

 and is frequent in rushy, moist, or marshy meadows. Da- Costa 

 says, it is also found in coppices and shrubberies ; but, from his own 

 observations, it is not a common kind : we have seen it in woods, 

 though not often. 



It may deserve remark, that this shell is generally found empty. 

 Muller accounts for this, by acquainting us, that the animal is the 

 prey of young Newts. Sometimes when the animal is living, the 

 shell is of a light chesnut colour, finely marbled, mottled, or other- 

 wise variegated, with a deep chocolate coloured brown. 



