Mollusca of Great Britain. ..>,. 337 



Under stones &c. in dry places in the neighbourhood 

 of Swansea, mixed with the following ; and very plentifully 

 among the rejectamenta of the Avon river, near Bristol. 

 The variety is of a smaller size, more pellucid, and of a 

 paler colour, and was presented to me by Mr. Dillwyn as 

 Irish. Miiller's specimens (if this shell be the long-sought- 

 for H. polita of that author) may have been bleached, and 

 conveyed to the habitat mentioned by him (on the banks of 

 torrents in Lombardy) by the waters of a flood. 



17. RUFESCENS. 



Animal nigro-griseum. Tentacula superiora crassiora, vald^ 

 divergentia. 



Testa depressior, glabra, striata, subcarinata, rufescenti- 



cornea. Anfractus 6. Apertura subrotundo-lunata, 



intiis marginata : peristomio subreflexo. Umbilicus pa- 



tulus. 



Long. 0.25. — Diam. 0.5. 



Helix rufescens. Penn. Brit. Zool. 4. p. 134. Mont. 

 Test. Brit. p. 420. t. 23. /. 2. Maton ^ Rackett in 

 Linn. Trans. 8. p. I96. Dillzv. Cat. 2. p. 895. 



hispida, jwniores, ett;ar. helvetica. Miill. Verm.2. 



i>. 74. 



Common in hedges, gardens, &c. In every stage of 

 growth, from half a line upwards, it is smooth, and not in 

 the least hispid ; and it is surprising that Montagu, who has 

 been followed in this respect by succeeding British authors, 

 should have confounded this with the following well-known 

 Continental species. 



It is either the glabella or hispida, var. /3. of Draparnaud, 

 but I am rather inclined to think the former. 



2x2 18. Hispida. 



