156 Rev. R. Sheppard's Account 



^ gitiatus, et spiris sensim minoribus. Apertura edentula, 

 margine nee retlexo, nee diverso colore. 



In young shells the whorls do not decrease gradually, the two 

 first being much smaller in proportion to the rest. 



Found abundantly in the summer season by brushing long 

 grass and bushes in Middlewood Offton ; and in a grove at So- 

 mersham, on the left side of the road leading from that place to 

 Flowton. Amongst dead leaves at the roots of grass in Friston 

 wood. 



In Essex it is taken upon trees on Wrabness cliff, at Ramsey 

 decoy, and in Stourwood. 



It is not a little singular that the Essex specimens should be 

 uniformly darker than those found in Suffolk. The Pupa eden- 

 tula of Draparnaud has only five volutions, and possibly may be 

 the young of this species. 



25. Turbo sexdentatus. Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. viii. p. 183. 

 Under stones and pieces of wood at Levington, Spexhall and 



Offton, but by no means common. 



In Essex, at the roots of grass by the River Stour ; at Wrab- 

 ness near Bradfield-bay ; and in the open part of the Glebe 

 grove, whence a specimen was procured with a dark band fol- 

 lowing the order of the volutions. 



The habitat of this species, as given by Montagu, is clearly a 

 wrong one, and must mislead those who search for it. He pro- 

 bably found it creeping up the Iris pseudacorus, in consequence 

 of its having been conveyed to such a situation by the waters of 

 a flood. 



26. Turbo nautileus. Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. viii. p. I69. 

 In both the Glebe ponds near the Parsonage at Spexhall ; in 



the pond at Offton, v/here Tellina stagnicola is found ; and in a 

 pond in Dynes's meadow, near Nettlestead Church. 



In 



