270 • HELICID^. 



9. V. MiNUTis'siMA'^j Hartmann. 



Pupa minutissima, Hartm. in Neue Alp. i. p, 220, pi. ii. f . 5 ; F. & H. iv. 

 p. 104, pi. cxxx. f. 2. 



Body slightly narrow and rounded in front, very gradually 

 attenuated and somewhat blunt behind, finely shagreened, 

 greyish-slatecolour, streaked or dotted with black : mantle 

 greyish-brown and of a lighter hue than the upper part of the 

 body : tentacles greatly diverging, separated by a narrow groove, 

 very tumid at their base, broadly edged with black ; bidbs 

 slightly globular : foot of a paler colour (sometimes milk-white) 

 at the sides and underneath, with a faint tinge of yeUow 

 towards the middle of the sole, ending in a triangular and 

 blunt tail. 



Shell oblong, nearly cylindrical, rather solid, semitrans- 

 parent and glossy, yellowish-brown or horncolour of different 

 shades, marked with strong, close-set, obliquely transverse and 

 rib-like stritB : jperijjhery rounded, but slightly compressed, 

 with a tendency to angularity : epidermis thin : tuhorls 5|, 

 moderately convex, gradually increasing in size, the last but 

 two being somewhat the broadest of all, the body whorl occupy- 

 ing about two-fifths of the shell : spire long, very abrupt and 

 blunt at the point : suture deep : mouth shaped as in V. eden- 

 tula, and (in British specimens) equally destitute of teeth : 

 outer lip thin, white, and reflected : umbilicus small, narrow 

 and obhque. L. 0-07. B. 0-035. 



Habitat : Under stones on hills in a few scattered 

 places in Great Britain^ and which are as follows : — 

 Skye (MacaskiU) ; Balmerino, Fifeshire (Chalmers) ; 

 Arthur^s Seat^ Edinburgh (E. Forbes) ; Sunderland, 

 South Hylton on the Wear, and Pontefract on mag- 

 nesian limestone (Howse) ; Went Vale, Yorkshire (Ash- 

 ford) ; Durdham Downs near Bristol, and Lulworth in 

 Dorsetshire (J. G. J.) ; Undercliff, Isle of Wight (More). 

 As an upper tertiary fossil it has been found at Clacton 

 and Copford in our eastern counties. It is widely dif- 

 fused on the Continent fi'om Finland to Lombardy and 



* Exceedingly minute. 



