124 Binney on Terrestrial MoUusks. 



could be traced to a nursery, the proprietor of which had import- 

 ed many fruit-trees and bushes from France, and had probably 

 brought over this stray species in the matting around their roots. 

 (Anthony.) 



Helix Bonplandi Lamark, vid. vol. i. p. 159. 



Helix corpuloides Mont, is quoted from Boston, without description, 

 among DeKay's extra limited species. On the page of Silliman's 

 Journal, to which he refers, it is stated by Gould to be a spe- 

 cies of " Delphinoidea" originally described as Helix. 



Helix harpa Say is a Bulimus. 



Helix dealbata Say is a Bulimus. 



Helix depicta, Grateloup. vid. vol. i. p. 159. 



Helix domestica, Strom, vid. Vitrina Angelicce. 



Helix hieroghjphica Beck, Ind. p. 8. " Am. Sept.? " No descrip- 

 tion is given. The species is unknown to Pfeiffer. Vid. Mon. 

 i. 434. 



Helix hispida Linnaeus, Canada ? 



Helix irrorata. Shell impei'forate, depressed, subglobular, pale 

 reddish-brown, with very numerous small white spots, and about 

 lour deeper brown obsolete bands ; whorls rounded, nearly five 

 in number, wrinkles obsolete on the body whorl, more distinct 

 on the spire ; spire depressed, convex \ suture declining much 

 near the mouth ; aperture on the side of the labrum, within 

 somewhat livid ; labrum reflected but not flattened, and not ab- 

 ruptly contracting the aperture, white before and yellowish 

 behind ; near the junction with the columella is a callus, which 

 does not rise into an angle. 



Length from the apex to the base of the columella, three-fifths 

 of an inch nearly. Greatest breadth one and one-tenth of an 

 inch. Inhabits Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Cab- 

 inet of Mr. William Hyde. 



This species may be compared with the H. lactea Miiller and Fe- 

 russac ; the spire is rather more prominent, the white spots, or 

 rather abbreviated lines are similar in form, size, and number, but 

 its labrum preserves the same color with the exterior ot the siiell, 

 and the livid tint of the inner portion of the body whorl is vei'y 



