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Helix Trumbulli, Linslet, Shells of Conn. (Sill. Journ. [i], XLVIII. 280), = 



Skenca scrpuloides. See Vol. IV. 125. 

 Helix pelt lucida, Fabricius = Vitrina Angelica. 

 Helix arbustorum. See Vol. IV. 124, and Adams, Cat. Cabinet, 32. Does not 



inhabit America. 

 Helix hieroglyphica, Beck, Ind. Am. Sept. ? See Vol. IV. 124. 

 Helix dornestica, Strom. See Vitrina Angelicas. 

 Helix dealbata, Say = Bulimulus. 

 Helix corpuloides. See Vol. IV. 124. 



Helix Bonplandi, Lamarck. See Vol. IV. 124. Jay, Cat., ed. 2, 33. Ten- 

 nessee. 

 Helix haliotoides, Fabricius, Fauna Grbenl., 390 (1780) = Sigaretus. 

 Helix heligmoidea, D'Orb. (Ophiogyra), is said to have been found by Mr. H. 



Moores in 1849, in the Zoot Hills of the west slope of the Sierra Nevada, about 



five miles south of Coloma, and about a quarter of a mile south of Weber Creek, 



under an old log ; a single old specimen. 



The species is described from Guyaquil, Columbia, South America, 

 Helix virginea, Wood, Ind. Suppl., p. 21, Fig. 19 = Mela.nia Virginica. 

 Helix urceus, Muller, Dillwyn, Cat., II. 918 = Ampullaria. 

 Helix fuscata, Born, Mus. Vind., 1780, 390, PI. XVI. Fig. 17. Virginia. 

 Helix irrorata, Say — H. lactea, Muller. See VoL IV. 124. Does not now 



exist in America. 

 Helix rastellum, Beck, Ind., 8. Am. s. 

 Helix pcrsonata, Lamarck, Ohio. Jay, Cat., ed. 2, 36, 1836, and Villa, Disp., 



14, 1841. 

 Helix punctata, Dillwyn, Cat., II. 899, is from Martinique, not Virginia. 

 Helix rudcrata, Studer, Anthony, Ohio Cat., No. 31 = striatella? 

 Helix variabilis, Drap., North America. See Forbes, Brit. Ass. Rep., 1840, 



145; see also Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., III. 489 ; Ferussac, Tabl. Syst., 48. 

 Helix {Eurycratcra) lineolata, Lam., is erroneously quoted from North America by 



Beck (Index, 45). 

 Helix Stecnstrupii, Morch. Greenland. I can find no description of it. Vide 



Vol. IV. 117. 

 Helix subcarinata, Wood (Index, Suppl., PI. VII. Fig. 13) = Leptoxis. 

 Helix dissimil is, Wood (Index, Suppl., PI. VII. Fig. 18) = Melantho decisa. 

 Helix decisa, Wood (Index, Suppl., PI. VII. Fig. 19) = Lioplax subcarinata. 

 Helix bidentifera, Phillips (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., I. 27, 1841), North 



Carolina = H. barbula, Charp., of Portugal (1. c. p. 133). 

 Helix palustris, Rackett = Limncea palustris. 

 Helix angulata, Rackett = Planorbis bicarinatus. 

 Helix albella, Dillwyn, Cat., II. 890. Virginia. 



Fossil Species of Helix. 

 Dr. Meek furnishes the following list of fossil species : — 



Helix Leidyi, Hall & Meek, Am. Acad. Arts and Sci., Boston, V. 394, new ser. 

 Helix amplexus, Meek & Hayden, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., 1861, 431. 

 = Planorbis amplexus, M. & H., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., 1857, 135. 

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