EASTERN PROVINCE INTERIOR REGION SPECIES. 217 



Zoiiites inornatiis. Say. 



Shell depressed; epidermis yellowish horn-color, smooth, shining, 

 with very minute lines, not breaking the smoothness of the j,^^ 299 

 surface; whorls 5; suture not much impressed; aperture 

 trausverse, scarcely oblique, obliquely lunar, with a thick, 

 white testaceous deposit around its whole inner surface, a 

 little distant from the margin ; peristome thin, acute, fragile, 

 its ends somewhat converging, the columellar margin reach- 

 ing to the center of the base, subdilated above; umbilicus 

 small ; base rather flattened, indented in the center. 

 Greater diameter 16, lesser 12^"™; height, G""™. 



Helix inornala, Say, JouTu. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliilad., ii, 371 (1821); Binney's ed., 

 24.-^BiNNEY, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., iii, 419, pi. xxi, fig. 3 (1840); Terr. 

 Moll., ii, 227, pi. xxxiv.— De Kay, N.Y.Moll., 39 (1843).— Adams, Vermont 

 Mollusca, 161 (1842).— Pfeiffeh, Mod. Hel. Viv., i, 84 ; iv, 48.— W. G. Binney, 

 Terr. Moll., "iv, 109.— Morse, Amer.Nat., i, 314, figs. 19, 21,22 (1867). 



ITelix glapliyra, FYFAFFF.n, olim, Symbolje, ii, 29, exel. ayn.fuUginosa ; Mou. Hel. Viv., 

 i, 57. — Reeve, Con. Icon., 667. — Not Say. 



Helix inornata, Binney, not Say, Bland, Anu.N. Y. Lye, vii, 127. 



Hyalina inornata, Tryon, Am. Jouru. Coucli., ii, 249 (1866). 



Zonites inornatiis, W. G. Binney, L. & Fr.-W. Sb., i, 289 (1869) Terr. Moll.,v, 108.— 

 Gould and Binney, Inv. of Mass., ed. 2, 453 (1870). . 



Animal with head, neck, and eye-peduncles bluish-black ; foot whit- 

 ish. Eye-peduncles long and slender. A marginal furrow extending 

 along the edges of the foot, and uniting above and before its posterior 

 termination. Behind the junction is a prominent, longitudinal, bluish- 

 white mucous pore, on the extremity of the foot. A distinct locomotive 

 disk. 



I have received specimens from the mountainous regions of North 

 Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, into 

 the western part of l^ew Eugland, and from the States bordering on 

 the Great Lakes. It may therefore be said to inhabit the Interior Ee- 

 gion and the more elevated parts of the Northern Eegion. It was liv- 

 ing in Post-Pliocene days. 



Fig. 229 represents the usual form of the species. A more glo- 

 bose form is figured in Fig. 230. It was found in the 



Fig. 230. 



mountains near Asheville, Buncombe County, North 

 Carolina, by Dr. Bavenel. 



The shell which is described above is well known in 

 collections, and not easily confounded with any otlier. zonues inomatus, 

 It has been unfortunate in its synonymy, whose history 

 is treated at lengtli and exj>lained in the fourth volume of the Terres- 



