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Helix fllva (The Top shaped Snail). 

 Figures 67 and 68. 



67. ee. 



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This pretty, shining, smoolh, and polished shell is 

 trochiforin. There are six convolutions, which are 

 convex, but very narrow. Horn -coloured ; aperture 

 small and crescent-shaped, very minute umbilicus, 

 w hich is hidden in the older examples by the reflection 

 of the columella. 



Diameter from a tenth to a sixth of an inch. • Large 

 specimens in this neighbourhood are an eighth of an 

 inch in diameter. 



The shell appears to be darker coloured and more 

 glossy in damp situations. 



The colour ui' the animal is grey. 



Described by Dr. Lister, in 1678. 



Helix fulva is very active, crawling at a rapid pace. 



There are two varieties of this species, viz.: — 



Var. Alderii, recognized by Mr. Alder, of Newcastle. 

 Smaller and darker. 



Var. Mortonii, noticed by Mr. Jeffreys, of Swansea. 

 Depressed, both sides of the shell being nearly equally 

 convex. 



An inhabitant of woods and hedges, under leaves, 

 stones, and amongst moss. 



In this neighbourhood it is not abundant; the most 

 common locality is at the foot of the svpsum hill at 

 Thrumpton. Found also at Highfield House, Stanton - 

 on-lhe-Wolds, Wollaton. and un Oxton bogs. 



Other recorded localities are— Penzance (Millett), 

 Cornwall, Devonshire, Wiltshire, South Wales, Somer- 

 setshire, Tenby, Crymlin Burrows, and Marino, near 

 Swansea (JeftVt j^), Kent and Dorset (Montagu), Essex 



