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Inhabits shady places in woods and hedgerows and 

 damp spots l^y the side of rivers, among willows, 

 alders, &c. Although widely distributed over Great 

 Britain, this is a local species. It is lazy in its move- 

 ments and somewhat irritable. When crawling it 

 carries its shell in a slanting position. The epiphragm 

 is extremely thin. 



Var. I. flavesce7is. — Shell yellowish-white, usually bandless, 

 not uncommon. 



Var. 2. major. — Shell larger, spire considerably depressed, 

 various localities. 



Var. 3. alpestris, Ziegler. — Shell much smaller, spire more 

 produced. Hoddesden, Herts, on marshes by the side of the 

 River Lea (Pickering), B.C. Near Banbury, Oxfordshire (D. 

 Pidgeon), y.C, vol. i. p. 56. 



Var. 4. fusca, Ferussac. — Shell dark brown, with or without 

 the band, very thin and transparent. Luna, East Zetland, B.C. 



Var. 5. albida. — Shell white, found by Mr. Whitwham of 

 Huddersfield, near Settle, Yorkshire (fide J. W. Taylor, Ed. 

 J.C). 



Monstrosities occasionally occur, having the spire 

 reversed, or sometimes much produced. 



7. H. Cantia'na,* Montagu. Pl. VIII. 



Body oblong, of a pale yellowish colour faintly tinged with 

 pink in front, closely covered with greyish tubercles ; tentacles 

 long, upper pair brownish or bluish-grey, widely diverging, 

 thickish at their base, gradually tapering towards the bulbs 

 which are rather small and yellowish at their tips ; lower pair 

 paler in colour ; foot slightly truncate in front ; tail tumid, 

 angular, keeled, with grooved margins ; lingtial ribbon with 125 

 rows of 81 teeth = 10,125. 



Shell subglobose, somewhat compressed above and below, 

 rather thin and brittle, semitransparent, somewhat glossy, pale 



* Kentish. 



