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rent amher colour which gives to the genus its name. The 

 common size is little more than half an inch. 8. oblong a 

 lives near the sea-side, as well as inland, burying itself in 

 sand in winter. Its shell is smaller than that of 8. piitrisj 

 and has the spire more produced, and the whorls more 

 rounded. 



