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Say's description is as follows. 



P. AVARA. — Shell covered witli numerous short, robust hairs ; 

 spire convex ; whorls four, regularly rounded, with hardly elevated 

 lines forming grooves, which are much more conspicuous near the 

 mouth ; mouth subreniforra, two projecting, obtuse teeth on the 

 outer lip within, separated by a deep sinus ; outer lip elevated, 

 equal, describing two-thirds of a circle ; pillar-lip elevated, broadly 

 but not profoundly emarginate, concave beneath, and connected to 

 the inner side by an elongated, lamelliform tooth, which is placed 

 obliquely on the penultimate whorl, near the middle of the mouth ; 

 lips almost equally prominent, continued ; umbilicus moderate, not ex- 

 hibiting the volutions, no groove on the penultimate whorl within it. 



Breadth quarter of an inch. Inhabits Florida. Cabinet of the 

 Academy. Animal longer than the breadth of the shell, acute 

 behind, above granulated and blackish, beneath, and each side, 

 white. 



This we found in the orange groves of Mr. Fatio, on the river 

 St. John, East Florida ; it is usually covered with a black, earthy 

 coat, which is probably retained and collected by the hairs. When 

 unencumbered with this vesture, the shell is of a horn-color. It is 

 by no means so common as the preceding species. 



HEIilX UVULIFERA Shuttlewouth vol. ili. p. 20. 



Hdix uvulifera Shuttleworth, Bern. Mitt. 1852, p. 199. 



Chemnitz, ed. 2, ii. 420, pi. cxlviii. figs. 19,20, (1853). 



Pfeiffer, Mon. Hel. Viv. iii. 267. 

 Helix flm-ulifera Eeeve, Con. Icon. No. 699, (Aug. 1852). 

 Hdix auriculata minor Ferussac, Hist. pi. 1. fig. 3? (teste Pfeifier)- 



This species is known in many American 

 cabinets as a small variety of auriculata. 



I have one specimen from Texas, received 

 from Mr. Cuming. 



HELIX VULTUOSA Gould vol. ii. p. 189, pi. xl. a, fig. 4. 



Helix vuliuosn Chemnitz, ed. 2, ii. 365, pi. cxxvii. figs. 10-12. 

 Reeve, Con. Icon. No. 711, (1852). 

 Pfeiffer, Jlon. Hel. Viv. iii. 263. 



