HELIX. 109 



The label written during the last few years of Say's life 

 shows conclusively his ignorance of the species. 



PfeifFer, Deshayes, Chemnitz, and Reeve have con- 

 founded H. inornata with this species, even quoting in 

 some instances Binney's figure of inornata in the Boston 

 Journal, which represents an entirely smooth shell. Pfeif- 

 fer also quotes H. rufa DeKay as a synonym of Icevigata. 

 It seems rather to be the young of some other species. 



Reeve figured Icevigata under the name of inornata, de- 

 scribing it as striate in the text. 



Much confusion regarding the species of this group has 

 existed also among American collectors, who have de- 

 pended for the names of their shells on their friends rather 

 than on descriptions. 



The species under consideration is at once distinguished 

 from all the others of the group by the fact of its being 

 the only one furnished with striae on the upper surface. 



It has also been found in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, 

 Arkansas, North Carolina, and Florida. 



PfeiflTer mentions a large variety from Florida. Reeve's 

 fig. 672 may perhaps represent it. 



For the views of Bland see the remarks on the follow- 

 ing species. 



HELIX INORNATA Say vol. ii. p. 227, pi. xxxiv. 



Helix inornata Say (Binney's ed.) p. 24. 



Helix glaphyra V Pfeiffer, Symb. il. 29, (excl. H.Juliyinosa); Mon. i. 57; nee. 

 Reeve, Bland. 



This species has been described and figured in America 

 for many years, and is now well understood in American 

 collections. During the last year it has been referred to 

 IcBvig-ata by Bland, (N. Y. Lye. vi. 352). In the remarks 

 under cellaria his views will be given. 



Pfeiffer gives Say's description, not having seen any 

 authentic specimen. The shell described by him as glaph- 



