HELIX. 



427 



oblique stria3 ; suture impressed ; aperture luuatcly 

 sub-circular, not dilated ; peristome white, narrow, 

 thickened, reflected, with a slightly projecting 

 tooth on the inner edge of the basal portion near 

 the umljilicus ; parietal wall with a sub-prominent, 

 white tooth ; umbilicus open, deep, not wide, ex- 

 hibiting all the volutions, slightly contracted ])y 

 the reflected peristome ; base rounded with the 

 striae distinct, converging into the umbilicus. 

 Greater diameter twenty-seven, lesser twenty- 

 three, height seventeen millimetres. 



From Canada East to Michigan and Maryland. 



Fig. 684. 



H. Sayii. 



Helix? harpa. 



Shell ovately-conic, light horn color ; whorls four, convex ; aperture Innately 

 oval ; peristome simple ; sub-perforate. 



Ileli.r? harpa, Say, Long's Exped. ii. 256, pi. 15, fig. 1 (1824) ; Binney's ed. 29, pi. 74, 



fig. 1. 

 Pupa cost iihita, MiGiiiiLS, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. i. 187 (1844). 

 Bulimns harpa, Pfeiffer, Zeitschr. fiir Malak. 1847, 147; Mon. Hel Viv. ii. 150; in 



Chemnitz, 2(1 cd. No. 30.i, pi. 60, figs. 17 - 19. — Reeve, Con. Icon. No. 596 (1849). 



— BiNNEY, Terr. Moll. ii. 290, pi. 52, fig. .3. — \V. G. Binney, Terr. Moll. iv. 



135. 

 Zoogenites harpa, Morse, Journ. Portl. Soe. i. 32, pi. 1, figs. 1 -14 (1864) ; Am. Nat. i. 



608, figs. 50, 51 (1868}. 



Shell su)3-perforate, ovately conic, transparent, very thin, with 

 coarse, irregular lines of growth, pellucid, light horn 

 color ; spire conical, rather oljtusc ; whorls four, con- 

 vex, the upper ones smooth, the last two with promi- 

 nent, distant, thin, colorless, fold-like ribs, slightly in- 

 clined backwards, the last whorl rounded, somewhat 

 longer than the spire ; columella sub-receding ; aperture 

 Innately oval ; peristome simple, straight, the columel- 

 lar termination briefly reflected above. Greater diam- 

 eter, two mill. ; length, three and a half mill. ; aperture one and 

 two thirds long, one and one fourth millimetres wide. 



Gaspe, Maine, New Hampshire. Originally found by Say on the 

 Expedition to St. Peter's River, &c. Also in British America and 

 Sweden (Mai. Blat. 1867, p. 200). 



Animal small compared to the size of the shell, body and head 

 slate color, eye-peduncles darker, short, thick, bidbous ; eyes large, 



