74 COLIMACEA. 



tinct and transparent ; the apex for the most part is black. A 

 beautiful variety is of a pale flesh-colour, with a white central 

 band. 



We met with a lusus of this species (pi. VIII, f. 4, 5) at 

 Farbane, King's County, Ireland, with the volutions of the 

 spire subscalariform, and the whole surface of a uniform red- 

 dish-brown colour, with a white band round the centre of the 

 body, and continuing round the base of the volutions of the 

 spire ; and the apicial volutions rather obtuse. 



The H. virgata is a local species both in England and Ire- 

 land, but most plentiful where it occurs. It does not appear to 

 extend further north than the central counties of England. In 

 Ireland, I met with it plentifully in the King's County, Queen's 

 County, and Kildare. At Ballinakill, I found some very large 

 and beautiful specimens. My esteemed friend T. W. Warren, 

 Esq., of Dublin, possesses the most beautiful and varied series 

 of this shell, which any collection can boast of. The favourite 

 habitat of this species is dry, sandy situations. 



It has been remarked, that this shell never associates with 

 the H. eriectorum. 



25. Helix caperata, pi. VIII, f. 6, 7. 



Helix caperata, Montagu, Test. Brit., p. 430, pi. 11, f . 11 ; 

 Turton, Brit. Fau., p. 188; lb., Man., p. 42, f. 32; Maton and 

 Rackett, Linn. Tr., VIII, p. 196; Brown, Wernerian Mem., II, 

 p. 536; Fleming, Edin. Ency., VII, p. 80; lb., Brit. An., p. 

 262 ; Jeffreys, Linn. Tr., XIII, p. 334 ; Forbes, Mai. Mon., p. 

 8 ; Thompson, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., VI, p. 29 ; Brown, 

 lUust. Conch., p. 49, pi. 17, f. 37 and 39 ; Helix striata, Dra- 

 pernaud, p. 106, pi. 6, f. 18 to 21 ; Lamarck, An. San. Vert., 

 VI, pt. 2nd, p. 93; Rossmassler, V, p. 28, pi. 26, f. 354; Helix 

 intersecta, Brard, p. 39, pi. 2, f. 7- 



Shell subpellucid, subdepressed ; spire with five flattened vo- 

 lutions, and terminating in a somewhat obtuse, nearly black 

 apex ; body provided with a subcarinated belt round its centre, 

 the base with a large and deep umbilicus ; aperture semilunar ; 

 outer and inner lips thin, the latter not reflected over the um- 

 biUcus ; generally of an ash-colour, or yellowish, and entirely 

 covered with strong, regular, close-set, longitudinal striae; supe- 

 rior portion of the body usually provided with a brown spiral 

 band, which is continuous on the base of the volutions of the 



