886 HELIX. 



Helix Scarabaeus. Linnaus Si/st. Nat. p. 1241. Born 



Mus. p. 3Qo, and Vign. at p. 364. f. a. Schroeter Einl. 



ii. p. 122. Chemnitz, ix. part 2. p. 179- Gmelin, p. 



3613. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 290. Burrow's Elements, 



p. 169. I. 20. f. 1. 

 Helix Pythia. Midler Verm. ii. p. 88. 

 Bulimus Scarabaeus. Bruguiere Enc. Meth. p. 340. 

 Scarabaeus Imbrium. De Moritfort Conch, ii. p. 306. 



Leach Zool. Misc. p. 96. t. 42. 

 Variety A. Shell larger, of a yellowish white colour dotted 

 with brown. 

 Bonanni Rec. 3. f. 385, and Kirch, f. 370. Lister Conch. 



t. 577. f. 31. Gualter, t. 4. f. S. Argenville, t. 9- f. T. 



Klein Ost. t. 1. f. 23. Knorr, vi. t. 19. f. 2 and 3. Fa- 



vanne, t. 65. f. D 1. Chemnitz, ix. t. 136. f. 1249 and 



1250. 

 Variety B. Shell smaller, of an uniform reddish or purplish 

 brown colour. 

 Bonanni Rec. and Kirch. 3. f. 44. Lister Conch, t. 577. 



f. 32. Klein Ost. t. 1. f. 24. Favanne, t. 65. f. D 2, 



and D 4. Chemnitz, ix. t. 136. f. 1251 to 1253. 

 Junior. Without any teeth on the outer lip. 



Rumphius, t. 27. f. I. Petiver Amb. t. 12. f. 8. 

 Inhabits the mountains of Asia. Linnaus. Among rotten 

 leaves and wood, on the mountains and coasts of Amboyna. 

 Rumphius. China. Humphreys. 

 Shell commonly about an inch and a quarter long, and three 

 quarters of an inch broad, but the Variety B is three or four 

 lines shorter, and is broader in proportion to the length ; it 

 has two obsolete opposite longitudinal keels, which on each 

 whirl have generally a brown spot on one side, and a white 

 one on the other ; the aperture is white and narrow, and has 

 four strong teeth on the outer, and three on the pillar-lip. 



AFRA. 2. Shell ovate, thick, obliquely striated, and 

 the aperture five-toothed. 



Helix Afra. Gmelin, p. 3651. 



Bulimus pedipes. Bruguiere Enc. Meth. p. 340. 



Le Pietin. Adanson Senegal, p. 1 1 . t. 1 . f. 4. 

 Inhabits salt-water pools among the rocks on the coasts of Go- 



ree. Adanson. 

 Shell about a quarter of an inch long, and three-fourths as 



broad, with six whirls, of which the body-whirl is ventricose, 



and the spire very small ; on the body-v\ hirl there are said to 



be twenty-one oblique striae, which are reduced to eight on 



