912 HELIX. 



Helix Pisaiia. Muller Verm. ii. p. 60. Chemnitz, ix. 



part 2. p. 139. t. 132. f. 1186 and 1187.? Gmelin, p. 



3631. 

 Helix media. Gmelin, p. 3640. 

 Helix virgata. Montagu Test. p. 415. t. 24. f. 1. Maton 



qnd Racket, in Lin. Trans, viii. p. 195. Dorset Cat. 



p. 53. t. 20. f. 7. 

 Helix lineata. Olivi Adr. p. 177- 

 Helix zonaria, Var. Pennant Zool. iv. p. 138. t. 85. f. 



133 A. 

 Helix zonaria. Donovan, ii. t. Qo. 

 Helix, No. 229. Schroeter Einl. ii. p. 241. t. 4. f. 8.f 

 Cochlea virgata. Da Costa Brit. Conch, p. 79- t. 4. f. 7. 

 Lister Conch, t. 59. f- 56. Petiver Gaz. 1. 17. f. 6, and t. 



52. f. 12. Gualter, t. 2. f. L. Schroeter Erdconch. t. 



2. f. 22, and f. 22 a. 

 Inhabits England, on dry banks and in sandy barren places. 



Pennant, S^c. France and Spain. Lister. Italy. Muller. 

 Shell about half, or five-eighths of an inch long, and the length 

 and breadth are equal ; it is white with three or four red- 

 dish brown bands on the body-whirl, of which the broadest 

 is extended to the summit of the spire ; the uppermost 

 whirls are produced, by which and its smaller size this spe- 

 cies may be distinguished from H. strigata ; the outer lip 

 has more or less of a reddish tinge, and the rib which runs 

 parallel to its inner margin is narrow, and considerably ele- 

 vated. 



NITIDA. 59. Shell nmbilicated, pellucid, glossy, 

 and convex on both sides, with five depres- 

 sed horn-coloured w^hirls ; aperture large. 



Hehx nitida. Muller Verm. ii. p. 32. Chemnitz, ix. part 



2. p. 103. 1. 127. f. 11 30 and 1131.? 

 Helix lucida. Pulteneys Dorset Cat. p. 47. Montagu 



Test. p. 425. t. 23. f. 4. 

 Helix nitens. Gmelin, p. 3633. Maton and Racket, in 



Lin. Trans, viii. p. 198. t. 5. f. 7- Dorset Cat. p. 54. 



t. 19. f. 22. 

 La Luisante. Geoffroy, p. Sd, No. 7. t. 2. 

 Petiver Gaz. t. 93. f. 14. Gualter, t. 2. f. G. Argen- 



ville, t. 28. f. 4. Strom, in Act. Nidros. iii. t. 6. f. 16. 

 Inhabits dry banks as well as moist woods, in England ; com- 

 mon. Petiver, S^c. France. Geoffroy. Denmark. Muller, 

 Shell sometimes two-tenths of an inch long, and half an inch 

 in diameter, but is generally smaller ; it is remarkably pel- 



