944 HELIX. 



Helix Lucorum. Pulteney Dorset. Cat. p. 48^ 



Helix variegata. Gmelin, p. 3650. 



Helix, No. 195. Schroeter Einl. ii. p. 230. t. 4. f. 7, 



Cochlea vulgaris. Da Costa Brit. Conch, p. 72. t. 4. f. I, 



Lister Anim. Ang. t. 2. f. 2, and Conch, t. 49. f. 47. 



Gualter, t. 1. f. B. ? Argenvilh, t. 28. f. 3 and II. 



Knorr, iv. t. 27. f. 3. Geve, t. 30. f. 344. Favanne, t. 



62. f. D 2, D 3, and D 4. 

 Inhabits Southern Europe, and is a land shell ; and also Swe- 

 den, but there attains only a much smaller size. Linntsus. 

 Shell about an inch and a quarter long, ai.d the breadth rather 

 exceeds the length ; it has four irregularly creased and wrin- 

 kled whirls, and a semilunar rather elongated aperture, with 

 a white reflected margin ; it varies much in its markings, but 

 is most commonly of a pale dull yellowish brown or ash-co- 

 lour, with darker bands, which are usually more or less 

 broken, and appear mottled all over, or sometimes the co- 

 lour is greyish with two paler bands. 



HiEMASTOMA. 128. Shell imperforate, roundish, 

 of a dark colour transversely banded with 

 white; aperture oblong, with the outer lip 

 broadly marginated and purplish. 



Helix haemastoma. Linnaus S^st. Nat. p. 1247. MuUer 



Verm. ii. p. 78. Born Mas. p. 387. Schroeter Einl. ii. 



p. 160. t. 4. f. 5 and 6. Chemnitz, ix. part 2. p. 122. 



t. 130. f. 1150 and 1151. Gmelin, p. 3650. 

 Helix haematragus. Born Index, p. 400. 

 Lister Conch, t. 1055. f. 2. Seha, iii. t. 40. f. 6 and 7. 



Geve, t. 28. f. 328. Favanne, t. 64. f. A 4. 

 Variety. With the outer lip blackish. 

 Helix melanotragus. Born Mm. p. 388. 

 Lister Conch, t. 45. f. 43. Geve, t. 28. f. 329- Chemnitz, 



ix. t. 130. f. 1152 to 1154. 

 Inhabits the Meridional parts of America. Seba. Ceylon, and 



the Nicobar Islands ; and is a land shell. Chemnitz. 

 Shell about an inch and a half long, and the breadth rather ex- 

 ceeds the length, thick, rather opake, striated, shining, and 

 of a chestnut-colour, with one or sometimes two broad trans- 

 verse white bands, and coated with a yellowish brown epi- 

 dermis ; it has five whirls, of which the body-whirl is almost 

 twice as large as the spire ; the outer lip has a broad reflect- 

 ed lip, which varies from rose-colour to blackish purple. 



