946 HELIX. 



VERSICOLOR. 131. Shell imperforate, sub-globular, 

 white, with transverse bands and interme- 

 diate lines ; pillar somewhat twisted and 

 rose-coloured. 



Helix versicolor. Born Mus. p. 386. t. 16. f . 9 and 10. 



Gmelirif p. 3651. 

 Helix, No. 207. Schroeter Einl. ii. p. 9,35. 



Inhabits 



Born has described this shell to be ten lines long and eleven 

 broad, sub-globular, smooth, with the body-whirl ventricose, 

 and the other whirls forming a convex obtuse spire ; colour 

 white, with alternate broader and narrower, brown, rose, and 

 sulphur-coloured transverse stripes. 



APERTA. 132. Shell imperforate, sub-globular, lon- 

 gitudinally striated, with three whirls, and 

 the body-whirl and aperture very large ; pil- 

 lar slightly twisted. 



Helix aperta. Bor7i Mus. p. 387. t. 15. f. 19 and 20. 

 Gmelin, p. 3651. 



Helix neritoides. Chemnitz, ix. part 2. p. 150. t. 133. 

 f. 1204 and 1205. 



Helix, No. 205. Schroeter Einl. ii. p. 234. 

 Inhabits the island of St. Croix. Chemnitz. 

 Shell about an inch long, and the length and breadth are nearly 



equal ; it has three or three and a half whirls, of which the 



body-whirl is very large, and the spire small and depressed ; 



it is obsoletely striated longitudinally, and coated with a 



brownish olive epidermis. 



FUSCA. 133. Shell imperforate, thin, pellucid, 

 smooth, with five or six whirls, which are 

 obsoletely wrinkled longitudinally ; aperture 

 lunated. 



Helix fusca. Montagu Test. p. 424. t. 13. f. 1. Maton 

 and Racket, in Lin. Trans, viii. p. 209. 



Inhabits woods in Devonshire ; but is a scarce shell. Montagu. 



Shell hardly a quarter of an inch long, and three-eighths of an 

 inch in diameter, of a reddish horn-colour ; Montagu says 

 it has much the habit of H. rufescens, but is more pellucid, 

 not so much wrinkled, and is at once distinguished by not 

 having any umbilicus. 



