The Shell-Collector’s Handbook. 99 
SUCCINEA OBLONGA, DRAP. 
SHELL small, oval, ventricose, thin, fragile, light horn- 
coloured; whorls four, convex; suture deepish; spire 
produced, apex blunt; mouth oval and about the same 
length as the spire; somewhat resembles in shape 
Limnea truncatula, but is distinguished from this species 
by the absence of the reflected lip on the columella. 
Hatitat.—-Edges of ditches, near the coast, and on sand- 
dunes near the sea. 
v. humilis (Droiiet): Shell smaller, less elongated; 
aperture more rounded. (=Succinea humilis, Droiiet.) 
v. arenaria (Bouch): Shell oval, slightly oblong, 
ventricose, striz very fine, thin, solid, slightly trans- 
parent, deep amber or reddish-horn coloured; spire 
composed of from one and a half to four whorls, very 
swollen and slightly twisted, the last whorl large; suture 
very deep; apex slightly pointed; aperture rounded- 
oval, exceeding in length one half of the total height of 
the shell. Height 6-8 mill.; diam. 5-6 mill. (=Succinea 
arenaria. Bouch. Moll., Pas-de-Calais, 1838, p. 54.) 
