100 The Shell-Collector’s Handbook. 
VITRINA PELLUCIDA, MULL. 
SHELL glassy-green, depressed, thin, glossy ; whorls three 
to four, body-whorl very large; spire very short; mouth 
somewhat oval; umbilicus wanting. Height of shell ,:th 
inch; breadth ¢ inch. Animal elongated, too large to be 
contained entirely within the shell, pinkish-grey in colour; 
mantle finely spotted with black. 
Habitat—Among moss and dead leaves in woods and 
hedge-banks. 
v. depressiuscula (Jeff:): Shell rather oval, and 
flatter on both sides ; spire scarcely raised above the level 
of the last whorl. (= V. depressa and V. Draparnaldi, 
Jeff. in Linn. Trans. xvi., pp. 326, 327.) 
v. Dillwynii (Jeff.): Shell nearly globular, with 
the last whorl very convex; spire more prominent. (= J. 
Dillwynii, Jefir. l. ¢., p. 506). 
