110 The Shell-Collector’s Handbook. 
HELIX NEMORALIS, LINN. 
SHELL subglobose, striated, banded or unicolor; whorls 
five to five and a half, convex; spire short, blunt; aper- 
ture rounded, semilunar ; outer lip strong, reddish-brown ; 
inner lip thin, reddish-brown or chocolate coloured ; um- 
bilicus indistinct. Diam. maj. 25, min. 24, alt. 15 mill. 
Animal dark-brown, marked with closely-set tubercles. 
Habitat.—W oods, hedgerows, and gardens. 
. albescens (Moq.): Shell whitish. 
. Studeria (Moq.): Shell lilac. 
.Tubella (Mogq.): Shell pink. 
. castanea (Mog.): Shell brown. 
. Olivacea (Gassies): Shell olive-brown. 
. Petiveria (Mogq.): Shell fauve. 
. libellula (Risso): Shell yellow. 
.aurantia (7. D. A. Cockerell): Shell orange-col- 
oured. 
v. hyalozonata (Taylor): Shell with transparent 
bands. 
v. roseolabiata (Taylor): Peristome and rib pink or 
pale-brown. 
v. albolabiata (Von. Martens): Shell with mouth and 
rib white. 
v.interrupta (Moq.): Shell with the bands inter- 
rupted. 
v. bimarginata (Moqg.): Shell with the peristome 
brown exteriorily, and white interiorily. 
v. lurida (Mogq.): Shell with half-effaced bands. 
v. compressa (Terver) : Shell with the spire de- 
pressed. 
v. conoidea (Jenner): Shell with the spire shaped like 
an elevated cone. Diam. 22-18 mm. : 
v. ponderosa (Malm.): Shell very thick, heavy, large ; 
yellowish-white underneath, umbilicus often large. 
v. major (Fér.): Shell very large. 
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