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generally marked with a faint white line near the peri- 
phery ; whorls six to seven, convex, the body-whorl com- 
prising nearly one-half of the shell; spire short, blunt; 
suture rather deep ; aperture lunate, slightly reflected and 
marked with a white or rose-coloured rib; umbilicus 
small, narrow, deep. Diam. maj. 21, min. 18, alt. 13-14 
mill. Animal pale yellowish, covered with greyish tuber- 
eles. 
Habitat—On nettles and in marshy places in the 
Southern Counties. 
v. albida (Taylor): Shell entirely opaque white. 
v. Galloprovincialis (Dup.): Shell with the last 
whorl less depressed, strize finer and more equal, lighter in 
colour; umbilicus narrower; peristome white interiorily, 
reddish exteriorily. (=Helix Galloprovincialis, Dup., 
Mist. Moll. ii., 1848, p. 204). 
v. minor (Mog.): Shell as in preceding var., but 
smaller. 
v.rubescens (Moq.): Shell as in var. Galloprovin- 
cialis, but with the last whorl reddish. 
v. pyramidata (Colb.) : Shell smaller, spire more 
raised, pyramidal. 
HELIX CARTUSIANA, MULLER, 
SHELL depressed, globose, subpellucid, minutely striated : 
whitish horn-colour marked with a milk-white spiral band 
just above the periphery, not so glossy as in H. cantiana ; 
whorls six to seven, the body-whorl comprising nearly one 
half of the shell; spire acute, more depressed than in H. 
cantiana; suture deepish ; aperture lunate with a white 
internal rib; umbilicus minute. Diam. maj. 14; min. 11; 
alt. 74 mill. Animal yellowish, closely tuberculated, each 
tubercle being dotted with brown. 
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