114 The Shell-Collector’s Handbook. 
Habitat—Among grass on the Kent and Surrey 
Downs. 
v. leucoloma (Stabile): Shell small with white peri- 
stome and rib. 
v. rufilabris (Jeff.): Shell smaller with the inside rib 
of a reddish colour. (Westerlund in his “ Fauna Europa” 
describes this var. as “ testa-globoso-depressa, polita, anfr. 
sat lente accrescentes, apert. rotundato-lunata, anguste 
sed alte rufescenti labiata, margine intus rufo-brunneo ; 
d. 8-10, a. 6-8 mm.) 
HELIX RUFESCENS, PENNANT. 
Suet depressed, subglobose, subcarinated, varying in 
colour from ashy-grey to rufous brown, and generally with 
a white band at the periphery; whorls six to seven, con- 
vex, the body-whorl comprising about one-half of the 
shell; spire short, blunt ; aperture semi-elliptical, oblique, 
with a white internal rib; umbilicus narrow, distinct. 
Diam. maj. 14; min. 10; alt.6 mill. Animal dusky ash- 
coloured, with well pronounced tubercles ; dorsal tentacles 
long, slender ; ventral tentacles short. 
Habitat.—Under stones and logs of wood in woods, 
gardens, and hedge-banks. 
v. rubens (Mog.): Shell more or less reddish. (= var. 
4, Bouch. Moll. Pas-de-Cal. p. 46.) 
v.alba (Moq.): Shell entirely white (= var. 1. Bouch. 
loc. cit.) 
v. minor (Jeff.): Shell smaller ; spire more raised. 
f—s._C. vol. 1. p.' 195.) 
HELIX CONCINNA, JEFF. 
CLOSELY allied to Helix hispida, from which it may be 
distinguished by the following characters :—Shell larger, 
