118 The Shell-Collector’s Handbook. 
v. alba (Shuttl.): Shell white or pale yellow in 
colour. | 
HELIX VIRGATA, DA COSTA. 
SHELL somewhat globular, conical, white or cream-colour, 
marked with a single dark-brown band in the middle of 
the body-whorl, and with several bands beneath ; whorls 
six, convex, the body-whorl comprising more than one-half — 
of the shell; spire sub-elevated, apex brownish; aperture 
purplish-brown, rounded, ovate ; umbilicus narrow, deep. 
Diam. maj. 19; min. 17; alt. 12 mill. Animal pink or 
_ yellowish white; tentacles dark grey. 
Habitat.—Sandhills near the coast. 
v. albicans (Grate/): Shell entirely white or whitish, 
without markings. 
v. rufula (Mog.): Shell deep red. 
v. bifasciata (Bouch.): Shell white, with two brown 
continuous bands above, and several bands, more or less 
entire, below. 
v. leucozona (Taylor): Shell violet-brown or reddish- 
brown, with a white zone at the periphery, and sometimes 
with a paler area around the umbilicus. 
v. ochroleuca (Mogq.): Shell white, with a large yellow 
band above, and several semi-eftaced bands below. 
v. nigrescens (Gratel): Shell with some bands and 
spots of a black-brown colour (= var. 5. nigrescens, 
Gratel. Moll. Land. 1829.) 
v. tessellata (Bouch.): Shell with some interrupted 
bands above and below. 
v. lutescens (Mogq.): Shell entirely yellowish. 
v. pelluscens (Shuttl.): Shell extremely thin, sub- 
transparent (= Helix pelluscens, Shuttlew ; in Coll. Blam. 
Reg. Cat., 1848, p. 315.) 
v. hy pozonata (Moq.): Shell white, unicolor above, 
with several bands below. 
