120 The Shell-Collector’s Handbook. 
v. fulva (Mog.): Shell dark brown or brownish, with 
some transverse whitish lines. 
v. bizonalis (Moqg.): Shell whitish, with two con- 
tinuous bands above, and several below. 
v. ornata (Picard): Shell smaller, whitish, with one 
brown continuous band above, and two to six below. 
(= var. ¢., ornata, Picard, Moll Somme., 1840, p. 230). 
v. Gigaxii (Charp.); Shell smaller, more depressed, 
reddish, spotted above, and marked by two bands below. 
v. subscalaris (Jeff.): Shell conical, whorls more 
convex. (B.C. vol.1., p. 214). 
v, major ((Jeff.): Shell larger. (B.C. vol. i. p. 214). 
HELIX ERICETORUM, MULLER, 
SHELL depressed, circular, semitransparent, greyish or 
whitish, banded with chestnut brown; whorls six;. 
spire slightly produced, apex obtuse, brown; suture 
deepish; periphery not keeled; aperture nearly circular ; 
umbilicus large, open, exposing three or four whorls. Diam. 
maj. 17; min. 143; alt. 8 mill. Animal reddish-brown or 
yellowish-grey, with colourless tubercles. 
Habitat.—Dry heaths and downs ; chalky districts near 
the sea. 
v. lutescens (Mog.): Shell dirty-yellowish, unicolour. 
v. leucozona (Mog.): Shell reddish, with one white 
line on the last whorl, and often several white and 
brown lines below. 
v. alba (Charp.): Shell entirely white. 
v. major (Locard): Shell large; diam. 20-10 mill. 
v. minor (Moq.): Shell smaller. 
v. instabilis (Zegl.): Shell smaller, or a darker colour, 
and sometimes streaked or spotted; spire more raised ; 
umbilicus narrower (= WH. instadilis, Ziegler.) B. C. 
Wid. Ps. 217. 
m. disjunctum (Turton): Whorls disjointed. 
