The Shell-Collector’s Handbook. ia 
VERTIGO MINUTISSIMA, HARTMANN. 
SHELL dextral, cylindrical, narrower and smaller than 
V. edentula, elegantly striated, glossy, horn-colour ; whorls 
five and a half, rounded, increasing in size to the third, 
and then continuing of the same breadth; spire produced, 
very obtuse ; suture deepish : aperture oblong, subcircular, 
edentulous, curved inwards towards the centre of the 
lower lip; umbilicus.oblique, narrow. Length 2; diam. 
2 mill.; ap. nearly 2 mill. long. Animal grey, spotted 
with black; mantle greyish-brown. 
Habitat.— Under stones on hillsides. 
