The Shell-Collector’s Handbook. 137 
jong, 3 wide. Animal reddish-grey; foot ashy-grey, 
speckled with white. 
Habitat.—W oods and hedges, and on the bark of willow 
trees. 
v. Nelsoni (Jeff.): Shell rather more slender than the 
usual form, almost totally devoid of striation, and trans- 
lucent, the axis being visible through the shell; the last 
whorls tinged with a very pale reddish-brown passing into 
whitish in the upper part. 
JLAUSILIA LAMINATA, MONT. 
SHELL large, fusiform, thin, highly polished, finely striated: 
yellowish-brown; whorls twelve, compressed; spire tur- 
retted, apex obtuse ; suture oblique, shallow ; aperture oval, 
pyriform, with two very strong plaits on the base of the 
penultimate whorl, and three or four labial plaits 
which are distinctly visible from the outside; peris- 
tome white, thick; basal crest slight; umbilicus small ; 
clausilium with a marginal notch near its base. Length 17 ; 
diam. 4 mill. Ap. 44 mill. long, 3 wide. Animal greyish- 
brown. 
Habitat—Among decayed leaves in beech woods, and 
on the bark of trees. 
v. pellucida (Jeff.): Shell thinner, more transparent, 
and very glossy. (B.C. vol. i., p. 285.) 
v. albinos (Mog.): Shell entirely white. 
