140 The Shell-Collector’s Handbook. 
ACHATINA ACICULA, MULLER. 
Suett fusiform, cylindrical, thin, very glossy, faintly 
striated, white; whorls five and a half to six, rapidly 
enlarging, body-whorl comprising about one-half of the 
shell; spire attenuated, obtuse; suture oblique, deep; 
aperture lanceolate, acutely angulated above, notched 
deeply at its base; outer lip flexuous; inner lip thin; 
umbilicus absent. Length 42; diam. 1; mill. Ap. 2 mill. 
long, ? wide. Animal white; tentacles eyeless. 
Habitat.—In gravel pits, and at the roots of grass and 
trees. 
