142 The Shell-Collector’s Handbook. 
CYCLOSTOMA ELEGANS, MULLER 
‘SHELL oval, greyish or yellowish-brown, irregularly streaked 
and blotched with purplish-brown, ridged by numerous 
ribs running spirally; whorls four and a half, enlarging 
rapidly, tumid; spire, produced, blunt, purplish ; suture 
very deep; aperture subrotund; umbilicus narrow, not 
deep ; operculum shelly. Length 13-14; diam. 83-9 mill. 
Animal dark-greyish brown, bilobed anteriorily ; mantle 
speckled with milk-white on its upper part. 
Haiitat.—Hedgerows, margins of woods, among loose 
stones and moss. 
v. violacea (Des Mouls): Shell violet or brown- 
violet, spotless, bandless, slightly transparent, 
v. purpurascens (Mog.): Shell purplish, with reddish 
bands. 
v. ochroleuca (Des Mouls): Shell yellowish, without 
bands or markings, rather transparent. 
v. aibescens (Des Mouls): Shell whitish, spotless, 
bandless. 
v. pallida (.Woqg.): Shell very pale yellowish, with 
some spots and demi-effaced bands. 
v. marmorata (Lrown): Shell glabrous, unstriated. 
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