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large ; mouth oval, angulated above ; umbilicus none ; operculum 

 oval, angulated above, closely fitting. Length J inch. Streams, 

 ditches, canals. B. feiitaciilata}^ 



(b) Shell conoid, swollen towards the base, thin, subtransparent, 

 yellowish-horn coloured; whorls four to five, tumid, separated 

 by a deep suture ; mouth nearly circular, less angulated above 

 than in B. tentaculata ; umbilicus small, distinct ; operculum nearly 

 circular. Length \ inch. Ditches, canals, and sluggish rivers. 

 More local than B. tentaculata. B. Lcachii}^ 



4. Hydrobia. — Operculum horny, thin ; eyes placed on 

 tubercles. 



{a) Shell ovoid, subopaque, thin, yellowish-horn coloured ; 

 whorls five to six, very convex ; sutures deep and grooved ; 

 umbilicus represented by a narrow chink ; mouth oval ; operculum 

 oval, nucleus lateral. In ditches between Greenwich and Wool- 

 wich which are flooded by the tide. H. siinilis. 



(b) Shell a lengthened cone, thin, glossy, yellowish-horn 

 coloured ; whorls six to seven, convex ; sutures not grooved ; 

 mouth oval; umbilicus smaller than in H. similis. 



H. ventrosaP 



Family IIL — Valvatidae. 



Shell conoid, more or less depressed ; mouth circular ; oper- 

 culum horny. Body spiral, with two tentacles, provided with a 

 long plume-like gill which is protruded when the animal is 

 crawling; eyes situated on the inner side of the base of the 

 tentacles. 



5. Valvata. 



{a) Shell globular, thin^ solid, light horn-coloured, whorls five 

 to six, rounded, body- whorl very large ; spire obtuse, compressed ; 



'■' V. albida, white ; v. fiilva, tawny, glossy ; v. ventricosa, more tumid, 

 globular-conical in shape, white ; v, zonata, reddish with one or more white 

 lines or bands ; v. producta, less tumid, in shape an elongated cone ; v. 

 excavata, whorls more rounded, suture much deeper ; m. decollaiwn, with the 

 apex decollated ; v. pallida, shell very pale horn coloured ; m. scalarifonne, spire 

 scalaria. 



"^. V. albida, white ; v. clongata, smaller, spire more produced. 



'^ V. pelliccida, clear white, nearly transparent ; v. minor, smaller, spire 

 shorter ; m. decollattim, spire decollated. 



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