fl ELIX 



Plate LIII. 



Species 256. (Tig. a to i, Mus. Cuming.) 



Helix picta. Eel. Uitd imperforata, sub-Neritaformi, 

 soliduld, glabra, varQ eoloratd, faneiU cariis et inler- 

 dum striyit remoti* taricoiU ornatd ; »pird breci ; aa- 

 fraclibwi quatuor, contexit, ultimo iiiflato ; columella 

 arcuatd, callosd ; aperturd tubampld, lunato-orali, 

 fauce lacUd aut violaced ; p^ruiomaie simplid, intuit 

 gubincTosmto, purpureo-nigro vel coccineo limialo. 



The painted Helix. Shell imperforated, somewhat 

 Nerite-shaped, rather solid, smooth, variously c»- 

 louied, ornamented with variously coloured bands 

 and sometimes with remote varicose stripes ; spire 

 short ; whorls four, convex, the last inflated ; colu- 

 mella arched, callous ; aperture rather large, lunar- 

 oval, interior milk-white or violet ; lip simple, rather 

 thickened within, and edged with purple-black or 

 scarlet-red. 



BoBN, Test. Mus. dcs. Vindobonensis, p. 3S6. pi. 15. 

 f.l7, 18. 



Helix zeauda, Gmelin. 

 Cortex mali citrei, Chemnitz. 



Hab. Cuba. 



This is, perhaps, the most varicoloured of all the land 



snails. The following vanetics, jcli-ctetl fron ^' 

 Cuming's cabinet, represent the principal f..i 

 Fig. 256 a, a plain unhanded bright yellow, bordered with 

 a line of deep scarlet-red. Fig. 256 4, a brii:' - ' •. 



with a sutural and a central white band. 

 similar to the preceding, except that the chestnut instead 

 of being uniform is broken up into irregular bands and 

 dotted lines upon a straw-colouied ground. Fig. 256 </. 

 a rich orange-vermilion, with a ( black and 



white central band. Fig. 256 c, ji :u nomerous 



irregular blue-black and chestnut bands upon a white 

 ground. Species 256 /, dark blackish-violet, » 

 central white fine thread-like band. Fig. 256 g, 

 green with a sntnral and a central white band, lip and 

 suture edged with black. Fig. 256 A, bright yellow, with 

 a sutural and a central black band, tip edged with black. 

 Fig. 256 I, a delicate salmon-colour, with a sutural and > 

 contiguous black and white central band, the Litter h^* " • 

 a white band beneath it, lip edged with black. Fig. - 

 a bright yellow, with a central white thrvad-Uii. ' . i 

 sutural black band, and a black varici>*i' lianJ, ii;- '-'i^'-'\ 

 with black. 



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