HELIX. G5 



H. lapicida, Linnreus. 



Depressed orbicular ; circumference of the body sharply cari- 

 nated ; peristome white, and reflected. 



Plate CXVI. fig. 3, 4. 



Helix lapicida, Linn. It. Oel. et Gothl. p. 8; Syst. Nat. ed. 12, p. 1241.— 

 Penn. Brit. Zool. ed. 4, vol. iv. p. 132, pi. 84, f. 121.— Put- 

 teney, Hutchins, Hist. Dorset, p. 46. — Donov. Brit. Shells, 

 vol. ii. pi. 39, f. 2 — Mont. Test. Brit. p. 435. — Maton and 

 Rack. Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. viii. p. 187. — Dorset Catalog, 

 p. 52, pi. 20, f. 9. — Gray, Manual L. and F. W. Shells, 

 p. 140, pi. 5, f. 51. — Brown, Illust. Conch. G. B. p. 46, 

 pi. 17, f. 9, 10, 1 1.— Chemn. Conch. Cab. vol. ix. pt. 2, p. 88, 

 pi. 126, f. 1107.— Drap. Moll. Terr, et Fluv. France, p. Ill, 

 pi. 7, f. 35, 36, 37.— Ferus. Prodrom. Moll. No. 150; Hist. 

 Nat. Moll. Terr, et Fluv. pi. 66, f. 6 (Helicella). — C. Pfeif. 

 Deutsch. Land und Siisswas. Moll. pt. 1, p. 40, pi. 2, f. 26, 

 27. — RossmAssl. Iconog. Land und Siisswas. Moll. pt. 1, 

 p. 63, f. 11. — Charpent. N. Denks. Schweiz. Ges. Nat. 

 vol. i. (1837), p. 9, pi. 1, f. 7, 8 (Carocolla). — Morelet, 

 Moll. Terr, et Fluv. Portugal, p. 57. — Chemn. (ed. Kiist.) 

 Conch. Cab. Helix, No. 120, pi. 20, f. 10, 11 ; and pi. 38, 

 f. 30, 31.— L. Pfeif. Monog. Helic. vol. i. p. 370. 

 „ acuta, Da Costa, Brit. Conch, p. 53, pi. 4, f. 9. — Jeffreys, Trans. Linn. 



Soc. vol. xvi. p. 344, 512. 

 „ affinis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. p. 3621. 

 Carocolla lapicida, Lam. (ed. Desh.) Anim. s. Vert. vol. viii. p. 148. — Fleming, 

 Brit. Anim. p. 258.— Turt. Manual L. and F. W. Shells, 

 p. 66, f. 51. 

 Helicogona „ Risso, Hist. Nat. PEurope Mer. vol. iv. p. 66. 

 Latomus „ Fitzing. Syst. Verz. Erzh. Weichth. p. 97. 

 Lenticula „ Held, Isis, 1837, p. 913. 

 Chilotrema „ Beck, Index Moll. Mus. Christ. Frid. p. 28. 

 Helix Rlienana, Hartmann. 



Shell depressed, lenticular, fully as convex below as 

 above, most delicately shagreened, very sharply carinated 

 upon the middle of the body-whorl, thin, slightly trans- 

 parent, not polished, yellowish, horn-coloured, or pale 

 rufous with alternating darker stains of deep chestnut. 

 Whorls five, slightly convex, moderately broad, gradually 



