LIMNiEUS. 177 



L. TRUNCATULUS, Milllei*. 



Small, perforated, conic-oval, spire about as long as the aper- 

 ture ; whorls tumid, deeply and abruptly divided. 



Plate CXXIV. fig. 3. 



Buccinum truncal '.ulum, Muller, Verm. Ter. et Fluv. vol. ii. p. 130. 



Helix truncatula, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. p. 3659. — Dillw. Recent Shells, vol. ii. 



p. 967. 

 Bnlimus truncates, Brug. Encycl. M6th. Vers, vol. i. p. 310. 

 Helix fossaria, Mont. Test. Brit. p. 372, pi. 16, f. 9. — Maton and Rack. 

 Trans. Linn. vol. viii. p. 217, pi. 5, f. 9. — Rack. Dorset 

 Catalog, p. 56, pi. 18, f. 17-— Turt. Conch. Diction, p. 66.— 

 Dillw. Recent Shells, vol. ii. p. 965. — Wood, Index Test, 

 pi. 35, f. 169. 

 Lymneus minutus, Drap. Moll. Ter. et Fluv. France, p. 53, pi. 3, f. 5, 6. — 



Alder, Mag. Zool. and Bot. vol. ii. p. 113. 

 Lymncea minuta, Lam. Anim. s. Vert. (ed. Desh.) vol. viii. p. 415. — Brown, 

 Must. Conch. G. B. p. 28, pi. 15, f. 12, 13, and pi. 18*, 

 f. 30, 31.— Nils. Moll. Suec. Ter. et Fluv. p. 72. 

 Limnceus minutus, C. Pfeif. Deutsch. Land und S'ussw. Moll. pt. 1, p. 93, pi. 4, 

 f. 27. — Rossmassl. Iconog. Land und Siissw. Moll. pt. 1, 

 p. 100, pi. 2, f. 57. — Philippi, Moll. Sicil. vol. i. p. 147; 

 vol. ii. p. 121. 

 Limneus truncatulus, Jeffreys, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xvi. p. 377. — Thompson, 



Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. vi. p. 120. 

 Limnea fossaria, Fleming, Brit. Anim. p. 274. 

 Limneus fossarius, Turt. Manual L. and F. W. Shells, p. 124, f. 108. 

 Lymnea minuta, Schub. and Wagn. in Conch. Cab. vol. xii. p. 182, pi. 235, 



f. 4134, 4135. 

 LimncBUS limosus, Cantr. Mem. Ac. Brux. 1836, p. 157. 



„ truncatulus, Gray, Manual L. and F. W. Shells, p. 240, pi. 7, f. 108. 

 — Macgil. Moll. Aberd. p. 110. — Stein, Schnecken 

 Berlins, pi. 2, f. 1 0. 

 Limnea minuta, Gras, Moll. Ter. et Fluv. France, pi. 4, f. 44. 

 Limitcca truncatula, Alder, Moll. Northumb. and Durh. p. 42. 



Shell small, oblong-conic, occasionally more produced, 

 thin, glossy, pale horn-coloured, nearly smooth, with the 

 ordinary microscopical chasing. Whorls six, peculiarly 

 rotundately inflated, swelling abruptly out above from the 

 simple and little slanting suture, of quick longitudinal in- 



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