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ad hispida. Testa elevata, lutescens, pellucida, hirsuta; um- 
bilico parvo. 
*** Testa conico-globosa. Umbilicus angustatus. 
8 fulva. Testa cornea, levis, nitida; peritremate simplici. 
**** Testa subconica. Umbilicus angustatus. 
9. spinulosa. Testa epidermide in lamellas elevatas transversas 
digesta. 
1. TEBA CINGENDA. 
T. testa alba, fusco- at lutescente-multifasciata ; fasciis seepius 
interruptis, peritremate roseo. 
Helix zonaria, Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 137. pl. 85. fig. 133. 
Helix cingenda, Mont. Test. Brit. 418.—Supp. t. 24. fig. 4 ; 
M. and R. Trans. Linn. Soe. viii. 195 ; Flem. Edinb. Encycl. 
vu. 79; Turt. Conch. Dict. 49. 
Helix Pisana, Mill. Verm. Hist. 255. 
Helix rhodostoma, Drap. Hist. des Moll. 86. pl. 5. figs. 14, 15. 
Helix strigata, Dill. Desc. Cat. 911. 
Habitat in locis aridis, plerumque maritimis. 
Shell white, with many longitudinal bands of deep brown or 
lutescent colour, more or less interrupted. Peritreme rosy. 
Animal pale ash-coloured or lutescent, sometimes grey, and 
marked with a dorsal line. Upper tentacula elongated, slender. 
Eyes very black, small, and inserted at the posterior edge of 
the extremity of the tentacula. 
Shell finely striated longitudinally and transversely. On the 
last whorl may be distinguished four longitudial bands, com- 
posed of lines ; the two left bands are continued into the inte- 
rior of the shell, whilst the two right bands ascend over the 
other whorls. It is subject to very great variations in colour. 
It is found white or luteous, without any bands of colour ; with 
one simple band of dark brown or chocolate ; or entirely covered 
by longitudinal fuscous lines. 
Teba cingenda inhabits dry sandy places, especially such as 
border on the seashore. It is very abundant on the south of 
