GASTEROPODA. HELICIDZ. 79 
slender, wanting behind. Umbilicus perforate. Upper tenta- 
cula moderate: inferior ones short. 
ELISMIA FASCIATA. 
E. testa oblongo-conica, albida ; anfractibus subobliqué striolatis 
et fasciatis. 
Turbo fasciatus, Mont. Test. Brit. 346. 
Bulimus acutus, Drap. Hist. des Moll. 77. pl. 4. fig. 29. 
Lymneea fasciata, Flem. Edinb. Encycl. vu. 78. 
Helix acuta, Dill. Desc. Cat. 965. 
f. albida, anfractibus ad sinistram nigris, seepius albo trans- 
versim lineatis. 
Turbo fasciatus, Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 131. pl. 82. fig. 119. 
y- nigra aut perfusca, anfractibus obliqué albo-lineatis. 
Animal cinereum aut testaceum ; tentacula pallida. 
Habitat in arenosis aridis et subulosis maritimis, vulgatissima. 
Shell oblong-conic, whitish, the whorls somewhat obliquely 
striated finely, and banded with black. 
The second variety is whitish, the left side of the whorls 
black; the black very frequently transversely lmeated with 
white. 
The third variety is black or deep-fuscous, the whorls ob- 
liquely lineated with white. Height three-quarters of an inch. 
Animal cinereous or testaceous. Tentacula pale. 
Inhabits many of the sandy districts of Britain that imme- 
diately border on the sea. It is common in the sandbanks 
around Bigbury Bay, in Devon; Whitsand Bay, in Cornwall ; 
the sandy shores of South Wales; in Anglesea; on the coast 
of Dorset ; on most of the sandy shores in the south of Ireland ; 
and in the Isle of Man. 
Var. y was communicated to me by my kind friend, the Pro- 
vost of Eton, who found it under the Chesil Bank, in Portland 
Island. 
