88 HELICID^. 



In woods, among decayed leaves, and under 

 stones. {Fleming, 1809.) 



Animal light-coloured above, with black head and 

 horns ; under part light-coloured, bordered with 

 black; air-valve, when closed, with a black spot, 

 when open, surrounded by a black ring. {Sturm, 

 Fauna, t. 9. ; Pfeiffei-, 1. c.) 



Shell half an inch in diameter, not so much in 

 height, extremely thin and transparent, of a pale 

 watery green, and quite smooth; volutions three, 

 the first very large and a little oblique, the others 

 but little raised and ending obtusely ; aperture very 

 large, oval-elliptic, rather oblique, interrupted at 

 top by the prominency of the second volution, with 

 the margin thin and membranaceous, often coloured 

 with a pale brown border, without internal rib ; the 

 suture well marked, and when magnified exhibiting 

 a striated spiral line ; pillar lip a little reflected, and 

 forming a slight concavity, but not an umbilicus. 



1. Shell varies as to the colour of its suture ; in 

 some this is whitish and more wrinkled than in 

 others, in some it is brown, whilst in others the 

 brown, in particular lights, appears as if gilded. 



2. The green colour of the shell also varies in 

 hue. 



Dr. Fleming first observed tliis species in Britain ; 

 for he says that he sent it to the late Mr. Montagu 

 in 1809, who considered it as the fry of the Helix 

 nitida. ( See Leach, H. nemoralis.) Brown described 

 it as British in 1819, and it was noticed as English 

 by M. Ferussac and myself in 1820 and 1821. 



Captain Brown, in his British Shells, figures under 



