&2 HELICID^. 



not perceptible. It would appear, therefore (he 

 continues), that the animal has the power to retain 

 or emit its peculiar odour at pleasure, and that in 

 death its emission may be prevented by accidental 

 circumstances : he thinks it arises from the yellow 

 fluid pressed out about the head. 



26. 2. ZoNlTES cellarius. Cellar Snail. — Shell flat, 

 pale yellowish horn-colour, transparent, shining, 

 very slightly wrinkled, with 5 or 5| whorls ; 

 the under side clouded with opaque white ; um- 

 bilicus moderately large, exposing the second 

 whorl, (t. 4. f. 40.) 



Helix cellaria. Midler^ Vei-m. 28.; Lam. Hist.v'i.; Alder, Cat. 

 12. 11. 47.; Mag. Zool. and Bot ii. 208.— Helix nitida. Drop. 

 Moll. 117. t. 8. f. 28. 25.; Brurd, 31. t. 2. f. 2. — Zonit.es 

 cellarius. Gray., Maimal, 170. t. 4. f. 40.; Forbes and Han- 

 ley, B. M. iv. 33. t. 120. f. 1, 2, 3. t. H H H. f. 3. — Oxy- 

 chilus cellaria. Fitz. Sys. t. 100. — Polita cellaria. Held. 

 Inis, 1837, 906. — Helicella cellaria, and H. Draparnaudii. 

 Beck, Ind. 6. — Zonites (Aplostonia,) cellarius. Moq. Tand. M, 

 Franc, ii. 78. t. 9. f. 1, 2. — Vortex cellaria. Oken, Lehrh. iii. 

 314. — Helix nitens. Maton and Racket, Linn. Trans, viii. 

 198. t. 5. f. 7.; Fervssac, Prod. — Helix lucida. Montag. T. 

 B. 425. t. 23. f. 4.; Turt. Man. ed. 1. f. 40. — Zonites lucida. 

 Leach, Moll. Syn. 75. 



Inhab. under stones in fields and woods, and in 

 cellars and yards in cities. 



Animal pale grey, white when young. 



Shell rather less than half, an inch in diameter, 



but sometimes growing to nearly three quarters of 



jr/fl.32. an inch, glossy, and irregularly 



striate, with 5 or 5^ volutions, 



^'M i^ :/"^^^ which are well defined by the 



suture ; underneath milky-white. 



