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Dr. Fleming {Brit. Anim.) thought that the Helix 

 cochlea of Brown {Wern. Trans, ii. t. 24. f. 10.) and 

 H. terebra Turton {Conch. Diet. 161. t. 14. f. 65.) 

 was probably a produced variety of this shell ! 



f. Shell depressed, transparent, umbilicated ; mouth 

 round ; peristome rejlexed, continued; epiphragm 

 membranaceous. (Zurama Leach.) 



42. 9. Helix pulchella. White Snail. — Shell 

 opaque-white or brownish, depressed, equally 

 convex on both sides ; aperture nearly circular, 

 with the margin flat and reflected, (t. 5. f. 49.) 



Helix pulchella. Miiller, Verm. 232. t. 5. f. 49.; Drap. p. 112. 

 t. 7. f. 30—32. ; Brard, p. 56. t. 2. f. 9. ; Alder, M. Z. andB. 

 ii. 109.; Gould, Invert. Mass. 176. f. 102. ; Forbes and Haidey, 

 B.M. iv. 78. t. 119. f. 8, 9, 10. — Helix paludosa. Walker, 

 T. M. B. f. 23. ; Mo7iL p. 204. ; Li7in. Trans, viii. p. 193. t. 4. 

 f. 5. — Turbo paludosus. Dorset Cat. 62. t. 19. f. 25.; Turt. 

 Diet, p.228. — Turbohelicinus. Lightfont, Phd. Titans. 1786, 

 Ixxvi. t. 3. f. 1 — 4. — Zurama pulchella. Leach. Moll. Syn. 

 78. — Helix minuta. Say. Jour. Acad. PhU. i. 123. — Am- 

 plexus paludosus. Broivn. — Amplexus crenellus. Brown. 

 Vallonia Rosalia. Rlsso, Eur. Merid. — Lucena pulchella. 

 Hartmann, t. 1. f. 6. 



Var. 1., more solid, with regular oblique raised transverse striae : 

 Helix pulchella. Drap. p. 112. t. 7. f. 30— 32. — Helix cre- 

 nella. Mont. T. B. p. 441. t. 13. f. 3. — Helix costata. Midler, 

 Verm. ii. 31.; Alder, Mag. Z. andB. ii. 109. — Helix (chilo- 

 stoma) pulchella. Charpent. Schweiz. Gess. Nat. i. 8. 1837. 

 — Helix crystallina. Dilho. R. S. ii. 909. — Chilostoma pul- 

 chellum. Fitz. Syst. 93. — Corneola pulchella. Held.Isis, 1837, 

 912. — Circinaria pulchella. Beck, Ind. 23. 



Inhab. under stones and on walls, &c. 

 Animal white or whitish ; upper tentacles longish, 

 slender, cylindrical, lower short; eyes black. {Sturm, 

 t. 15.) Jaw narrow, striated in front, and minutely 

 crenulated on the edge. 



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