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Hanley, B. M. iv. 50. t. 116. f. 8, 9. — Teba cantiana. Leach, 

 Moll. Syn. 68. — Theba carthusiana. Risso, Eur. Merid. iv. 

 74.— Helix carthusiana. Drap. p. 102. t. 6. f. 33. (?), 1801 ; 

 Turton, Man. ed. 1. f. 26.; Brard, p. 24. t. 1. f. 6., not 

 Midler ,• Ferus. Prod. 43. ; Rossm. Icon. vi. f. 364. — Helix 

 pallida. Don. Br. Shell, t. 157. f. 2. (1802).— ? Helix crepus- 

 cularis. Gmel. S. N. — Frutieola carthusiana. Held. Isis, 

 1817, 914.— Bradybffina cantiana, and B. brunonensis. Beck, 

 Ind. 19. 



In hedges in sandy and chalky districts. Kent, 

 Surrey, Hampshire, Dorset, Hertford. Now common 

 near Newcastle. 



Animal grey, above warty, brown. 



Shell about three quarters of an inch in dia- 

 meter, irregularly striate transversely. Fig. 35. 

 thin and nearly transparent, of a pale 

 yellowish-white or lead-colour, rufous 

 about the mouth and underneath ; the 

 lower volution tumid and well rounded, not carinated, 

 but mostly marked with an obscure pale band in the 

 middle ; aperture semielliptic, as wide as long, with 

 a thin but not reflected margin ; the internal rib 

 white or rosy; umbilicus small, (fig. 35.) 



The young shells are very pale, pellucid, and with 

 a rather hispid periostraca. 



Ferussac was at first inclined to consider this 

 species as distinct from any of the continental shells 

 {Journ. Phys. xc. 300.) ; but he afterwards considered 

 it as a local variety of H. carthusiana of Drap. 

 All the French specimens I have seen are very 

 different from our shells, and I think they want 

 further examination ; at any rate Lister's and Mon- 

 tagu's names have the priority, and H. carthusiana 



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