HELIX. 137 



hispida. Leach, Moll. Syn. 71. — Helix rufescens jun. 

 Mont. T.B. supyi. 145. t. 23. f. 2. inner. — Helicella hispida. 

 Fitz. Si/st. 96.— Fruticola hispida. Held. Isi.s, 1837, 914. — 

 Brady baena hispida. Beck, hid. 20. 



Inhab. woods, under stones, in shady places. 

 Animal grey, foot white, thick; tentacles very 

 slender, dark. 



Shell about a quarter of an inch in breadth, and 



hardly as much high, horn-co- ^. 



. -Ill ^^9- co- 



loured, with a slight paler band 



in the middle of the larger vo- 

 lution ; periostraca clothed with 

 close fine hairs which are very 

 caducous, under which it is a 

 little striate, but not granular, like the H. granulata ; 

 aperture moderate, (fig. 40.) 



55. 22. Helix concinna. Neat Snail. — Shell rather 

 depressed, slightly keeled, rather shining, reddish 

 brown, concentrically grooved, with scattered 

 deciduous whitish hairs ; whorls five or six ; 

 mouth roundish lunate, margined ; umbilicus 

 broad, (t. 11. f. 135.) 



Helix concinna. Jeffreys, Linn. Trans, xiii. 337. ; Alder, 

 Mag. Z. and B. 107. — Helix hispida, var. Forbes and 

 Hanley, B. M. iv. 69. — Helix depilata. Pfeffer, i. t. 35., 

 t. 2. f. 18. (?); Alder, Mag. Z. and B. 107. — Helix 

 rufescens. Swiss Conchologists. 



Inhab. under stones, and dry places, among 

 nettles, &c. 



Animal reddish, very polished ; tentacles longish. 



Shell very like the former, but differs in being 

 rather larger, the umbilicus wider, and the hairs 

 further apart and much more deciduous, which 



