170 HELICID^. 



Mr. Forbes states that this is the Pupa ohtusa 

 described by Dr. Fleming ; for he has " a specimen 

 which belonged to Captain Laskey, so labelled by 

 himself." Mr. Jeffreys has referred it, as a synonym, 

 to Pupa alpestris. 



76. 3. Vertigo pygmcea. Pygmy Whorl Shell. — 

 Shell egg-shaped, rather ventricose, bald, 

 shining, reddish brown ; whorls four or five ; 

 mouth orbicular lunate, with five teeth, one of 

 which is superior and central between the lips 

 of the peristome; the peristome acute, mar- 

 gined externally, (t. 7. f. 83.) 



Vertigo vulgaris. Leach, Sijn. AToll. 93. — Pupa pygmsea. 

 Drap. Tub. Moll. 57., Hist. p. 60. t. 3. f. 30, 31.; Forl)es and 

 Hmiley, B. Moll. iv. 106. t. 130. f. 4, 5. — Vertigo pvgmtea. 

 Feru.<<. Tub. Moll. 64.; Turton, Man. ed. l.f. 83. ;" Alder, 

 Mag. Zool. and Bot. ii. 112.; Mnq. Tand. M. F. ii. 405. 

 t. 28. f. 37—42. t. 29. f. 1—3. — Helix isthmia cylindrica. 

 Grnij, Med. Repos. 1821, 239. — Turbo sexdentatus jun. 

 Moiitag. T. B. 337. — Altea vulgaris. Jeffreys, Linn. Trans. 

 xvi. 359. — Vertigo quinquedentata, and V. quadridentata. 

 Stvder, Schw. Conch. — Pupa quinquedentata, and P. pygnirea. 

 Harini. N. Alpina, i. 219. — Alaja pygmaea. Beck, hid. 85. 

 — Stomodonta pygmaea. Mermett, Moll. Pyr. 55. 



On dry barren hills, under stones. 



Animal blackish grey ; tentacles very short ; 

 labial lobes very long ; jaw slender, with a very 

 slight central prominence. 



Shell a line long, dark brown, semltransparent ; 

 spire composed of five rounded and nearly smooth 

 volutions ; aperture somewhat triangular, with usu- 

 ally five teeth, two on each lip, and a central one 

 on the upper part; peristome thin, whitish when 

 the shell is perfect, slightly reflected and forming an 



