HELICOSTYLA PSEUDO-GLOBOSA. 205 
The Helix woodwardi Edwards ms., and Felix etheridge Edwards Ms., 
are, according to Mr. Gardner, probably only young stages of the present 
species, but it may be noted 
that in /. woodward? the 
whorls are not so strikingly 
expanded laterally as in /7. 
etheridgei, and the shell 
itself is nearly double the 
size for the same number of 
whorls, while the suture in 
Fic. 266. Fic. 267. a mMndINHAd? are 
Helicostyla woodwarat Helicostyla etheridvei Helix woodwardi _ appears 
(Edwards s.), X 2. (Edwards ms.), X 2. deeper and more linear. 
After photographs of Edwards’ type specimens in the be i 
British Museum. The figures reproduced 
herewith from photographs of the type specimens, show shells which are 
probably immature or not perfectly adult. 
Oligocene—lIsle of Wight : Recorded by Edwards from the Bembridge limestone 
at Shaleombe near Ryde and Sconce. Messrs. Newton and Harris quote Headon 
Hill; Dr. Mantell, Shalfleet near Yarmouth ; and Mr. Chas. Ashford, Bembridge, 
Hempstead, Whitecliff Bay, ete. 
In South Hants., Dr. Gray records it from the freshwater strata at Hordwell, 
in company with Mya, Psammobia, and Corbule. 
GENUS KULOTA Hartmann. 
Eulota fruticum (Miiller). 
Helix fruticum Miiller, Verm. Hist., 1774, ii., p. 71. 
— terrestris Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1788, p. 3639. 
— lucana Vallot, Exere. d Hist. Nat., 1801, p. 14. 
— schrenkiti Sandb., N. Jahrb. Mineral., 1874, p. 173. 
Helicella fruticum Vitz., Syst. Verzeichn., 1833, p. 95. 
Bradybena fruticum Beck, Ind. Moll., 1837, p. 19. 
Fruticicola fruticum Held, Isis, 1837, p. 314. 
Eulota fruticum Hartm., Gaster., 1840, i., p. 179, pl. 63. 
SHELL globular and strong-shelled, with a well-produced SPIRE of about five or 
six white and convexly-swollen WHORLS, gradually but slowly increasing in size 
and finely striated in the line of growth ; SUTURE deep and distinct ; APERTURE 
lunately-rounded, lip sharp and slightly expanded with a weak, whitish and smooth 
inner rib ; UMBILICUS open and deep. Diam. 20 mill. ; alt. 17 mill. 
Fic. 268.—Eudota yruticum (Miiller), showing upper, frontal, and basal aspects 
(Belfort, Haute Sadne, France). 
Variation.—This species is also said to be identical with the Helix 
carduelis Reib. and the Helix cinerea of Poiret, and is very variable in its 
colour and markings, many varieties having been discriminated and named; 
the large form, 24 mill. in diameter, is named var. major by Westerlund : 
the dwarf form is the var. furfica of Slavik ; the var. nana of Sandberger : 
and the var. minor of Westerlund. The var. anderssoni Clessin is a dwart 
but depressed form ; the var. 7rswlarum is also a dwarf, though narrowly 
umbilicate variety, and a somewhat trochoid form has been named conica 
by Wattebled and conoidea by Westerlund. 
