HELICIDJE. 157 



420. t. 23. f. 2. ; Fer. Prod. 44. ; Turton, Man. 



ed. i. 37. f. 28. ; Jeffreys, L. T. xiii. 337. 

 Teba rufescens. Leach, Mollusc, p. 96. 

 Helix glabella. Drap. p. 102. t. 7. f. 6.; Fer. 



Prod. 43.; Alder, Mag. Z. §• B. iii. 107. 



Inhab. gardens and hedges. 



Animal black-grey ; upper tentacles thick. 



Shell growing to three quarters of an inch in dia- 

 meter, but often smaller, semitransparent, varying 

 from pale ash-colour to rufous brown, often 

 marbled and mottled with paler or darker 

 blotches, rarely pure white, slightly carina te 

 in the middle of the larger volution by a paler band ; 

 aperture semielliptic, thin, and slightly reflected, 

 longer than broad. Both the young and old shells 

 are quite bald. 



Montagu, and all who have copied from him, 

 have represented the young of this species as clothed 

 with hairs. He probably mistook the Helix hispida 

 for it. 



Lister gives some details of the anatomy of this 

 species (Anat. t. 4. f. 4.). 



The shell varies greatly in colour, being generally 

 reddish brown, but passing from that colour to 

 nearly transparent or translucent white ; and in shape 

 and size. Tab. 4. f. 36., which Dr. Turton, in the 

 first edition, gave for H.fusca, appears to represent a 

 small higher variety of this species, which is often 

 met with near Battersea. 



Montagu's name has the undoubted priority. 



