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Buccinum auricula. Mutter, Verm. ii. 126. ; Sturm, 



Fauna, vi. 12. 

 Bulimus auricular ius. Brug. E. M. n. 14. f. 



In stagnant and slow waters. 



Animal dull greenish yellow; tentacles speckled 

 with brighter spots. (Sturm, t. 38.) 



Shell an inch long, and three quarters wide, thin, 

 brittle, transparent, of a light yellow horn- colour, 

 more or less distinctly striate longitudinally; spire 

 composed of four volutions, the three terminal ones 

 very small ; aperture vast, somewhat oval, with the 

 outer lip expanded; pillar with a strong fold, the lip 

 reflected and forming a slight hollow behind it. 



The eggs are scarcely different from those of L. 

 stagnalis. (See Pfeiffer, t. 7. f. 8.) 



89. 2. Limn^eus pereger. Puddle Mud Shell, (t. 7. 



f. 101.) Shell ventricose, more or less striate, with 



a moderately short acute spire, (p. 219. f. 6, 7.) 

 Limneus pereger. Drap. p. 50. t. 2. f. 34. 37. ; 



Jeffreys, Linn. Trans, xvi. 374. ; Turton, Man. 



ed. 1. 118. f. 101. 

 Lymnaea peregra. Lamarck, vi. ii. p. 161. 

 Gulnaria peregra. Leach, Mollusc, p. 146. 

 Helix peregra. Gmelin ; Mont. p. 373. t. 16. 



f. 2. 

 Helix putris. Penn. B. Z. ; Turt. Diet. p. 67. 

 Buccinum peregrum. Mutter, Verm. ii. 134. 

 Bulimus pereger. Brug. E. M. n. 10. 

 Lymnaea putris. Flem. Eel. Ency. 

 Lymnaeus vulgaris. Pfeiffer, i. 89. t. 4. f. 22. ; 



Rossm. Icon. i. 97. f. 53. ; not Jeffreys. 



