72 HELICID^. 



I'lelix (jlohularis, Jeffreys, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xvi. p. 507. 



Monacha scn'coa, Fit/.ing. Syst. Verz. Erzh. Weichth. p. 95. 



Fruticohi, „ Hei,d, Isis, 1837, p. 914. 



Helicc granulata. Alder, Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Northumberl. vol. i. p. 39 ; vol. 



ii. p. 340.— Gray, Manual L. and F. W. Shells, p. 151, pi. 



3, f. 29.— Brown, Illust. Conch. G. B. p. 48. 

 „ scricea, var. Chemn. (ed. Kiist.) Conch. Cab. Helix, pi. 99, f. 16, 17, 18. 



Shell small, decidedly thin, transparent, subglobose, 

 rather shining, of a more or less pallid fulvous horn-colour, 

 everywhere densely clothed with very delicate down-like 

 hairs, which when partially abraded cause the surface to 

 appear somewhat shagreened or granular, very faintly and 

 irregularly striated. Spire rather elevated, being only 

 about a third less high than the body ; apex rather blunt. 

 Whorls five or six rounded, rather quickly but not ab- 

 ruptly enlarging, tolerably broad ; the last well rounded at 

 the circumference, devoid of any pale band. Aperture 

 crescent-shaped or abbreviatedly lunate, broader than high, 

 nearly equal in width to half the total diameter, not 

 produced at the base greatly beyond the general level. 

 Outer lip acute, very slightly ribbed internally with white ; 

 columellar lip dilated and somewhat reflected over the 

 very small umbilicus. Base rounded. Diameter nearly 

 the third of an inch. 



The animal is pale yellowish white, grey about the head 

 and tentacula. The mantle is speckled with black, giving 

 a pecidiar mottled aspect to the shell. 



This species is widely distributed, but rather local. 

 We have found it most abundant in the neighbourhood of 

 wet, mossy rocks. It is perhaps more frequent in the 

 west and south than elsewhere. 



