224 HELICID.^. 



cured many specimens by collecting a bagful of dead 

 and rather moist leaves and afterwards spreading them 

 on paper to dry, when the refuse yielded a good harvest. 

 This species has a wide range on the European continent 

 and has been met mth in every country between Siberia 

 and Sicily, and is said also to inhabit the Azores. 



Moquin-Tandon says that this tiny snail is extremely 

 timid and irritable, avoiding the garish light of day and 

 shutting itself up in its shell at the slightest touch, and 

 that when it is about to move it protrudes from the 

 shell the tail of its foot before any other part of the 

 body. Like the last species, it carries its shell erect 

 when crawling. It forms an excessively thin and deli- 

 cate epiphragm. 



This beautiful little testaceous gem differs from H, 

 rupestris in its much smaller size, finer textm'e and 

 sculpture, lighter colour, fewer whorls, more depressed 

 spire, slighter suture, and more open umbilicus. Leach 

 and Fleming, however, regarded it as the young of the 

 last species, and M. D'Orbigny of RocheUe made the 

 same mistake. It was first noticed as a British shell by 

 Dr. Gray in the ^Medical Repository^ for 1821. 



It is the H. minuta of Studer in Coxe^s ' Travels,^ and 

 H. Kirbii of Sheppard. 



F. Shell depressed : outer lip thickened and reflected, some- 

 times forming a complete peristome. 



22. H. PULCHEL LA *, Mullcr. 



H.pulchella, Miill. Verm. Hist. pt. ii. p. 30; F. & H. iv. p. 78, pi. cxix. 

 f. 9, 10. 



Body gelatinous, milk-white with a faint tinge of grey or 

 yeUow, nearly transparent, very slightly tubercled: nmntle 



* Pretty. 



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