406 HELICID^. 



Animal (of M. concava), upper surface grayish; eye-peduncles 

 long, slender, bluish, base dirty white, color reddish-orange, poste- 

 rior extremity slightly tinged with the same ; foot narrow, twice as 

 long as the diameter of the shell, tail pointed, scarcely reaching be- 

 hind the shell ; other characters as in Helix. Carnivorous. 



Jaw crescentic, ends sharply pointed, anterior surface striated ; 

 concave margin smooth, with a median projection. 



Lino-iial membrane with numerous arched rows of aculeate, re- 

 curved, thorn-like uncini ; centrals simple, conical, pointed ; laterals 

 wantino; ; 23-1-23 teeth in each transverse row. 



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Macrocyclis concava. 



Shell depressed, whitish or greenish horn colored; whorls five, finely striate; 

 aperture rounded; peristome sub-reflected; umbilicus wide and deep. 



Helix concava, Say, Joum. Acad. ii. 159 (1821); Bixney's, ed. 20. — Binnet, Best. 



Journ. Nat, Hist. iii. 372 (1840), cxcl. pi.; Ten-. Moll. ii. 163, pi. 21. — Adams, 



Veniiont Moll. 159 (1842), cxcl. Syn. Vmiconi-cremis. — TlK Kay, N. Y. Moll. 33, 



pi. 2, tig. 15 (1843).— Pfeiffer, Mon. Hcl. Viv. iv. 159. — W. G. Binney, Terr. 



Moll. iv. 65. — Leidy, Terr. Mull. U. S. i. 258, pi. 12, figs. 9-11 (1851), anat. — 



Mouse, Am. Nat. i. 412, figs. 26, 27 (1867). 

 Helix phnorhoides, Terussac, Hist. t. 82, fig. 4. — Pfeiffer, Mon. Hcl. Viv. i. 200; 



Symbola?, ii. 37; Chemnitz, 2d ed. ii. 164, pi. 95, figs. 17-19; pi. 154, fig. 45 (1851). 



— Reeve, Con. Icon. 674 (1852). — Deshayes in Feu. i. 87. 

 Jlelix dissiJens, Deshayes in Feu. Hist. i. 97, ]>!. 84, figs. 1, 2. 

 Macrocyclis concava, Morse, Journ. Portl. 8oc. i. 12, pi. 5, fig. (1864). — Tryox, Am. 



Journ. Conch, ii. 245, pi. 3, fig. 8 (1866). 



Shell depressed, very slightly convex on the upper surface ; epi- 

 dermis whitish horn color, sometimes with a tinge of 

 '"■ ■ green ; whorls five, above flattened, below rounded, 



finely striate obliquely, and sometimes with micro- 

 scopic revolving lines, the outer whorl spreading a 

 little towards tlie aperture ; suture rather dee})ly im- 

 pressed ; umbilicus wide, deep, exhibiting all the 

 ^-J volutions to the apex ; aperture rounded, somewhat 

 flattened above, its edge frequently tinged with red- 

 dish-brown ; peristome sub-reflected at its columellar 

 M. concava. extrciuity, simple above, and in some specimens con- 

 siderably depressed near its junction with the outer whorl ; col- 

 umella with a thin callus, the edge of which connects the upper and 

 lower extremities of the peristome. Greater diameter, twenty-one 

 mill. ; lesser, sixteen mill. ; height, seven millimetres. 



