124 HELICID2E. 



" Tableau," published in 1801, contains any charac- 

 ters, never having seen the work. This is excus- 

 able, as the Abbe Dupery very properly observes, 

 "Elle est d'autant moins etonnante chez un 

 etranger, que, meme en France, le petit volume de 

 Draparnaud, devenu fort rare, est inconnu d'un 

 grand nombre de naturalistes, et qu'il n'a e*te, jusqu'a 

 present que tres-rarement cite par nos auteurs 

 francais " (Preface, xiii.) ; and the claim to priority is 

 not very strong, for M. Moquin Tandon, in speaking 

 of the "Prodromus" of Poiret, and the " Tableau" 

 of Draparnaud, observes, " On remarque deja, 

 dans Pun et Pautre livre, quelles distinctions spe- 

 cifiques ne sont plus aussi tranchees que dans le 

 petit traite de GeofFroy ;" so the books are not to 

 be compared to the elaborate work, accompanied 

 by good figures, of Montagu. 



M. Moquin Tandon has shown that Poiret's 

 name has precedence, by a few months, of that 

 used by M. Draparnaud, as his has over Mon- 

 tagu's. (Moll. Franc, ii. 239.) 



45. 12. HELIX virgata. Zoned Snail. Shell some- 

 what globular, white, with from one to six brown 

 bands more or less interrupted ; the mouth 

 dull rufous ; umbilicus moderate, (t 4. f. 31.) 



Helix virgata. Montage p. 415. t. 24. f. 1. ; Petiver, Gaz. t. 17. 

 f. 6.; Turton, Man. ed. 1. 40. f. 31.; Forbes and Hanley, 

 B. M. iv. 57. t. 117. f. 10. Cochlea virgata. Da Costa, B. C. 

 79. t. 4. f. 7. 1778. Teba virgata. Leach, Moll Syn. 68. 

 Helix variabilis. Drap. TabL 73. 1801, Hist. p. 84. t. 5. f. 11, 

 12. ; Ferussac, Journ. Phys. 297. ; Rossm. Icon. t. 26. f. 356. 

 a. f.; Moq. Tand. Moll. Franc, ii. 262. t. 19. f. 2126. 

 Helix striata. Brard, Coq. Paris, p. 36. t. 2. f. 5, 6. Helix 



