142 HELICID^E. 



f. 2.; Moquin Tandon, ii. 107. t. 10. f. 912. -- Zonites 

 radiatus. Leach, Moll. Syn. 74. Helix perspeetiva. Me- 

 gerl, Berl. Mag. Discus rotundatus. Fitz. Syst. 99. 

 Patula rotundata. Held. his, 1837. 916. Eurjomphala 

 rotundata. Beck, Jnd. 9. 



Var. b , spire quite flattened : Helix Turtoni. Fleming, Brit. 

 Anim. 269. Helix albella. Linn. S. Nat. Helix rotun- 

 data. Turton, Diet. p. 53. 



Var. c., white, transparent, and without rays : Zonites rotun- 

 datus. Gray, Man. 165. t. 5. f. 44. 



Common under stones and wood, on dead trees, 

 and in crevices of old walls. 



Animal pale grey, dotted above ; foot short, hya- 

 line ; back, head, and tentacles blackish (Sturm)', 

 jaw slender, striated, and crenulated ; teeth are those 

 of a true Helix. 



Shell about a quarter of an inch in diameter, 

 nearly equally convex on both sides, slightly carinate, 

 strongly and regularly striate across, yellowish or 

 reddish-grey with chestnut rays from the centre; 

 aperture semilunar, as wide as long, thin and not 

 reflected ; umbilicus large and deep. 



This species varies in size and in form, especially 

 of the spire, which is sometimes rather convex, and 

 at others nearly flat : in the latter form, it has been 

 considered as a separate species ; and Nilson believes 

 that the shell which Linna3us described &s Helix albella 

 in his " Swedish Fauna," is only a young species of the 

 flat-spired variety of this shell. It also varies in the 

 intensity of the brown spots on the spire ; sometimes 

 they are diffused and at others entirely wanting, and 

 the shell is sometimes nearly transparent and colour- 

 less. 



The jaw of Helix pygmea (Moq. Tand. t. 10. f. 2.), 



