190 AURICULIMJ, 



be seen obscurely indicated in some Ophicardelli and 

 the other genera. 



This family contains only two British genera : 



1. Carychium. Shell ovate ; mouth oblong, three- 



toothed; peristome reflexed. (p. 219. f. 1, 2.) 



2. Conovulus. Shell ovate ; mouth linear ; pillar 



with two or three plaits, (p. 219. f. 4, 5.) 



1. CARYCHIUM Muller. (Carychium.) 



Shell spiral, thin, conic-ovate ; mouth oblong, lon- 



Fig. 45. gitudinal, two- or three- 



^^s> toothed, compressed, rather 



^SigL^ oblique, rounder at each 



end ; peristome interrupted, 



thickened and rather reflexed. (p. 219. f. 2.) 



87. 1. CARYCHIUM minimum. Minute Sedge Shell. 

 (t 7. f. 77.) 



Carychium minimum. Mi'dler, Verm. ii. 125. ; Jeffreys, L. T. 

 xvi. 365. ; Leach, Syn. Mott. 95. ; Forbes and Hanley, B. M. 

 iv. 198. t. 125. f. 8. Turbo Carychium. Mont. p. 339. 

 t. 22. f. 2., Linn. Trans, viii. 1 84. Auricella Carychium. 

 Hartmann, in Sturm^ Fauna, vii. t. 1. Auricula minima. 

 Drap.p. 57. t. 3. f. 18, 19. Odostomia Carychium. Flem. 

 Ed. Ency. vii. 76. Helix Carychium. Gmel S. M. \. 

 3665. JBulimus minimus. Poiret, Prod. Seraphia tri- 

 dentata. Risso, Eur. Merid. iv. 84. Carychium minu- 

 tissimum. Ferussac. 



At the roots of grass and moss in moist places. 

 (Mr. Boys.) 



The animal is yellowish white, with only two short 

 cylindrical, blunt, or truncated tentacles, at the base 

 of which, between or nearly behind them, are placed 

 two very conspicuous approximating black eyes. 



