CONOVULUS. 193 



Auricula personata. Pot. and Mich. Cat. i. 250. ; Desk. 

 Lam. ed. 2. viii. 332. r Carychium personatum. Mich. 

 Compl. 73. t. 15. f. 42, 43. Carychium (Phytia) myosotis. 

 Moq. Tand. M. F. ii. 417. t. 29. f. 3339. t. 30. f. 14. 

 Auricula ciliata. Morelet, Moll. Portug. 77. t. 7. f. 4. Alexia 

 ciliata. Pfeiff. Aur. 150. Auricula myosotis, var. a. Feruss. 

 Prod. 103. Auricula denticulata. Jeffreys, Linn. Trans. 

 xvi. 367. Auricula tenella. Menke, Syn. 131. Pythia 

 denticulata. Beck, Ind. Conovulus denticulatus. Gray, 

 Man. 225. f. 144. Jaminia denticulata, and J. quinqueden- 

 tata. Brown. Alexia denticulata. Leach, Syn. Moll. ; 

 Pfeiffer, Auricul. 145. Carychius (Ovatella) denticulata. 

 Moq. Tand. M. F. ii. 415. t. 29. f. 2729. 



Var. myosotis, shell stronger, lips less toothed: Auricula 

 myosotis. Drap. Hist. 56. t. 3. f. 16, 17. Carychium 

 myosotis. Midland, Comp. 73. Voluta denticulata. 

 Berkeley, Zool. Jour. v. 428. Melampus denticulatus. 

 Stimps. t. 19. f. 3. Auricula denticulata. Gould, Inv. 

 Massa. 199. t. 129. Pythia myosotis. Gray, Med. Repos. 

 1821 ; Beck, Ind. 104. Conovulus denticulatus, var. myos- 

 otis. Forbes and Hanley, B. M. t. 125. f. 4, 5. 



Inhab. brackish marshes, clefts of rocks near the 

 high-water mark, and in the mud left bare by the 

 tide at the mouths of rivers. 



Animal purplish. 



The habits of the animal are very like those of 

 LymncBUs fossarius and palustris, which are some- 

 times found occupying the same situations a little 

 distance up the river that these animals do at its 

 mouth. 



This shell was first recorded as British by Boys, 

 who found it in .the marshes near Faversham, at the 

 roots of rushes. 



This species varies considerably 1. In size; 



2. In colour, from purplish brown to brownish, while 

 some are also very rarely found nearly hyaline ; 



3. In the length of the spire and in the ventricose- 



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