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specimens with short hairs, which are easily rubbed off and 

 disappear in the adult : whorls 6-7, convex, the last occupying 

 rather more than one-half of the shell : spire short and ending 

 in a blunt point : suture rather deep : mouth oblique, forming 

 a segment of about three-fifths of a circle, furnished inside 

 with a rather thick white rib, which is placed at a little 

 distance from the edge : outer lip thin and slightly reflected, 

 not much inflected above, rounded beneath, and folding over at 

 its junction with the columella: umbilicus small and narrow, 

 but rather deep, exposing the whole of the spire. L. 0*4. 

 B. 0-7. 



HABITAT : Hedges, wooded banks, and walls, in the 

 home and many of the southern counties of England, as 

 well as in Northumberland, Yorkshire, Gloucestershire, 

 Somersetshire, Monmouthshire, and Glamorganshire. 

 In the appendix to Welsh and Whitelaw's ' History of 

 Dublin,' it is stated to inhabit that neighbourhood ; but 

 this locality seems to be doubtful, as subsequent writers 

 on Irish Conchology have not confirmed the correctness 

 of such statement. It does not appear to range north 

 of England; but it is found in France, Illyria, Italy, 

 and Sicily. 



Bouchard-Chantereaux mentions its breeding at so 

 early an age that the mouth of its then tender shell is 

 often broken at the edge in the course of propagation. 

 The eggs are laid in a damp spot. It hibernates from 

 November to February, and forms an epiphragm like 

 a film of the finest blown glass. 



Lister appears to have indicated H. Cantiana as a large 

 variety of H.rufescens, or a distinct species, which he says 

 is found in Kent. It is the H. Carthusiana of Drapar- 

 naud, but not the H. Cartusiana of Miiller ; and Donovan 

 described it under the name of H. pallida, which is 

 much more appropriate than the one it now bears. The 

 present species is very unlike any of those which I have 

 above described. 



