236 HELICID^E. 



light-brown with a yellowish tint, but varying in intensity 

 of colour, faintly and irregularly striate in the line of 

 growth, and marked spirally with fine and close-set but 

 undulating lines, which, being intersected by the transverse 

 striae, give the surface a slightly shagreened appearance : 

 periphery rounded, but compressed : epidermis rather thick : 

 whorls 7J, somewhat compressed, the last forming nearly 

 one-half of the shell : spire tapering, but somewhat abruptly, 

 blunt at its extremity : suture rather slight and oblique : 

 mouth oval, a little contracted on the inner side by the 

 penultimate whorl : outer lip white, reflected and con- 

 siderably thickened within, where it is of a reddish-brown 

 colour : umbilicus nearly covered by the reflexion of the 

 pillar lip, rather oblique, and deep. L. 0*65. B. 0'225. 



HABITAT: On trunks of trees, chiefly of beech, ash, and 

 hornbeam, in the woods of our southern and western 

 counties. It is local, although tolerably plentiful where 

 it occurs. At Buriton in Hampshire it is found with 

 Helix obvolula and Clausilia Eolphii. The locality given 

 in the Appendix to Welch and Whitelaw's ' History of 

 Dublin ' (viz. " neighbourhood of Dublin ") is very ques- 

 tionable, as the occurrence of this shell in Ireland has 

 not been noticed by Mr. Thompson or Mr. Waller. As a 

 tertiary shell it has only been discovered in the Clacton 

 deposit. Its foreign distribution appears to be limited 

 to the North and East of France, as well as the Pyrenees, 

 Germany, Switzerland, and Silesia, in all of which coun- 

 tries it is only known to inhabit elevated situations. 



The colour both of the body and shell varies in in- 

 tensity. In immature specimens the periphery is keeled. 

 The young are sometimes encrusted with earth in the 

 same manner as B. obscurus. 



It is the Helix Lackhamensis of Montagu ; but his 

 name is subsequent to that of Draparnaud and is, be- 

 sides, objectionable on account of its being derived from 

 a very obscure locality, which was not the first recorded 

 for the discovery of this species. 



