270 HELICID^E. 



9. V. MINUTIS'SIMA*, Hartmann. 



Pupa minutissima, Hartm. in Neue Alp. i. p. 220, pi. ii. f . 5 ; F. & H. 

 iv. p. 104, pi. cxxx. f. 2. 



BODY slightly narrow and rounded in front, very gradually 

 attenuated and somewhat blunt behind, finely shagreened, 

 greyish-slatecolour, streaked or dotted with black : mantle 

 greyish-brown and of a lighter hue than the upper part of the 

 body: tentacles greatly diverging, separated by a narrow 

 groove, very tumid at their base, broadly edged with black ; 

 bulbs slightly globular : foot of a paler colour (sometimes 

 milk-white) at the sides and underneath, with a faint tinge 

 of yellow towards the middle of the sole, ending in a trian- 

 gular and blunt tail. 



SHELL oblong, nearly cylindrical, rather solid, semitrans- 

 parent and glossy, yellowish-brown or horncolour of different 

 shades, marked with strong, close-set, obliquely transverse and 

 rib-like striae : periphery rounded, but slightly compressed, 

 with a tendency to angularity : epidermis thin : whorls 5 J, 

 moderately convex, gradually increasing in size, the last but 

 two being somewhat the broadest of all, the body whorl 

 occupying about two-fifths of the shell : spire long, very 

 abrupt and blunt at the point : suture deep : 'mouth shaped 

 as in V. edentula, and (in British specimens) equally desti- 

 tute of teeth : outer lip thin, white, and reflected : umbilicus 

 small, narrow and oblique. L. O07. B. O035. 



HABITANT : Under stones on hills in a few scattered 

 places in Great Britain, and which are as follows: 

 Skye (Macaskill) ; Balmerino, Fifeshire (Chalmers); 

 Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh (E. Forbes); Sunderland, 

 South Hylton on the Wear, and Pontefract on mag- 

 nesian limestone (Howse) ; Went Vale, Yorkshire (Ash- 

 ford) ; Durdham Downs near Bristol, and Lulworth in 

 Dorsetshire (J.G.J.); Undercliff, Isle of Wight (More). 

 As an upper tertiary fossil it has been found at Clacton 

 and Copford in our eastern counties. It is widely dif- 

 fused on the Continent from Finland to Lombardy and 



* Exceedingly minute. 



