108 THE LAND AND 1'KESUWATEH MOLLUSCA OF DOHSEXSUIRE. 



Shell crlobular, thick, solid, opaque, reddish, or dirty yellow, with 

 four or five brown spiral, rather indistinct bands on the body whorl, 

 and two or three on the penult whorl. There are also very tine, 

 irregular longitudinal strue; whorls four-and-a-half or five, very 

 convex, the last occupying about three-fourths of the shell ; spire 

 short, bluntly- pointed ; suture not deep ; mouth nearly round, angu- 

 lated above ; outer lip reflected over the umbilicus, which it partly 

 covers ; inner lip spread over the columella ; peristome reddish* white 

 inside. L.1.75. B.1.75. 



Hab. Woods, hedge banks and uncultivated places. In 

 Chedworth Parish, and about Frog Mill in Dorsetshire, &c., &c. 

 (Da Costa). 



On the authority of da Costa, this shell is attributed to Dorset- 

 shire ; Pulteney says ' ' I never found it iu Dorsetshire, but am 

 credibly informed it has been seen in this county." 



3. H. ASPERSA, Midler, pi. .8 



HELIX LUCOKUM, Pult. cat., p. 48. 



HELIX HOBTENSIS, Rack, ed., p. 55, pi. 20, fig. 1. 



Body oblong, contracted and rounded in front, very gradually 

 decreasing, and pointed behind, dark-brown above, dirty-grey 

 beneath. 



Shell globular, solid, not glossy, opaque, yellowish or greenish- 

 yellow, with brownish bands, streaked with zigzag stripes of white 

 on the two last whorls ; striae very fine and indistinct, which are 

 often obliterated by transverse striae, giving it the appearance of 

 being reticulated ; whorls four and a half, convex, the last the 

 larerest, which occupies about two-thirds of the &hell ; suture well 

 marked, spire raided; mouth obliquely oval, obtusely angulated 

 above, outer lip white inside, reflected ; inner lip spread upon the 

 columella. L.1.4. B.1.4. 



Hab. Woods and gardens (especially the latter). Generally 

 distributed. 



4. H. NEMORALIS, Linn., pi. 8. 



Pult. cat., p. 48, Rack, ed., p. 54, pi. 21, fig. 1,2,3,4. 



Body dark brown, with a yellow tinge. 



Shell globular, very convex above, depressed below, thin, solid, 

 smooth, nearly opaque, yellow, brown, pink, or white in a variety of 

 shades, with one to five dark spiral brown or purple bands, rarely 

 white or blue ; almost always continuous,but sometimes interrupted, 

 finely and irregularly striated, striae undulatory ; whorls five-and-a 



