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Shell a quarter of an inch in diameter, and as much 

 high, pale horn-colour, frequently a little rufous 

 about the mouth, extremely thin and light, clothed 

 with a very fine down, which when shed or worn 

 off, leaves the surface glossy and minutely granu- 

 late like shagreen : aperture crescent-shaped, rather 

 wider than long, very thin, and reflected only at 

 the umbilicus, which is extremely small. The 

 larger volution is well rounded, without keel or 

 band, and the internal rib only visible in full-grown 

 specimens. 



This is evidently not the H. hispida of the conti- 

 nental writers, who describe the shell as depressed, 

 brown, striate, with the larger volution carinated 

 and marked with a white band, and omit any no- 

 tice of the finely granular surface. 



In damp shady places. 



30. HELIX cingenda. Shell with the larger volution 

 rather flat at top, marked with numerous brown 

 and yellowish bands : the mouth mostly rose-colour. 



Helix cingenda. Montagu, p. 418. t. %4>.f. 4. 

 Teba cingenda. Leach, Mollusc, p. 92. 

 Helix Rhodostoma. Drap. p. 86. t. 5.f. 13 15. 

 Helix strigata. Dillrvyn, p. 911. 



