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colour rather opake, suddenly sloping in a conic 

 manner, the volutions hardly raised, slightly striate 

 longitudinally, and crossed with more remote trans- 

 verse ones, like the facets of cut glass ; aperture 

 oval, covering nearly half the shell, often chocolate- 

 brown and glossy in the inside, sometimes rosy 

 about the pillar, where the peritreme is spread 

 and glossy, forming a slight umbilicus. 



In marshes and ponds. 



108. LIMNEUS fossarius. Shell oblong-oval, with 

 six or seven rounded and deeply divided volutions, 

 striolate longitudinally and across. 



Limneus minutus. Drap. p. 53. t. 3.f. 5, 6. 

 Lymneus minutus. Brard, p. 138. t. 5.f. 8, 9. 

 Lymnsea minuta. Lamarck, vi. ii. p. 162. 

 Stagnicola minuta. Leach, Mollusc, p. 143. 

 Helix fossaria. Mont. p. 372. t. 16. f. 9. 



b. conic-oval, less glossy-brown and smooth. 

 Drap. p. 53. t. 3./. 7. 



c. with regular longitudinal striae. 



d. with the lower volution flattened at top, in 

 the centre of which are sunk the other volu- 

 tions. 



