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margin faintly marked by the ftrlE : behind the pillar lip 

 a cavity, ox fub- umbilicus : operculum teftaceous, fpiral- 

 ly (Iriaicd. Length five-eighths of an incli; breadth 

 three -eighths. 



This elegant fpecies is the onlv BritiJJi land (liell with 

 a teftaceous operculum. It is rather local, but fufficient- 

 \y plentiful in fbme parts; chiefly inhabiting drv gravel, 

 or fandy foil, under mofs. We have found it in great 

 abundance, clofe to the fea at the roots of fern, to the 

 weft of Tenby in Wales ; as well as in the woods at Lack- 

 ham in WiUfhire. It has alfo been found in feme parts of 

 Kent, Lincolnjliirc^ YorkJJiire, and Nurihamptonjhire. 



Da Costa fays in Surry about DarJdng : and Pen- 

 nant in the woods of CambridgeJJiire. Doflor Pulte- 

 NEY obferves, it is common on the higher downs of 

 Dorfetjhire, efpecially near the fea, and that he had feen 

 it plentiful on Hod Hill near Blandford : we alfo no- 

 ticed it on Portland^ and at Swanage in the fame county. 



On the continent it is found in France and Italy ; and 

 according to Chemnitz on the PyreneaninQ\xn\.dans un- 

 der bufhes. 



Schroeter feems to have been puzzled where to 

 place this fliell, whether amongft his land, or frelli-water 

 fpecies; as he obferves, fome make the animal topoflefs 

 ..four tentacula, while others _give it only two : but ap- 

 pears 



