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Helix Arbuftorum. Br. Zool. t. 85. f. 130. 



Don. Br. Shells, iv. t. 136, 

 Pult. Cat. Dorfet. p. 47. 

 Tu7-t. Lin. iv. p. 514. 

 Cochlea unifafciata. Da Cojia, p. 75. t. 17. f. 6. 



H. with a fub-globofe, fub-peilucld fhell, with five 

 volutiorxS a little rounded, well defined by the feparating 

 line, and wrinkled longitudinally: colour ufiially mot- 

 tled cinereous, and brown in flreaks, and lines ; fome 

 pale, inclining to yellow ; others dark, approaching to 

 cliefnut, wiih mufl commonly a fingle band of brown 

 about the middle of the body, continuing fpirally at the 

 bafe of the fuperior volutions, and is gradually loft be- 

 fore it reaches the apex. This fingle belt or fafcia has 

 beenconfidered as the ftrong charafter of the fhell ; how- 

 ever, it is frequently deftitute of that mark, and is often- 

 times fo faint as fcarcely to be traced ; the mottled ap- 

 pearance, therefore, is the moft conftant and unerring 

 charafter : aperture lunated, margin reflcxed, the infide 

 bordered with white ; in young fliells Tufuh-umhilicus is 

 obfervable, which is concealed by the reflefted lip in old 

 ones, when the aperture is completely formed- Greatefi; 

 diameter about three-quarters of an inch. 



This fpecies may be confidered as very local, but fuf- 

 ficiently plentiful in fome parts. It delights in wet, and 

 fhady places, particularly amongft willows and alders, 

 where the foil is black and boggy. In fuch places in the 

 neighbourhood of Lackham in Wilt/hire^ contiguous to 



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