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We once found it in a wood in Devovjliire ; this was 

 fo uncomnfionly thin (though not of an inferior fize) that 

 as the animal dried, the fliell coatrafted with it into de- 

 preflions. 



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Helix lucida. Puli. CuL Dotfet. ■^. A7. —Guak. t. 2. G. Lucida. 

 Helix nitens. Gn2cl. Syji. p#3633. 66. 



Tart. Lin. iv. p. 516. 



Chem. Conch, t. 127. f. 1130. 1131. 

 Helix pellucida. 5r. Zool. No. 134 ? 

 Helix nitida. Mullcr Verm. p. 32. No. 22,^. 



Pdiv. Gaz.a. 93. f. 14. 



Schroeier Flujjcmdu t. 5. f. 32, 33. 



H. with a fniooth, gloffy, thin, pellucid, horn-co- 

 loured (hell, with five, and fometimes fix volutions, the 

 lower one rounded, the reft almoft flat and deprefled, 

 or very little raifed above the body whirl : the bafe is of 

 a lighter colour, more opaque, and has frequently a faint 

 tinge of green : umbilicus large and deep : aperture lu- 

 nated, margin thin, and not the leaft reflefted. Diame- 

 ter at the bafe ufually three-eighths of an inch, fome- 

 times half an inch ; height not above two-tenths. 



This is not an uncommon fpecies, is found in many 

 parts of England, in moift woods, as \'d\ as in dry 

 banks. 



We have found a fliell inhabiting wet places, and once 

 .alive under water, fo much like this, that we dare not 



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