429 



We never found this fpecies any where but on the 

 coaft of Dcvonjhire fparingly, and on the fhore near 

 Southampton, where it is plentiful about high water- 

 mark, but moft frequently dead fliells ; fome of which 

 have the epidermis worn oflF, and in that ftate are white. 



Have received fmall fpecimens from Folkjlone in Kent. 



A variety is rarely found with two rufous-brown 

 bands. 



38. 

 Helix fpinulofa. Phil Trans. LXXVI. t. 2. f. 1. to 5. Spinulosa. 



(Lighfoot.) Tab. 1 1 . f. 10. 



Helix aculeata. Gmel. Syji. p. 3638. 



MuUcr rem. ii. p, 81. No. 279. 

 C/iem. Conch, ix. t. 133. f. 1209. 

 Morton Northamp. p. 4 1 5 ? 

 Helix nucleata. Turt. Lin. iv. p. 520. 



H. with a fub-pellucid, thin, brown, horn-coloured 

 fiiell, with five rounded volutions, well defined by the 

 feparating line, furnifhed with regular, membranaceous 

 Ilriae, that rife into fine hairdike fpines, particularly 

 round the middle of each volution : apex confidera- 

 bly produced ; aperture femi-lunated : bale perforated. 

 Length one tenth of an inch; breadth nearly the fame. 



The flriae of this fpecies feem to be formed by the epi- 

 dermis, which rifes in fome parts into thin, flat, brifily 



procelfesj 



