139 



Helix putris. Don. Br. SkeHs. v. t. 168. f. 1. Puteis. 



limosa. Pult. Hutch. Dorset, t. 18. f. 19- p. 37S» 



Helix succinea. Lin. Trans, viii, p. 218. 



The animal like other Limaces poflefling four tentacula, 

 is hermaphrodite, and fometimes unites as late as the month 

 of Auguft. 



We are inclinedto agree with the authors of the Defcrip- 

 iive Catalogue of Brityh Tejlacea that this is not the Linmea/i 

 putris, upon a recurrence to the defcription of that writer; a 

 miftake probably induced by the opinion of Muller, and 

 other refpe(5lable authors. The reference alfo to our Helix 

 peregra for the true putris is probably correal. 



In the work refered to, mention is made of a variety of 

 this lafl fliell with a white thickened lip ; and, we might add, 

 expanded, and fub-reflexed, from confulting the fpeciraens 

 favoured us by Mr. Rackett, who remarked that they were 

 found in a pond between Whitchurch and Milbourne in Dor- 

 Jetjhir- . Should this chara6ler hereafter appear to be general 

 in particular fituations, it might be conje6tured, with much 

 reafon, that it is adtually a diflindl fpecies. 



Lin. Trans, viii. p. 222. Glutikosa." 



p. 379. 

 Since the publication of Tejlacea Britannica we have been 



fortunae enouo-h to di.cover this very local fpecies in a wa- 

 ter courle near Reading, in Beikjbire, that conjmunicates 



S 1 with 



