PLATE CLI. 



FIG. I. 

 HELIX HISPIDA. 



BRISTLY SNAIL, 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Animal Limax. Shell univalve, spiral, diaphanous, fragile. Aper- 

 ture contracted semilunar, or roundish. 



SPECIFIC CHARAtTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Shell umbilicated, convex, hairy, diaphanous ; whorls five : aperture 

 roundish-lunated. 



Helix hispida : testa umbilicata convexa hispida diaphana: an- 

 fractibus quinis,aperturasubrotundo-lunata. Linn. 

 Fn. Suec. 21S2.—Gmd. Syst. Nat. 3625. 



Helix sub-glohosa umbilicata, cornea, diaphana, hispida. Hispidiif 

 Helix. Da Costa. Brit. Conch, p. 58. 



This shell is not unfrequently found at the bottoms of trees among 

 the moss, in woods and wet shady places. It is glossy, very thin, 

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