46 COLIMACEA. 



Found on old walls, under stones, and the bark of trees, in 

 many parts of Great Britain and Ireland ; it is abundant in the 

 latter country, as well as all its islands, especially where lime- 

 stone and chalk prevail. 



6. Pupa Anglica, pi. V, f. 7, 8. 



Pupa Anglica, Potiez and Michaud, Gal., I, p. 195, pi. 20, 

 f, 1, 2; Alder, Mag. Zool.and Bot., II, p. Ill; Thompson, 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., VI, p. 38 ; Brown, lUust. Conch., p. 

 40, pi. 18, f. 35, 36 ; Pupa ringens, Jeffreys, Linn. Tr., XVI, 

 p. 356; Pupa tridentalis, Michaud, Compl., p. 61, pi. 15, f. 28, 

 30; Vertigo Anglica, Ferussac, Moll.; Turton, Man., p. 102, f. 

 82 ; Turho Anglicus, Wood, Cat. Sup., pi. 6, f. n. 



Shell ventricose, glossy ; body short ; spire long, consisting 

 of five or six inflated volutions, well defined by the suture, the 

 two superior ones decreasing in size rather suddenly ; aperture 

 somewhat elliptical, provided with five teeth, two on the base 

 of the body, one of them central, and the other small and 

 tubercular, one at the superior portion of the outer angle, 

 parallel with, and united to the outer lip, and so much curved, 

 as nearly to unite with a tubercle which is situate near the top 

 of the outer lip, and forming a nearly circular area betwixt 

 them ; and an oblique, rather sharp tooth situate on the colu- 

 mella ; outer lip flattened in front, reflected, and of a brownish 

 hue ; pillar lip broad, with a deep circular umbilicus behind it ; 

 whole shell with slight, longitudinal strias, and covered with a 

 dark reddish-brown or chocolate-coloured epidermis, and fre- 

 quently grayish towards the apicial region. Length two lines ; 

 diameter one line. 



This interesting species, long considered as pecuHar to 

 England, inhabits woody situations, and has been found in 

 various localities, namely, near Bristol, Exeter, Lancashire, and 

 Twizil House, Northumberland ; in Scotland it has been met 

 with in a wood at Corstorphin, near Edinburgh, and at Ballan- 

 trae, Ayrshire, by Mr. Thompson of Belfast ; who also found 

 it in the County of Londonderry, Ireland, at the side of 

 the river Bann, near its junction with the ocean, also in 

 numerous localities throughout Down and Antrim, and on 

 the mountain of Benbulben in Sligo, glen of the Downs, 

 Wicklow, and at the lower lake of Killarney ; Mr. W. H. 



