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colour rather opake, suddenly sloping in a conic 

 manner, the volutions hardly raised, slightly striate 

 longitudinally, and crossed with more remote trans- 

 verse ones, like the facets of cut glass ; aperture 

 oval, covering nearly half the shell, often chocolate- 

 brown and glossy in the inside, sometimes rosy 

 about the pillar, w^here the peritreme is spread 

 and glossy, forming a slight umbilicus. 



In marshes and ponds. 



108. LiMNEUs fossanus. Shell oblong-oval, with 

 six or seven rounded and deeply divided volutions, 

 striolate longitudinally and across. 



Limneus minutus. Drap. p. 53. t. 3.f. 5, 6. 

 Lymneus minutus. Brard, lu ^3^, t. 5.f. 8, 9. 

 Lymna^a minuta. Lamarcky vi. ii. j^j. 162. 

 Stagnicola minuta. Leach, Mollusc, p. 143. 

 Helix fossaria. Mont. j). 372. t. 16./. 9. 



b. conic-oval, less glossy-brown and smooth. 

 Drap.p. 53. t. 3./. 7. 



c. with refjular lono-itudinal striae. 



d. with the lower volution flattened at top, in 

 the centre of which are sunk the other volu- 

 tions. 



