64 HELICIDA. 
of check pattern, surrounded with a single band of dark 
brown; lip white and thick; wmbilicus indistinct. 
This is a rather local species, inhabiting dry ditches. 
Where it is found it is abundant. In some parts of 
Derbyshire the white variety occurs in great profusion 
with the type. 
Var. I. flavescens. Yellowish white, without any 
circular band. 
Var. II. major. Larger, more depressed. 
Var. III. alpestris. Smaller, spire raised. 
Var. IV. fusca. Dark brown, with or without the 
band, very thin. 
7. H. Cantina (Kentish). 
Compressed, thin, dull, creamy white with a slight tinge 
of pink; closely striated in the line of growth; whorls six 
to seven, rounded, not keeled; spire short, obtuse; mouth 
pink inside; wmbilicus narrow, but deep. 
This shell is found in Northumberland, Yorkshire, 
Wales, and some of the southern counties of England. 
Where it occurs it is common. 
When young it is covered with hairs, which after- 
wards disappear. 
8. H. CartustAna (named after a Carthusian monastery). 
Sub-conic, depressed, thick, not very glossy, yellowish 
