HELIX auriculata. 

 Eared Helix, 



Generic Character, 

 Testa ofblcularis vel globosa. Spira depressa vel paululum elevata. Apertura 



Integra. Labium exterius marginatum. Operculum nullum. 

 Shell orbicular or globose. Spire depressed, or but slightly elevated. 



Aperture entire. Outer lip margined. Operculum, none. 



Specific Character. 



H. testa depressissimd,Jerrugineo-marmoratd et hifasciuta, umhilico magno,pro- 

 fundo, apertura aurijormi ; labio exteriore incrassato, margine interiore 



dente obsoleto. 

 Shell much depressed, marbled and doubly-banded with ferrugineous. 



Umbilicus large, deep. Aperture ear-shaped. Outer lip thickened, 



reflected, with a gibbous obsolete tooth within. 



A SHELL no less remarkable for its form than its extreme rarity. 

 The mouth bears a most striking resemblance to the human ear ; 

 and the only specimen known in this country is the one here 

 figured, from the cabinet of Ch. Dubois, Esq., who obligingly 

 favoured me with it for examination ; neitlier does the exquisite 

 work on the Land Shells, by M. de Ferrusac, now publishing 

 at Paris, contain this species among the numerous matchless 

 figures already given of this family. 



In the present uncertainty respecting the natural groups of the 

 genus Helix, as left by Lamarck, I have preferred for the present 

 following the example of Cuvier and de Ferrusac, in placing it 

 with that family, in preference to adopting the ill-defined and 

 palpably artificial distribution of them by D. de Montfort, or 

 of forming a new genus for its reception. 



The variegations in its colouring are better seen in the figures 

 than described. The whole shell is slighdy marked with obso- 

 lete longitudinal striae ; the umbiUcus is very deep, and the tooth 

 does not extend externally beyond the margin of the lij^. 

 PI. 9, 



