HELIX. 257 



Helix TrumhuUi, Linsley, Shells of Conn. (Sill. Journ. [i], XLVIII. 280), = 



Skcnra scrpuloiden. Sco Vol. IV. 125. 

 Helix }Klhtcida, Fahkicius — Vitrina Amjelidcc. 

 Helix arhuslorum. See Vol. IV. 124, and Adams, Cat. Cabinet, 32. Does not 



inliabit America. 

 Helix hicnxjlyphica, Bf,ck, Ind. Am. Sept.? See Vol. IV. 124. 

 Helix domcslica, StkoM. See Vitrina Atigelicce, 

 Helix dcalbata, Say = Bulimulus. 

 Helix corpuloides. See Vol. IV. 124. 



Hdix Bonplaiidi, Lamarck. See VoL IV. 124. Jay, Cat., ed. 2, 33. Ten- 

 nessee. 

 Helix haliotoides, Fabricius, Fauna Groenl., 390 (1780) = Sigaretus. 

 Helix hcligmoidcay D'Orb. (Ophiogyra), is said to have been found by Mr. H. 



Moores in 1849, in the Zoot Hills of the west slope of the Sierra Nevada, about 



five miles south of Coloma, and about a quarter of a mile south of Weber Creek, 



under an old log ; a single old specimen. 



The species is described from Guyaquil, Columbia, South America. 

 Helix virginea. Wood, Ind. Suppl., p. 21, Fig. 19 = Melania Virginica. 

 Helix urceuSy Muller, Dillwyn, Cat., II. 918 = Ampullaria. 

 Helix fuscata. Born, Mus. Vind., 1780, 390, PI. XVI. Fig. 17. Virginia. 

 Helix irrorata, Say = H. lactea, Muller. See VoL IV. 124. Does not now 



exist in America, 

 Helix rastellum, Beck, Ind., 8. Am. s. 

 Helix pcrsmiata, Lamarck, Ohio. Jay, Cat., ed. 2, 36, 1836, and Villa, Disp., 



14, 1841. 

 Helix punctata, Dillwyn, Cat., II. 899, is from Martinique, not Virginia. 

 Helix ruderata, Studer, Anthony, Ohio Cat., No. 31 = striatella? 

 Helix variabilis, Drap., North America. See Forbes, Brit. Ass. Rep., 1840, 



145; see also Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., III. 489 ; F^russac, Tabl. Syst., 48. 

 Helix {Eurycratera) lineolata. Lam., is erroneously quoted from North America by 



Beck (Index, 45). 

 Helix Steenstrupii, Morch. Greenland. I can find no description of it. Vide 



Vol. IV. 117. 

 Helix subcarinata, Wood (Index, Suppl., PL VII. Fig. 13) = Leptoxis. 

 Helix dissimilis, Wood (Index, SuppL, PL VII. Fig. 18) = Melantho decisa. 

 Helix decisa^ Wood (Index, Suppl., PL VII. Fig. 19) = Liojjlax subcarinata. 

 Helix bidentifera, Phillips (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., I. 27, 1841), North 



Carolina — H. barbula, Charp., of Portugal (1. c. p. 133). 

 Helix palustris, Rackett = Limnoea palustris. 

 Helix angulata, Rackett = Planorbis bicarinatus. 

 Helix albclla, Dillwyn, Cat., II. 890. Virginia. 



Fossil Species of Helix. 

 Dr. Meek furnishes the following list of fossil species : — 



Helix Leidyi, Hall & Meek, Am. Acad. Arts and Sci., Boston, V. 394, new ser. 

 Helix amplexus, Meek & Hayden, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., 1861, 431. 

 = Planorbis amplexus, M. & H., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., 1857, 135. 

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