TAYLOR : VARIATIOX OF LIMN.tlA PEREGRA. 295 



This is also the Helix auricidaria of Rackett's edition of 

 Pulteney's Dorset, pi. xxi., fig. 17. The original figure is 

 shown in DaCosta's Test. Brit., pi. v., fig. 17. 



'I'he specimen figured was given me in 1867 by Mr. J. 

 Pickering, of London, and Dr. Jeffreys, to whom I submitted 

 it during the same year, considered it to be the variety ovata 

 Drap., but a comparison of the figure now given with that of 

 the true variety ovata will show that he was not so exact as 

 usual in this determination. 



Var. ovata Drap. Slitll ampullaceous and rather thinner than usual, 

 whorls convex, spire short, mouth 

 oblong. 



This is, perhaps, the best 

 known of all the varieties of 

 peregra, and in the opinion of 

 some of the more critical con- 

 chologists is really the Helix 

 liniosa of Linne'. If this can be 



satisfactorily established the species would take the name liinosa 

 L., in lieu oi peregra Miill. 



Under this head may be placed the variety dicliinii of 

 Kobelt, and judging from the figure given by Sowerby, in 

 Conch. Icon., I am also inclined to place the Japanese Liinncca 

 japonica Jay here also. 



M. Bourguignat gives L. lineata Bean as synonymous with 

 L. dickinii Kobelt, but a comparison of the original figures of 

 L. liiieattis by Bean in Loudon's Mag. Nat. Hist, Oct., 1834, 

 p. 493, and of var. dickinii by Kobelt in Rossmassler's Icono- 

 graphie, pi. 129, fig. 1254, will show that this view is erroneous. 



The outlines given are carefully copied from the original 

 figures by Draparnaud in his Hist. ]\Iol!. France, pi. ii., fig. 30, 31. 



