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380 Bones Monograph, of the Helices 
all the volutions, slightly chtit by the reflected a 
lip? base rounded, with, the strite; distinct, converg-. 
ing into the umbilicus. ` x E ho * 
Transverse diameter commonly less than one inc ; V 
but there are specimens in the Philadelphia Mus LY 
* from Mr. Hyde’s texan méasuring one inch and 2 
three quarters. — — d 
5 . *GEOGRAPHICAL Co — Inhabits all the Á 
northern parts of the United States, from. Illinois to 
Maine. Is rather common a the slopes of the Green ^ 
intains in Vermont. — 
Remarks. "This - isa e species, with E 
delicate, shining Ae ae It is. t likely to be fe ' 
taken for any other species excep i Ax profunda, = | 
. Say, from which it is distinguished. by. its inferior 
size and solidity, sits. narrow lip, and less circular 
aperture, the absence of the brown lines arid ban 
and the presence of the tooth on the pillar lip. It 
varies in the greater or less depression of the spi 
and is Sometimes destitute of the tooth on the. pillar 
lip. 
On the third abe of July, 1836, I discovered an 
individual of this species in the act of laying its eggs 
~in a damp place under alog. I transferred them, 
the animal, to a tin box filled with wet moss. 
"The eggs were not mue | more than half as large as 
- those, of HeLIx albólabris, Sav; they were white, 
adhering together very slightly” flaccid, and appar- 
ently not | tirely filled with fluid. During the 
A. succeeding n. t the number had increased to about 
a “fifty, and in in a few hours they became full and dis- 
tended. As the snail now began to devour the eggs 
