30 BRITISH MOLLUSKS. 



1. haliotidea. Animal comparatively smooth, linearly grooved 



in a veined manner, yellowish. Shell small, subtriangular, 

 depressed. 



2. Maugei. Animal more rngose, linearly grooved at the sides, 



olive mottled with brown. Shell larger, subquadrately ovate, 

 convex. 



1. Testacella haliotidea. LTaliotis-like Testacella. 



Animal ; body yellowish, finely veined with linear grooves, speckled 



with dots and punctures. 

 Shell; triangularly ear-shaped, depressed, covered 



by a dark fibrous epidermis. 



Testacella, Cuvier (1800) , Legons d'Anat. Comp. vol. i. tabl. 5. 

 Testacella haliotidea, Draparnaud (1801), Tabl. Moll. p. 99. 

 Testacella Europ(Ba,'Roiasj (1805), Buff, de Sonn. vol. v. p. 252. pi. 53. f. 8. 

 Helix subterranea,Jj^on-d\i-Civ\\da. (1806), Desc. du Lot-et-Graronne, p. 143. 

 Testacella Gallia, Oken (1815), Lehrb. der Naturg. p. 212. pi. 9. f. 8. 

 Testacella scutulum, Sowerby (1823), Genera of Shells, f. 3. 

 Testacella bisulcata, Eisso (1826), Hist. Nat. Europ. Merid. vol. iv. p. 58. 

 Testacella Companyonii, Dupuy (1846), Hist. Moll. p. 47. pi. 1. f. 3. 

 Testacella Galloprovincialis, Grrateloup (1855), Limac. p. 15. 

 Testacella Canigonensis Limax, Grateloup (1855), Limac. p. 15. 

 Testacella Medii-Templi, Tapping (1856), Zoologist, vol. xiv. p. 5105. 

 Hab. — Canary Islands, Channel Islands, Spain, Algeria, Central and South 

 of France, South of England and Ireland. 

 The published drawings of T. haliotidea vary so much in appear- 

 ance, that they seem to represent different species, but the truth is, 



