FAMILY LYMNVEACEA. 157 



1. Iiymnsea limosa. Mud Lymncea. 



Shell ; obliquely ovate, eompressly minutely umbilicated, rather 



thin, yellowish horny, spire 



short, acuminated, whorls four, a a 



convex, irregularly striated in 31 



the direction of the lines of K tt 



growth, the last much the J ,';\ ^ " \pT'^-r 



largest, ventricosefy inflated ; 



aperture ovate, columella arcu- 



ately twisted, lip broadly ap- 



pressed over the umbilicus. 

 Helix limosa, Linnseus (1758), Syst. Nat. 10th edit. p. 774. 

 Buccinum peregrum, Miiller (1774), Verm. Hist, part ii. p. 130. 

 Helix putris, Pennant (1777), Brit. Zool. p. 139. f. 137 (not of Linnseus). 

 Helix peregra, inflata, and teres, Grnelin (1788), Syst. Nat. p. 3659, 66, 67. 

 Buccinum medium and rivale, Studer (1789), Faun. Helv. Coxe, Trav. in 



Switz. vol. iii. p. 433, 434. 

 Bulimus pereger, Bruguiere (1789), Enc. MetTi. Vers, p. 301. 

 Bulimus limosus, Poiret (1801), Coq. de VAisne, p. 39. 

 Limneus pereger, Draparnaud (1801), Tahl. Moll. p. 48. 

 Helix lutea, Montagu (1S03), Test. Brit. p. 380. pi. xvi. f. 6. 

 Limneus ovatus, Draparnaud (1805), Hist. Moll. p. 50. pi. ii. f. 30, 31. 

 Limneus fontinalis, Studer (1820), Kurz. Yerz. p. 93. 

 Limnceus tmlgaris, C. Pfeiffer (1821), Lent. Moll. vol. i. p. 89. pi. iv. f. 22. 

 Limnea intermedia, Ferussac (1822), Lam. Anim. vol. vi. part 2. p. 162. 

 Lymncea limosa, Fleming (1828), Brit. Anim. p. 274. 

 Lymncea pidris, Fleming (1830), LZdhn. JSncyc. vol. vii. p. 77. 

 Chdnaria peregra, Leach (1831), Tart. Man. p. 146. 



Limnea marginata, Michaud (1831), Comp. de Drap. p. 88. pi. xvi. f. 15, 16. 

 Limnea thermalis, Boubee (1833), Bull. Hist. Nat. p. 28. 

 Limnea lineata, Bean (1834), Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. vii. p. 493. f. 62. 

 Gulnaria ovata, Beck (1837), Ltd. Moll. p. 114. 

 Lymnea lacustris, Potiez and Michaud (1838), Moll, de Louai, vol. i. p. 



219. pi. xxii. f. 11, 12. 

 Lymncea pen grina, Mauduyt (1839), Moll, de la Vienne, p. 95. 

 Amphipeplea lacustris, Brown (1845), Illus. Conch, p. 30. pi. xv. f. 24. 

 Limncea Burnetii, Alder (1848), Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 2. vol. ii. 



p. 396. pi. xi. f. 1 to 3. 

 Limncea glacialis, Dupuy (1849), Cat . Extr. Test. no. 199. 

 Limncea Trencaleonis and Nouletiana, Gassies (181-9), Moll, de V Agenais, 



p. 163 and 166. 

 Lymncea Hookeri, Reeve (1850), Pro. Zool. Soc. Lond. part 18. p. 49. 



