EULOTA FRUTICUM. 



Pyramidula suttonensis (S. V. Wood). 



1872. Helix Suttonensis, S. V. Wood, Mou. Crag Moll., 1st SuppL, p. 2, pi. i, fig. 2. 



1890. Helix suttonensis, C. Reid, Plioc. Dep. Brit., p. 220, pi. v, fig. 2. 



1899. Pyramidxda suttonensis, Keiiuard and B. B. Woodward, Proc. Malac. Soc, vol. iii, p. 190. 



1909. Pijramidula sntlonensis, Taylor, Land Freshw. Moll. Brit., vol. iii, p. 195, fig. 248. 



Specific Charactevfi. — See Moii. Crag Moll., 1st SuppL, p. 2. 



Dimensions. — Diam. G mm. H. 3'5 mm. 



Distribution. — Not known living. 



Fossil : Coralline Crag : Sutton. 



BenmrJcs. — This species was described by Wood from a unique specimen found 

 in the Coralline Crag at Sutton ; it still remains the only perfect example of a 

 helicoid mollusc known from that deposit. It may possibly be a variety of the 

 Madeiran shell P. hifroris, and, like the last species, related to the Recent 

 molluscan fauna of that island. 



Genvs EULOTA, Hartmann, 1821. 



Eulota fruticum (Mi'iller). Plate I, fig 1. 



1774. Helix fruticum, Miiller, Yerm. terr. fiuv. Hist., pt. ii, p. 71, no. 267. 

 1850. Helix fruticum, S. V. Wood, Mon. Crag Moll., pt. ii, p. 308, tab. xxxi, fig. 19. 

 1875. Helix {Eulota) fruticum, Sandberger, Land Sussw. Conch. Yorw., p. 813, pi. xxxiv, fig. 3. 

 1897-1901. Eulota fruticum, Kennard and B. B. Woodward, Essex Nat., vol. x, pp. 106-7 et seq., fig. 7, 

 1897; Proe. Malae. Soc, vol. iii, p. 191, 1899 ; Proc. Geol. Assoc, vol. xvii, p. 253, pi. xxxvii, fig. 7, 1901. 

 1909. Eulota fruticum, Taylor, Laud Frasliw. Moll. Brit., vol. iii, p. 205, fig. 268. 



Specific Characters. — Shell rather strong, globose, varying in size; whorls 5 or 

 0, convex, the last much the largest ; ornamented by very fine and unequal spiral 

 stride and by the lines of growth ; suture deep ; mouth oblique, lunate, rounded ; 

 lip sharp and slightly expanded; umbilicus open and deep. 



Dimensions. — Diam. 18-24 mm. H. 17-20 mm. 



Distrilndion. — Tiecent : not knoAvn in Great Britain; widely distributed over the 

 Palaearctic region from the Pyrenees to Kamtschatka (Taylor) ; North Africa 

 (Locard). 



Fossil : Butleyan Crag : Hollesley. 



Pleistocene: Stutton, Ilford, Grantchester, Barnwell; Germany; Austria; 

 France; Italy. Holocene: Belgium; Germany; Denmark; Sweden. 



Bemarlis. — This extra-British species was recorded by S. V. Wood from the 

 Pleistocene deposit at Stutton only, but in 1885 it was discovered by the late 



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