542 THE LAND SNAILS OF NEW ENGLAND. 
the writer collected a great many, stated that the snails 
annoyed her by crawling into her pans of milk. We can 
well imagine an enthusiastic collector delighted in being 
able to dredge specimens from the bottom of his coffee- 
cup at the breakfast table ! 
Another species, a true native however, though much 
resembling an English species, is HELIX ARBOREA Say.* 
Fig. 30. (Fig. 30.) This is extremely common in 
\ ax, New England, and there is hardly an old 
Gao log by the roadside but that shelters them. 
j The shell is thin, pellucid, polished, and of 
© S a brownish horn-color ; whorls four to five, 
slightly increasing in size. Umbilicus not large; diam- 
eter about one-sixth of an inch, though occasionally 
larger. 
HELIX ELECTRINA Gould (Fig. 31) resembles the last 
species somewhat, being of the same size, though its color 
sen is darker, and the whorls rapidly en- 
©) large. In this latter character it re- 
sembles Helix indentata, though differ- 
ing from that species by its dark smoky horn-color, and 
its open umbilicus. It occurs in damper situations, often- 
times under leaves near stågnant pools of water. 
Biıxseraxa Morse (Fig. 32) resembles M. al 
dentata very much, and has always been confounded with 
Fig. 32. that species ; it differs in always having 
an open umbilicus, and the color a 
ss different, being a greenish white, while 
/ H. indentata is white, with a pinkish 
tinge. The differences are very marked in certain Mir 
_ eroscopical characters of the animal. 
we ne malor figuros accompanying the cuts represent the natural size of the 
