606 THE LAND SNAILS OF NEW ENGLAND. 
Halictus nests, and both species were found in a single 
Andrena nest. 
The interesting history of the Oil-beetle (Meloé) and 
its wonderful transformations, and of the Stylops and 
other bee-parasites, cannot now detain us. We hope to 
lay an account of them before our readers at some future 
time. 
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THE LAND SNAILS OF NEW ENGLAND. 
BY EDWARD S. MORSE. 
(Continued from page 547.) 
THe genus Succinea, of which we have three marked 
species in New England, is furnished with a thin, trans- 
lucent, and elastic shell. The soft parts resemble those 
of Helix, but the creeping disk is quite short and broad, 
and the tentacles are short and swollen at their bases. 
The shell is entirely unlike Helix, being ovate-conic, and 
not rolled in a plane. 
Succrnea Torrentana. (Fig. 46.) Shell ovate, amber- 
colored, thin, translucent, shining. Whorls about three, 
Fig. 46, the last very large; spire not prominent, su- 
ture distinct. The aperture is three-fourths 
( ~a\ the length of the shell, and so open that the 
f PA animal when contracted within the shell is plainly 
j] visible. Length of shell from § to ł of an inch. 
The animal is at a salmon-color, and the shell is 
sufficiently translucent to reveal the color of the viscera 
n. This species appears to be confined to New Eng- 
land and the Provinces. It is represented in the Western 
States by S. obliqua, a heavier and larger shell. It 
occurs in woods and fields. Sometimes found in great 
numbers in the roadways after a heavy dew. 
