PLATE CXXXII, 



Helix H^emastoma : testa globoso-conoidea, ventricosa imper- 

 forata, rufo-castanea inferae albo-zonata ; apice 

 roseo, apertura latere dilitata : fundo albo ; colu- 

 mellae labroque purpureis. Lamarck Anim, 

 sans Vert. t. 6. p- 2- n. /O. , 



native ol' Ceylon. This is a very fine and rare species of the 

 Helix tribe, and not less remarkable for the beauty than singularity 

 of its appearance. The prevailing colour is dark fuscous brown, but 



inclining to testaceous on the spire, and at the base. ' 



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The greater wreath of the shell is surrounded by a broad white 

 band, and which is so situated, that when the shell lies in such a 

 situation that the brown space and band surrounding the umbilical 

 region is concealed, suggests the idea of the greater whorl being half 

 brown and half white, the brown occupying the space from the an- 

 fractal line of the spire down to the middle, and the basal half pure 

 white, the two colours meeting and forming a distinct line round the 

 centre of the convexity . The rich crimson hue of the pillar and the 

 lip of the aperture is very fine when those shells are in good condition. 



It should be distinctly understood, that this is the Helix 

 hsemastoma of Linnaeus, and not of Chemnitz ; this last mentioned 

 author appears to have mistaken another shell, the Helix Melanotragus 

 of Born and Daubenton for the Linnaean Helix Haemastoma, and 

 described it accordingly. \ As this species of Chemnitz bears rather 

 a close affinity to the Linnsean shell in the opinion of some con- 

 chologists, we shall introduce it to notice in the ensuing plate, and the 

 reader will be thus enabled to perceive the distinctions that prevail 

 between these two shells. 



