72 LAND SHELLS. 



plants, the west, and probably the greater part 

 of Asia Minor, is but the tail-end of a great 

 natural-history province, the richest sections of 

 which may be regarded as Greece, and the south 

 of Italy. Two-thirds of the land and fresh-water 

 shells of Lycia are species found also in Greece 

 and Italy, and nearly one-third identical with 

 British forms. 



Land shells are very scarce, — much scarcer than 

 in any other part of the shores of the iEgean. 

 They are not only few in species, but also few as 

 to individuals ; which is remarkable, considering 

 the abundance of limestone, and that the scaglia 

 is in more western countries by no means un- 

 favourable to their presence. In maritime Lycia 

 the species usually found under loose blocks of lime- 

 stone are a large and handsome Clausilia* Helix 

 carthusiana, lenticida, algira, cellarid, and two or 

 three other species. A large snail, allied to Helix 

 spiriplana of Olivier, and named Helix Codring- 

 toni by Mr. Grey, occasionally occurs in such 

 situations ; as also does the common snail of 

 England, Helix aspersa, usually more brilliantly 

 banded, however, than it is with us. In similar 

 situations more inland, as among the wooded 

 * Clausilia Forbesiana, Pfeiffer, a new species. 



