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not perceptible. It would appear^ therefore (he 
continues), that the animal has the power to retain 
or emit its peculiar odour at pleasure, and that in 
death its emission may be prevented by accidental 
circumstances : he thinks it arises from the yellow 
fluid pressed out about the head. 
26 . 2. ZoNiTES cellarius. Cellar Snail. — Shell flat, 
pale yellowish horn-colour, transparent, shining, 
very slightly wrinkled, with 5 or 5^ whorls ; 
the under side clouded with opaque white ; um- 
bilicus moderately large, exposing the second 
whorl, (t. 4. f. 40.) 
Helix cellaria. Muller^ Verm. 28.; Lam. Hist.m.; Alder., Cat, 
12. 11 . 47.; Mag. Zool. and Bat ii. 208. — Helix nitida. Drap. 
Moll. 117. t. 8. f. 28. 25.; Brard, 31. t. 2. f. 2. — Zonites 
cellarius. Gray., Manual., 170. t. 4. f. 40.; Forbes and Han- 
ley^ B. M. iv. 33. t. 120. f. 1, 2, 3. t. H H H. f. 3. — Oxy- 
chilus cellaria. Fitz. Sys. t. 100. — ■ Polita cellaria. Held. 
I.ns., 1837, 906. — Helicella cellaria, and H. Draparnaudii. 
Beck., Ind. 6. — Zonites (Aplostoma) cellarius. Moq. Tand. M. 
Franc, ii. 78. t. 9. f. 1, 2. — Vortex cellaria. Oken, Lehrh. iii. 
314. — Helix nitens. Maton and Racket., Linn. Trans, viii. 
198. t. 5. f. 7.; Ferussac., Prod. — Helix lucida. Montag. T. 
B. 425. t. 23. f. 4.; Turt. Man. ed. 1. f. 40. — Zonites lucida. 
Leach, Moll. Syn. 75. 
Inhab. under stones in fields and woods, and in 
cellars and yards in cities. 
Animal pale grey, white when young. 
Shell rather less than half an inch in diameter, 
but sometimes growing to nearly three quarters of 
inch, glossy, and irregularly 
striate, with 5 or 5f volutions, 
which are well defined by the 
suture ; underneath milky-white. 
