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HELICID^. 
Tableau/’ published in 1801, contains any charac- 
ters, never having seen the work. This is excus- 
able, as the Abbe Dupery very properly observes, 
^^Elle est d’autant moins etonnante chez un 
etranger, que, meme en France, le petit volume de 
Draparnaud, devenu fort rare, est inconnu d’un 
grand nombre de naturalistes, et qu’il n’a ete, jusqu’a 
present que tres-rarement cite par nos auteurs 
francais ” (Preface, xiii.) ; and the claim to priority is 
not very strong, for M. Moquin Tandon, in speaking 
of the ^^Prodromus” of Poiret, and the Tableau” 
of Draparnaud, observes, — ^^On remarque deja, 
dans Fun et Fautre livre, quelles distinctions spe- 
cifiques ne sont plus aussi tranchees que dans le 
petit traite de Greoffroy so the books are not to 
be compared to the elaborate work, accompanied 
by good figures, of Montagu. 
M. Moquin Tandon has shown that Poiret’s 
name has precedence, by a few months, of that 
used by M. Draparnaud, as his has over Mon- 
tagu’s. {Moll. Franc, ii. 239.) 
45. 12. PIelix virgata. Zoned Snail. — Shell some- 
what globular, white, with from one to six brown * 
bands more or less interrupted ; the mouth 
dull rufous ; umbilicus moderate, (t. 4. f. 31.) 
Helix virgata. Montagu^ p. 415. t. 24. f. 1. ; Tetiver^ Gaz. t. 17. 
f. 6.; Turton^ Man. ed. 1. 40. f. 31.; Forbes and Hanley., 
B. M. iv. 57. t. 117. f. 10. — Cochlea virgata. Da Costa., B. C. 
79. t. 4. f. 7. 1778. — Teba virgata. Leach., Moll. Syn. 68. — 
Helix variabilis. Drap. Tail. 73. 1801, Hist^. 84. it. 5. f. 11, 
12. ; Ferussac., Journ. Phys. 297. ; Bossm. Icon. t. 26. f. 356. 
a. f. ; Moq, Tand. Moll. Franc, ii. 262. t. 19. f. 21 — 26. — 
Helix striata. Brard., Coq. Paris., p. 36. t. 2. f. 5, 6. — Helix 
