HELIX. 
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Drap. p. 102. t. 7. f. 6. ; Fer. Prod, 43. ; Alder Mag, Z. and 
B, iii . 107. — ? Helix turturum. Gmelin,, S, N, — Helix 
Altenana. Kless. Test Tubing, — corrugata and H. 
clandestina. Hartm, N, Alp, p. 256. — Helix montana. 
C, Pfeiffer,, D, Moll. iii. 3. t. 6. f. 10. — Helix circinata, 
H. caelata and C. montana. Studer^ Schw, Conch, 12. ; Ross, 
Icon. t. 63. f. 10. — Fruticola circinata. Held. Isis^ 1837, 914. 
— Bradjb^ena rufescens and B. circinata and B. caelata. 
Beck^ Ind. 20. — Helix striolata. C. Pfeiffer., D. Moll, iii. 
28. t. 6. f. 8. — Helix rufina. Parreys., in Pfeiff, Symb, 
i. 39. — Helix Parreysi. Fitz, Verz. 
Inhab. gardens and hedges. 
Animal black-grey ; upper tentacles thick. 
Shell growing to three quarters of an inch in 
diameter, but often smaller, semitransparent, vary- 
ing from pale ash-colour to rufous brown, jpig^ 33 ^ 
often marbled and mottled with paler or 
darker blotches, rarely pure white, slightly 
carinate in the middle of the larger volu- 
tion by a paler band; aperture semielliptic, thin, 
and slightly reflected, longer than broad. Both the 
young and old shells are quite bald. (fig. 38.) 
Montagu, and all who have copied from him, 
have represented the young of this species as clothed 
with hairs. He probably mistook the hispida 
for it. 
Lister gives some details of the anatomy of this 
species (^Anat t. 4. f. 4.). 
The shell varies greatly in colour, being generally 
reddish brown, but passing from that colour to 
nearly transparent or translucent white; and in 
shape and size. Tab. 4. f. 36., which Dr. Turton, 
in the first edition, gave for H. fusca^ appears to 
represent a small higher variety of this species, 
which is often met with near Battersea. 
