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HELICID^. 
the older conchologists often confounded it, by there 
being no appearance of any oblique fold on the 
pillar. 
Montagu justly observes that the animal, like the 
other Limaces possessing four tentacula, is herma- 
phrodite, and sometimes unites as late as the month 
of August. (^Test. Brit. 398. and Sup. 139.) 
It is named from the transparent amber colour of 
its shell. 
They are found in damp marshy places on the mud, 
water-flags, &c., but are scarcely to be considered as 
amphibious, for they are never found in the water, 
like the LimncEi or Pond snails. The jaw is thick, 
with a central prominence ; the teeth are truly 
helicine in their conformation, the central strong, 
apex three-pointed, the lateral thick, robust, with 
two unequal oblique lobes. 
The eggs are globular, yellowish-hyaline, adhering 
in agglutinated masses to plants and stones. 
Epiphragm thin, membranaceous, transparent. 
62 . 1. SucciKEA putris. Common Amber Snail. 
— Shell oblong-oval, smooth, glossy, and trans- 
parent, reddish amber colour; whorls three; 
aperture oblong-oval. (t. 4. f. 73.) 
Turbo tri-anfractus. Da Costa^ 92. — Succinea amphibia. 
Drap, Tabl. 55. ; Hist. Moll. 58. t. 3. f. 22, 23. ; Lam. H. vi. 
135.; Drard.^ p. 72. t. 3. f. 1.; Sowerhy, Gen. f. 3.; Turt. 
Man. ed. 1. p. 91. — Succinea Miilleri. Leach., Syn. Moll. 
58. Succinea putris. Flem. B. A. 267.; Jeffreys., Linn. 
Trans, xvi. 325. 505.; Gray., Man. 178.; Forhes and Hanley., 
B. M. iv. 132. t. 131. f. 1 — 5.; Moq. Tandon., Moll. Franc. 
ii. 55. t. 7. f. 1. 5. — Helix putris. Linn. S. N. 1. 1249.; 
Donov. B. S. t. 168. f. L; Moiit. p. 376. t. 16. f. 14. — Helix 
