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AURICULID^, 
be seen obscurely indicated in some Ophicardelli and 
the other genera. 
This family contains only two British genera : — - 
1. Carychium. Shell ovate ; mouth oblong, three- 
toothed; peristome reflexed, (p. 219. f. 1, 2.) 
2. Conovulus, Shell ovate ; mouth linear ; pillar 
with two or three plaits, (p. 219. f. 4, 5.) 
1. Carychium Muller. (Carychium.) 
Shell spiral, thin, conic-ovate ; mouth oblong, lon- 
Fig. 45. gitudlnal, two- or three- 
toothed, compressed, rather 
oblique, rounder at each 
end; peristome interrupted, 
thickened and rather reflexed, (p. 219. f. 2.) 
87. 1. Carychium minimum. Minute Sedge Shell, 
(t. 7. f. 77.) 
Carychium minimum. Muller^ Verm. ii. 125. ; Jeffreys^ L. T. 
xvi. 365. ; Leach., Syn. Moll. 95. ; Forbes and Hanley., B. M. 
iv. 198. t. 125. f. 8. — Turbo Carychium. Mont. p. 339. 
t. 22. f. 2., Linn. Trans, viii. 184. — Auricella Carychium. 
Hartmann., in Sturm., Fauna., y\\. t. 1. — Auricula minima. 
Drap. p. 57. t. 3. f. 18, 19. — Odostomia Carychium. Flem. 
Fd. Ency. vii. 76. -—Helix Carychium. Gmel. S. M. i. 
3665. ■ — Hulimus minimus. Poiret., Prod. — Seraphia tri- 
dentata. JRisso, Eur. Merid. iv. 84. - — Carychium minu- 
tissimum. Ferussac. 
At the roots of grass and moss in moist places. 
(^Mr. Boys.) 
The animal is yellowish white, with only two short 
cylindrical, blunt, or truncated tentacles, at the base 
of which, between or nearly behind them, are placed 
two very conspicuous approximating black eyes. 
