CONOVULUS. 
193 
— Auricula personata. Pot. and Mich. Cat. i. 250. ; Desk. 
Lam. ed. 2. viii. 332. — Carychium personatum. Mich. 
Compl. 73. t. 15. f. 42, 43. — Carychium (Phytia) myosotis. 
Moq. Tand. M. F. ii. 417. t. 29. f. 33—39. t. 30. f. 1—4. — 
Auricula ciliata. Morelet^ Moll. Portug. 77. t. 7. f. 4. — Alexia 
ciliata. Pfciff. Aur. 150. — Auricula myosotis, var. a. Feruss. 
Prod. 103. — Auricula denticulata. Jeffreys., Linn. Trans. 
xvi. 367. — Auricula tenella. Menhe, Syn. 131. — Pythia 
denticulata. Beck., Ind. — Conovulus denticulatus. Gray., 
Man. 225. f. 144. — Jaminia denticulata, and J. quinqueden- 
tata. Brown. — Alexia denticulata. Leach, Syn. Moll. ; 
Pfeiffer, Auricul. 145. — Carychius (Ovatella) denticulata, 
Moq. Tand. M. F. ii. 415. t. 29. f. 27—29. 
Var. myosotis, shell stronger, lips less toothed: Auricula 
myosotis. Drap. Hist. 56. t. 3. f. 16, 17. — Carychium 
myosotis. Michaud, Comp. 73. — Voluta denticulata. 
Berkeley, Zool. Jour. v. 428. — Melampus denticulatus. 
Stimps. t. 19. f. 3. — Auricula denticulata. Gould, Inv. 
Massa. 199. t. 129. — Pythia myosotis. Gray, Med. Repos. 
1821 ; Beck, Ind. 104. — -Conovulus denticulatus, var. myos- 
otis. Forhes and Hanley, B.M. t. 125. f. 4, 5. 
Inhab. brackish marshes^ clefts of rocks near the 
high-water mark, and in the mud left bare by the 
tide at the mouths of rivers. 
Animal purplish. 
The habits of the animal are very like those of 
LymncEus fossarius and palustris^ which are some- 
times found occupying the same situations a little 
distance up the river that these animals do at its 
mouth. 
This shell was first recorded as British by Boys, 
who found it in the marshes near Faversham, at the 
roots of rushes. 
This species varies considerably — 1. In size; 
2. In colour, from purplish brown to brownish, while 
some are also very rarely found nearly hyaline ; 
3. In the length of the spire and in the ventricose- 
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