AMPHIPEPLEA. 
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thin and inflated, amber-coloured ; spire with 
three scarcely produced volutions, (t. 9. f. 103.) 
Buccinum glutinosum. Muller ^ Verm. ii. 129.— Helix glutinosa. 
Gmelin, S. N. 3659.; Mont p. 379. t. 16. f. 5. — Bulimus 
glutinosus. Brug. E. M. '^OQ . — Limneus glntinosus. Drap. 
p. 50. ; Turton., Man. ed. 1. 120. f. 103. ; Jeffreys.,^ Linn. 
Trans, xvi.; Michaud., t. 16. f. 13, 14.— Limngeus glutinosus. 
Forhes and Hanley.,^ B. M. iv. 182. t. 124. f. 6, 7. — Limnea 
glutinosa. Gray., in Sowerhy., Gen. f. 5. ; Flem. B. A. 275. 
— Myxas Mulleri. Leach., Syn. Moll. 108. — Amphipeplea 
glutinosa. Nilson, Moll. Suec. 58. ; Rossm. Icon. i. 93. t. 2. 
f. 48. 
In stagnant ditches, England, North Wales, Ire- 
land. Locally and periodically abundant ; living on 
the roots of duck-meat. 
Montagu described the animal as large in pro- 
portion to its shell, like many of the Bullce ; and he 
thinks it might be placed in that genus. It is 
covered with a tenacious slime, and is of a pale 
dull yellow colour, sprinkled with bright brimstone 
spots ; the tentacles are very broad at the base, and 
flat ; eyes small, placed at the base of the tentacula 
on the inside ; front broad ; the foot spread and mo- 
derately long: when the membrane that usually 
covers the shell is withdrawn, the colour of the 
animal beneath the transparent shell gives it an ap- 
pearance of highly polished tortoise-shell. In the 
young shell the mantle is more developed, and al- 
most entirely covers the shell. 
Shell about half an inch in diameter, extremely 
thin and transparent, of an amber or yellowish horn- 
colour, somewhat orbicular, with the outer lip much 
expanded ; spire consisting of three and a half volu- 
tions ; the smaller one lying nearly flat on the larger 
