The genus Helix is more diftinguifhed by the 
number than the beauty of its fpecies ; which being 
moftly either land or freih-water inhabitants, have 
not that thick and gloify appearance which, in ge¬ 
neral, diftinguifhes thofe fhells which are natives of 
the fea. It is however marked in many fpecies by a 
high degree of Angularity in point of form; and ex¬ 
hibits ftriking examples of that ftrange variety of 
fhape into which Nature has arranged her produc¬ 
tions. Amongft the more remarkable fpecies may be 
numbered the Helix ringens, reprefented by- the 
fmaller figures, and the Helix Carocolla, reprefented 
by the larger figures on the prefent plate. Both 
thefe fhells are natives of India. 
