This  is  the  H.  umbilicata  of  Montagu ;  but  as  his
excellent  work  was  published  two  years  after  Drapar-
naud's  '  Tableau  des  Mollusques  terrestres  et  fluviatiles
de  la  France,'  my  patriotic  inclinations,  however  strong,
will  not  justify  me  in  preferring  the  name  given  by  my
countryman  to  the  more  ancient  one  of  the  French  con-
chologist.  The  above-mentioned  work  of  Drapamaud
does  not  appear  to  have  been  known  to  Br.  Gray  when
he  published  an  improved  edition  of  Dr.  Turton's  '  Ma-
nual of  British  Land  and  Freshwater  Shells.'  The  work
in  question  was  published  in  1801,  Montagu's  '  Testacea
Britannica'  in  1803,  and  Drapamaud's  '  Histoire  natu-


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relle  des  MoUiuqaes  terrestres  et  fluviatiles  de  la  France'
was  edited  hj  hia  widow  and  appeared  in  1805.  Stnder
first  gtk^e  this  species  the  name  of  "  rupeiiris'*  in  Coxe's
'Trayds  thioogh  Switzerland'  (1789),  but  did  not  de-
scribe  it.
21.  H.  PYGMis'A*,  Drapamaud.
B,  fygmtea,  Dnp.  TabL  p.  03»  and  Hist  p.lHpLvi]ii:8-10;F.&H.
iT.  p.  83,  pi.  cm.  f.  9, 10.
Body  greyish-brown  or  slate-colour,  minutely  speckled  with
black ;  tubercles  round  and  much  depressed :  manUe  brown,
with  a  slight  tinge  of  red:  ientades  rather  close  together,
nearly  cylindrical,  abruptly  thidcened  at  their  base;  bulbs
indistinct :  foot  narrow  and  ending  in  a  thick  and  keeled  tail.
