The Conchologist's First Book / A System of Testaceous Malacology, Arranged Expressly for the Use of Schools, in Which the Animals, According to Cuvier, Are Given With the Shells, a Great Number of New Species Added, and the Whole Brought Up, as Accurately as Possible, to the Present Condition of the Science.

by Edgar Allan Poe; Thomas Brown

• Limax rufus.
• L. cinerus.
• L. albus.
• L. agrestis.
• L. punctata.

2. Genus Vitrina. Pl. [X].

Animal. Body creeping, elongated, snail shaped, nearly straight; posteriorly separated from the foot, and spirally wound into a shell.

Shell. Small, very thin, depressed, terminated above by a very short spire, the last whorl very large; aperture large, rounded oval; the left margin arched, slightly involute. Inhabits dry places of Europe. Three species.

• Vitrina parilis.
• V. dentilis.
• V. pellucida.

3. Genus Testacella. Pl. [X].

Animal. Body creeping, elongated, snail shaped, having a shell placed on the posterior extremity; four tentacula, the two longest with their eyes at their tips; respiratory organs behind.

Shell. Very small, external, ear-shaped, apex absolutely spiral, aperture very large and oval, left edge sharp and rolled inward behind. Inhabits the middle provinces of France. Two species.

• Testacella Haliotidea.
• T. Neritoidea.

4. Genus Parmacella. Pl. [X].