A Monograph of the Terrestrial Mollusca Inhabiting the United States. With Illustrations of All the Species
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Oregon. 3. Polymita areolata, Sowerby. Plate 6, figure 5. Globose-conic, thin, striate ; spire depressed-conoidal; whorls 5, a little convex, the last slightly descending towards the aperture, large, inflated ; aperture rounded lunate, lip thicken- ed within, columellar margin sometimes somewhat dentate, nearly covering the narrow umbilicus; base convex. Cream- color, ornamented with revolving series of interrupted brown lines, light brownish or reddish within. Diam. 26, height 18 mill. Oregon,... California. 69 ] 4. Polymita redemita, Wm. G. Binney. Plate 6, figure 7. Globose-conic, rather thin, wrinkled, closely and minutely granulate ; spire elevated, oljtuse, suture impressed ; whorls 6, convex, last quite large and rounded, depressed towards the aperture; aperture rather large, very oblique, lip reddish ash-color, thickened, ends approaching, entirely covering the umbilicus. Brown, banded with chestnut above the middle. Diam. 21, height 12 mill. California. Dr. Newcomb considers this a variety of Nickliniana, but it appears to me that it is distinguished by its closed umbilicus, as well as by texture and color.
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