Lauria cylindracea, the common chrysalis snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Lauriidae.

The 3-4 x 1.8 mm shell is oval with a blunt apex and 5-6 weakly convex whorls.

The margin is white, sharp and reflected in fully grown specimens, usually with a whitish parietal callus.

The animal crawls with the shell in a high and almost straight position.

This species is known to occur in a number of countries and islands: It has been introduced to: