"Under stones, among dead and decaying leaves and at the roots of grass in woods and moist places.

"[4] This species occurs in countries and islands including: The shell is oval or subfusiform, rather thin, and semitransparent, glossy, pale yellowish-horn-color, very strongly and obliquely striate and almost ribbed in the line of growth, but less so on the body whorl, which is faintly striate spirally, periphery is rounded.

The penultimate whorl is slightly exceeding in breadth the last, which occupies about one-half of the shell.

[4] Aperture is semioval, contracted or sinuous in the middle of the outer edge; teeth from four to six, viz.

Umbilicus is small and narrow, contracted by a keel or ridge at the base of the shell.