Original Combination:

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Original Description:

Shell oval, very fragile; whorls three, not remarkably oblique, pale yellowish, with opaque white, and vitreous lines, irregularly alternating.
Length not quite three- fifths — breadth seven-twentieths, of an inch.
This shell is extremely common in many parts of the Southern states; it abounds in the sea- islands of Georgia, in the law marshy grounds behind the sand-hills of the coast, where they are destroyed in great numbers by the annual conflagration of the old grass; on Amelia Island, East Florida, I found them in plenty on the highest sandy-ground of the island. On Cumberland Island, in Mr. James Shaw's garden, I obtained several specimens from the leaves of radishes.
The resemblance between this species and the ovalis is very great; it differs, however, in being less elongated, and of a more robust form; the revolution of the spire is much less oblique, the shell itself is thicker and less fragile.
Animal whitish; eyes, inferior tentacula, and a line passing from the eyes, disappearing under the shell, black; a gamboge coloured vitta is visible through that part of the shell which is opposed to the mouth.