Vitrina, a genus of land molluscs forming a connecting link between the slugs and true snails. But one species is known in Britain, V. pellucida, the glass-snail. It is exceedingly hardy, and has often been observed crawling upon the snow.
Vitrina
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 498
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