HELIX. 145 
York Acad. i. p. 129"; Pilsbry, Proc. Acad. Phil. 1891, p. 8313; Schuberth, in Archiv f. 
Naturg. 1892, p. 48, t. 5. figg. 13, 14 (dart) ”. 
Pomatia aspersa (Miill.), Binney, Terr. air-breath. Moll. N. Am. v. p. 380, fig. 266 ; Manual of 
Am. Land-Shells, p. 470, fig. 514”, and Suppl. ii. (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoél. Harv. Coll. xiii.) 
p- 24". 
Hab. Centrau Mexico: Jaral, in the State of Guanajuato (Schumann); very abundant 
in the environs of the city of Mexico, especially in the park of Chapultepec, intro- 
duced (Heilprin 4); Mexico, without nearer indication of locality ({oge). 
This species, originally from Europe—where it extends from Moray Firth in Scotland 
to Constantinople,—Northern Africa, Asia Minor, and Syria, has been introduced and 
acclimatized in :— 
Norra America: Nova Scotia !! 1217 and Maine 1 1217 ; Charleston, in gardens }! 217 
(introduced about 1840), and New Orleans 1! 17, San José, in Santa Clara 
County, California 18 (introduced about 1860); Santa Barbara, Califor- 
nia 117. 
Soutu America: Cayenne (D. Howe, 18215); Rio Janeiro (Prince Newwied, 1815- 
1817 °); Santiago, Chili 1’. 
ANTILLES: Haiti 1’. 
Also recorded from New Spain (Humboldt, 1803-4 °). The Mexican specimens sent 
by Hage, one of which is figured (fig. 19), are of remarkably small size and compara- 
tively rather high—20-30 millim. in diameter, 25-27 millim. in height; those from 
Jaral are 28-29 millim. in diameter and 24-27 millim. in height. 
As regards the solidity of the shell and the coloration—yellowish, with marbled dark 
greenish-brown bands, one, two, or three above, and two or one broad one below— 
oN ON —~ 
(formula: (23 43, 143 45, (£2345, or 12346), 
there is no remarkable difference from the normal European specimens. 
Binney !? states that the shells of this species were brought from Spain to New 
Orleans as an article of food. 
Subgen. Lysrnoz, Adams. 
Aglaia, Albers, Die Helic. ed. 1, p. 107 (1850), ed. 2, p. 122 (1860). 
Lysinoé, H. & A. Adams, Gen. Moll. ii. p. 203 (1858). 
Odontura, Fischer & Crosse, Miss. Scient. Mex., Mollusca, i. pp. 211, 242 (1870). 
The name Aglaia, one of the Graces in Greek mythology, has been preoccupied 
thrice in Zoology (Mollusca, Siphonophora, Aves), and also thrice (including the 
identical Aglea) in Botany (Dilleniaceee, Meliaces, and Iridee). The zoological 
applications, however, are now generally abandoned: Aglaia, Renier, 1804 (Mollusca), 
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