158 SUPPLEMENT. 



P. 172. — Helix. Frequent mention of the snail will be 

 found in the writings of the ancients. At one of the suppers 

 recorded by Athenaeus the following riddle was proposed, and 

 may be answered by any " Schneckenfreund " : — 



'YXoyevrjs, dvdsav9os, dvaifiaros, vypoiceXevQos. 



The snail is one of the creeping things that was in Leviticus 

 reckoned unclean, and forbidden as an article of food. We 

 keep this law better than our continental friends. 



P. 174. — H. ruderata. Kamptschatka, N. Japan, S. Russia, 

 and Austria. 



P. 174. — H. inc areata. Belgium, Spain, Italy, and Dal- 

 matia. 



P. 174. — H. frtjticum. F. Barnwell, Cambridgeshire (A. 

 Bell). E. Spain (Graells). 



P. 175. — Helix lamellata. Dingwall (Buchanan White); 



Bonnington, Lanark (J. G. J.). 



Body light grey, darker on the head : tentacles, upper pair 

 club-shaped. Very shy. 



P. 176. — H. aculeata. Moray Firth district (Martin). 

 E. Lapland (Ny lander). 



P. 177. — H. pomatia. E. Dalmatia (Brusina); Sicily (Cal- 

 cara). 



P.181. — H.aspersa. E, Malta(Issel); Smyrna (M' Andrew). 

 Acclimatized at Santiago and in Chili. Var. tenuis. Agenais 

 (Gassies); Corsica (Susini). 



P. 184, 1. 13 from bottom. The shells were not given by 

 Pennant in his 'British Zoology' until the 4th edition, in 

 1777. 



P. 185. — H. nemoralis and var. hortensis. I have found 

 the two forms living together, but passing one into another. 

 E. Canada (Bell). 



P. 192.— H. Cartusiana. F. Butley, Suffolk (A. BeU). 

 E. Asia Minor (Gerstfeldt). 



P. 195. — H. rufescens. E. Siberia (Krynicki and others) ; 

 Burgundy (Barbie, as H. glabella) ; Switzerland (Am Stein, 

 as same) ; N. Germany (v. Alten, as H. sylvestris) ; Austria 

 (v. Schrockinger) ; Sicily (Calcara, as H. glabella). 



