242 POPULAR BPaTISH CONCHOLOGY. 



H. aspersa, with a large open aperture, and small spire ; 

 it is wrinkled lengthwise; the animal is large and 

 dusky. 



H. arhustorum has the shell rather flattened, brown and mar- 

 bled, with light oblique lines across the marbling ; the 

 lip is white and turned back. This species lives chiefly 

 in woods, and in other damp and shady places. 



H. Cantiana has a still more depressed shell, which is pale 

 above, darker fawn below. It has a hollow, or umbi- 

 licus, behind the lip. When young it is hairy. 



H. CartJiusiana has the shell about half an inch wide, flat, 

 whitish, with a pure white rib round the mouth. 



H. nemoralis has the very pretty variously-banded shell so 

 common in hedges, among the stinging nettles. It is 

 thin and light, rather round, with the mouth oblique, 

 the outer lip reflected and callous; frequently dark- 

 brown, while the body of the shell is sometimes white 

 or yellow, with or without clear brown or white bands. 

 Some varieties are named H. hortensis, and a variety 

 between this and the typical nemoralis has been called 

 Jiyhfida ; the animal is of a greenish-yellow colour, 

 banded on the head with brown. 

 The following account of a pet snail is from the ^ Zoplo- 



