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about an hour after a shower, the banks they 
frequent become quite covered over with them, 
- where in dry weather not one is to be found, as 
they retire into holes in the ground, and amongst 
grass, roots, and rubbish. The H. hortensis, garden 
snail (Figs. 28 and 29), is, like the preceding, very 
varied in its colours, though less in its size, which 
is three-fourths of an inch in diameter. The shrub 
snail (Figs. 380 and 31), which nearly resembles 
this, is pretty and interesting. The zoned snail 
H. virgata (Figs. 32 and 33), is more peculiar to 

32-33. H. virgata (the Zoned Snail), Da Costa. 34-35. H. 
caperata (the Black-tipped Snail), Montagu. 36-37. H. 
ericetorum (the Heath Snail), Miller. 38-39. H. hispida 
(the Bristly Snail), Linneus. 
chalk and lime districts; and the little black-tipped 
snail, H. caperata (Figs. 34 and 35), which might at 
first sight be mistaken for the zoned snail, is a 
