PLATE XII 
Prof. Gmelin, in the last edition of the Systema Nature, enumerates 
no less than thirty-one varieties of this beautiful land Shell. Da Costa - 
describes six principal varieties in his British Conchology *. Some of 
the kinds are rare, others extremely common, living in trees, hedges 
and gardens. It is a widely diffused species being found in every part 
of Europe as well as Great Britain. 
* 1. Uniform, of a pale citron colour, or yellow of different shades: the mouth finely 
bordered within and without, with a dark brown, and with a brownish shade or cloud 
on so much of the body wreath as lies within the mouth, or from the outer lip quite 
across to the edge of the pillar. Pretty freguent. 
2. Uniform, of a flesh colour of different shades, with the mouth in like manner bordered 
with dark brown ; and the body wreath also shaded exactly the same as the last. .Not 
very frequent. 
3+ Uniform, of different degrees of brown, with the same circumstances. Common. 
4. The ground yellow or greenish yellow of different shades, with a regular single fpiral 
girdle, or according to the turn of the wreaths, in the very middle of each wreath, with 
the brown border round the mouth, and the shade or cloud on the body. Pretty frequent. 
5. The ground fizfb colour of different shades, variegated in like manner with a single 
girdle, the dorder round the mouth, and on the body. Not very frequent. 
6. Many dark-brown spiral girdles on the yellow, flefh, or brownish grounds, sometimes to 
five girdles at least on the body wreath ; sometimes only four. Thefe girdles are of 
different breadths, some being very narrow, like streaks, others broader, like belts; 
and others so extremely broad as to cover the parts, and make the ground colour only appear 
in girdles. They are also not equidistant or regularly set ; but rhe very broad girdles lie most 
generally on the upper part of the shells. These girdled sorts are the most frequent or 
commons Da Costa Er. Conch, p. 78. 
