46 I1ELICID.E. 



higher than, broad, about half as wide as the total 

 diameter ; peristome white, thin, expanded, slightly re- 

 flected, much dilated upon the pillar, which is oblique 

 and only slightly arcuated. Diameter nearly an inch 

 and a half. Scalariform and sinistral varieties are some- 

 times met with. 



The animal is roughly granulated, of a general greenish 

 grey, mottled with minute white or yellow opaque specks, 

 darker about the head and neck, and there striped with 

 a pale band. 



This handsome but commonest of snails is found uni- 

 versally throughout the British Islands, and owing to its 

 being an article of food in some countries, or else a 

 supposed remedy for pulmonary affections, has been trans- 

 ported and distributed by the agency of man to all parts 

 of the world. It is especially abundant in the neigh- 

 bourhood of gardens. 



H. pomatia, Linnseus. 



Solid, globose, coarsely wrinkled lengthways, most minutely 

 striated in a spiral direction, pale tawny, with rufous bands. 



Plate CXVI. fig. 2. 



Lister, Hist. Conch, pi. 48, f. 46. 

 omatia, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, p. 1244. — Pennant, Brit. Zoo], ed. 4, 

 vol. iv. p. 134, pi. 04, f. P28. — Pulteney, Hutchins, Hist. 

 Dorset, p. 47. — Donov. Brit. Shells, vol. iii. pi. 84. — Mont. 

 Test. Brit. p. 405. — Maton and Rack. Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 vol. viii. p. 201. — Dorset Catalog, p. 54, pi. 20, f. 14.— 

 Turton, Conch. Diction, p. 54. — Jeffreys, Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. vol. xvi. p. 32!), 506.— Fleming, Brit. Anim. p. 259. — 

 Turton, Manual L. and F. W. Shells, p. 44, f. 34.— Gray, 

 Manual L. and F. W. Shells, p. 135, pi. 4, f. 34.— Brown, 

 Illust. Conch. O. B. p. 43, pi. 16, f. 6, 12, 14. — Cheiun. 

 Conch. Cab. vol. ix. f. 1138 a. — Sturm. Deutsch. Fauna, sec- 

 tion li, pt. 1, pi. 13, 14.— Drapar. Moll. Terr, et Fluv. p. 87, 

 pi. 5, f. 20. — Ferus. Prodrom. Moll. No. 31; Hist. Nat. 



