PLATE LXXXIV. 



Cochlea pomatia edulis Gesneri. List. Exercit. Anat. 1. p. 162. 



tab. 1. 

 Cochlea alba major cum suo operculo. Merret Pin. p. 207. 



Morton Northampt. p. 415. 



Rutty Dublin, p. 379. 

 Helix Pomatia, Exotic. Penn. Br. Zool. No. 128. tab. S4;fig. 128. 

 Pomatia. Argenville Conch. I. tab. 32. fig. I. p. 383. II. p. 338. 



toft. 28. Jig. l.p.81. tab. 9. fig. 4. 

 Helix testa imperforata globosa rufescente, fasciis obsoletis. Mill. 



Zool. dan. prodr. 2901. Hist. verm. 2. p. 43. n. 



243. 

 Cochlea testa ovata quinque spirarum, pomatia dicta. Linn. Fn. 



Suec. I. p. 369. No. 1293. II. No. 2183. 



Martin berl. Mag. 2. p. 530. tab. I. fig. I. et. 3. 



tab. 2. fig. 13. x 



Schroet. Erdconch. p. 145. ». 14. 15. ta&. 1. j/fcf. 



10. 



Knorr Vergn. 1. ta£. 21. fig. 32. 



Pennant has named this species of Helix with some propriety the 

 Exotic Snail, for, though it is found at this time in vast abundance in 

 several parts of the country, it is not an indigenous kind. By whom 

 it was first introduced is uncertain; Pennant mentions Sir Kenelm 

 Digby, and Da Costa speaks of Charles Howard, Esq. of the Arundel 

 family. Its history, as related by Da Costa, is so very interesting, 

 that we shall give it in the words of its author: — 



" It is the largest species of land snail in England, and is found in 

 hedges and woods. It closes its shell carefully against winter, with a 



