HELIX POMATIA. Dae 
CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
Germany —The sub-var. plagiostomea is cited for Wurtembure by Herr Biiehner. 
An elevated form recorded from Oettern in Weimar by O. Schmidt; and Prof. 
T. D. A. Cockerell found a similar form at Wangen, Baden, in July 1909! 
France—The sub-var. pyrgia is cited from the department of the Dréme at Die, 
by M. Arnould Locard ; by M. Gustav Sayn from Peyrus, St. Nazaire-le-Désert, 
Montvendre, and in company with his forms evassa and conica from Combovin ; by 
M. Margier from the Basses Alpes at Beauvezer in the Upper Verdon Valley, 
where it ascends to an altitude of 6,000 feet; by M. Beandouin as abundant at 
Chatillon-sur-Seine, Cote V@Or; and by Commandant Caziot from the Yonne. 
The sub-var. acuminata is recorded by Dr. Baudon as not rare in the Oise, at 
the chalk quarries of Janville and St. Laurent, and on the wooded caleareous slopes 
of Morainval, near Mouy ; and Wattebled says it is rare at Champvans in the Jura. 
As H. gesneri M. Sayn records it from Grands-Goulets, Montvendre, and Miscon 
near Lue-en-Diois in the Drome. 
M. Bouillet records a somewhat high-spired form in the mountains of Gergovia 
near Clermont, Puy-de-Dome ; and Bouchard-Chantereaux records a variety with a 
more slender and pointed spire in the Forest of Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, 
Italy —Sub-var. elongata is recorded from Udine in Tuscany by Signor Pirona. 
Austro-Hungary—Sub-var. pulskyane is recorded by Hazay as inhabiting the 
islands in the Danube, near Buda-Pesth, Hungary; the var. gesweri by Ulieny from 
Brunn in Moravia ; and a var. conica is cited by C. Sander from Prague, Bohemia. 
Switzerland—Vavr. gesneri, according to Herr Clessin, lives amongst the higher 
mountains, and a fine conspicuously elevated form is recorded from an altitude of 
4,000 feet at Jorogne in Canton Vaud by Charpentier. Hartmann also records it 
as common in Cantons Ticino, Grisons, and St. Gall. 
Var. inflata Hartmann, Erd. u. Sussw. Gast. Schweiz, 1841, p. 105. 
Helicogena inflata Hartmann, op. cit. 
Helicogena spheralis Hartmann, op. cit. 
Helix schlaflii Mousson, Coq. |’Orient, 1859, p. 40. 
Hlelix eusarcosoma Servain in Sched., 1881. 
Helix pomatia var. solitaria Hazay, Mal. Bl., 1881, vol. ili., p. 42, pl. 2, ff. 5a, B. 
SHELL more globose, spire more depressed and less prominent. 
The var. inflata Hartmann, s.s., is described as possessing a depressed spire and 
very swollen last whorl, giving the shell the aspect of H. aperta, the last whorl being 
4ths or even ?ths of the total height. 
The sub-var. spheeralis is described as extremely globose, small, pale, and 
bandless, and resembling H. lutescens. 
The sub-var. sehlaflii is described by Bourguignat as depressly swollen in shape 
with an almost concealed umbilicus. 
Fic. 300.—Helix pomatia sub-var. solitaria (after Hazay). 
The sub-var. solitaria is depressly and tumidly globose, with depressed spire, 
and four slender dark bands. Alt. 344 mill. ; diam. 38 mill. The H. eusarcosoma 
is a name applied by Dr. Servain to supersede that of solitaria. 
Dr, Hazay remarks that this variety differs from the type by its depressed form, 
rendering it broader than high ; and by its short flat spire and slender banding. 
The figures herewith reproduced from Hazay’s original drawings very unfaith- 
fully represent the relative proportions and shape of this form, as will be evident 
upon comparison of the dimensions and the figure. 
