ae 
Doe HELIX POMATIA. 
e CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
Germany—Biichner cites the var. inflata and sub-var. spheralis for Wurtemburg. 
Switzerland—The type specimens of the var. dnflata were found at the foot of 
the Lukmanier Pass, Canton Grisons, by Herr Scheuchzer, and the sub-var. spheralis 
in the Rheinwald above Nufenen (Hartmann, op. cit.). 
Austro-Hungary —Var. soliftaria, according to Hazay, lives in gardens on the 
plains near Buda-Pesth. 
Balkan Peninsula—H. sch/dflii is recorded by Prof. Mousson from Servia and 
from Epirus; and by Boettger from the Island of Corfu; while as Helix eusarcosoma 
it is recorded by Dr. Servain as rare around Serajevo, Bosnia. : 
VARIATIONS IN SIZE OF SHELL. 
Var. gigantea Porro, Mal. Comasca, 1838, p. 44. 
Helix pomatia var. magna Stabile, Conch. Lugan., 1845, p. 22. 
Helix pomatia var. grandis Moquin-Tandon, Hist. Moll. France, 185d, ii., p. 179. 
Helix pomatia var. compacta Hazay, Mal. Bl.. 1881, p 40, pl. 2, f. 2. 
Helix pomatia var. major Baudon, Journ. de Conch., 1884, p. 242. 
SHELL much larger than the type form. 
The var. gigantea Porro, s.s., is 
described as 50 mill. in diameter and 70 
mill. in altitude. | 
The sub-var. grandis, according to 
Herr Biichner, attains a diameter of 
60-68 mill. 
The sub-var.. magna is described as 
having an altitude of 50 mill. and a 
diameter of 40 ill. 
The sub-var. major is not less than 
50 mill. in height and diameter. 
The sub-var. compacta is described 
as globose and thick-shelled, with an 
elevated spire, and more open umbilicus ; 
whorls 53, yellowish or whitish-brown, 
with four broad dark brown spiral bands. 
Aperture somewhat oblique, and higher 
than broad, lip thickened and expanded, 
of a flesh colour, the throat reddish violet ; 
diam. and alt. 55 mill. ; aperture 37 mill. 
high, and 30 mill. broad. 
Fic. 301.—Helix pomatia sub-var. compacta 
(after Hazay, but reduced to natural size). 
Dr. Hazay remarks that in the sub-var. compacta the follicles of the digitate 
elands are twenty-two millimetres long and about sixty in number, while those of 
the type are about eighty in number and only five or six millimetres long. These 
statements are, however, quite incorrect as far as British specimens are concerned. 
The figure does not convey an accurate impression of the shell, which Dr. Hazay 
describes as being fifty-five millimetres in diameter and height; whereas the figure 
represents a shell with an altitude notably in excess of the diameter. 
ENGLAND. 
Hants. N.—An enormous shell found at Axford, near Preston Candover, May 
1884, Rev. H. P. Fitzgerald. 
CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
Germany —Herr Biichner cites the sub-var. grandis from Wurtemburg. 
France—Sub-var. grandis, rather rave, found at La Jardinette, near Stenay, 
Meuse (Lepointe and Cardot, Moll. Montmedy, 1903, p. 7); and recorded for Alsace 
by Meyer. Sub-var. wajor is common in elevated and open sandy places in the 
Forest of Hez, Oise; and according to Wattebled is also common in the Jura at 
Mont Poupet, St. Thiebaud, and Chevigny. 
Italy—Var. gigantea, very common, Valgana, Valle Assine, Monte Resegone, 
province of Como (Porro, Mal.. Comasea, 1838, p. 44). 
Austro-Hungary—Sub-var. compacta is recorded from Hungary, on the hill- 
sides, coppices, and forests near Buda-Pesth, by Hazay; and from Tirchova by 
Prof. Cockerell; while Bielz records specimens nearly 70 mill. in height and 50 mill. 
in diameter from Transylvania. 
Switzerland—Hartmann records that Studer found a specimen in the Convent 
Garden of St. Urban, 67 mill. in diam. and 65 mill. in height. 
