142 PAPEES, ETC. 



H. ncmoralis, Linnreus. Common, but not so variecl in 

 painting as it is found in many otlier parts of England. 

 We have met with a veiy rare variety at Wells, wliich is 

 orange with five palcr yellow banda, and has tlie lip and 

 throat peach-coloured. 



IL hortensis, Müller. This species is tindoubtedly dis- 

 tinct from tlic last, whicli although occasionally found with 

 the lip peach-coloured, or even white (Scarborough), can 

 never be confounded with the smaller and more delicate 

 shell of Helix hortensis, wliich nioreover Jievci' has the 

 calcareous (and usually coloured) deposit of the columella, 

 which is so marked a character in H. nemoralis. H. 

 hortensis is abundant in Somersetshire. 

 Var. hrjbrida, Poviet, Abundant and variously coloured, 

 at Wells. The typical bandless form at Wrington, on 

 Clevedon Hill, at Kenn, and on hedgebanks at Tickenham. 



H. virgata, Da Costa. Very abundant, especially on 

 dry hills and the sea-coast. It is very varied in colouring 

 on the sand hills. Near Burnham one variety is found 

 whoUy deep chocolate brown ; another brown with a 

 narrow white band running round the base of the whorls, 

 and more or less lincated round the umbilicus; a third 

 resembles the last, but has in addition to the basal white 

 fillet, a row of white spots round the upper margin of the 

 whorls ; a fourth is white, with one, two, or three inter- 

 rupted Spiral bands. Intermediate specimens, as well as 

 the more common varieties, are also to be found. On the 

 sand-hills at Berrow these varieties are replaced by a fifth 

 which is milk white, with the exception of the mouth and 

 apex, which are rufous. In Tickenham churchyard the 

 milk- white variety with transparent bands is to be 

 found. We have taken a reversed specimen on the sea 

 wall near Clevedon. Mr. Miller curiously remarks, " The 



