46 HELICIDiE. 



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 bauds. 



Plate CXVI. fig. 2. 



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

 Hclit pomatia, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, p. 1244. — Pennant, Brit. Zool. ed. 4, 



vol. iv. p. 134, pi. 84, f. 128 Pulteney, liutchins. 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. 329, 506. — Fleming, Brit. Anini. 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, 

 lllust. Conch. G. B. p. 43, pi. 16, f. 6, 12, 14.— Chemn. 

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

 tion 6, pt. 1, pi. 13, 14.— Drapar. Moll. Terr, et Fluv. p. 87, 

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



