HELICID^E. J35 



c. POMATIA Gesner. 



Shell subylobose, solid, banded; peristome rather thickened, 

 reflexed ; axis perforated; epiphragm calcareous, 

 with several membranaceous ones within it. 



23. 5. HELIX Pomatia. Edible Snail, (t.4. f.24.) 

 Shell nearly globular, solid, striate, pale rufous, 

 with obscure darker bands; aperture roundish 

 lunate ; peristome thickened, slightly reflexed. 



Helix Pomatia. Linn. S. N. i. ; Montagu, p. 405.; 

 Drap. p. 87. t. 5. fig. 2022.; Brard, p. 19. 

 tab. 1. fig. 5. 



Cochlea Pomatia. Da Costa, p. 67. t. 4. f. 14. 



edulis. Humph. M. C. 



Pomatia antiquorum. Leach, Mollusc, p. 89. 



Inhab. woods and hedges, on chalky soil, and oolite 

 formations, in the southern and midland counties of 

 England. 



Animal warty, pale greyish brown, beneath grey ; 

 tentacles long, paler; footdilated, netted with impressed 

 lines, beneath ashy. (Sturm, F. t. 21.) 



Shell two inches long and as much high, rather 

 solid, with the body volution extremely large and in- 

 flated, the others very little rounded, strongly striate 

 across, and minutely so in a spiral direction ; colour 

 whitish, with the bands hardly visible, or pale tawny, 

 with usually four darker bands, two of them pene- 

 trating the aperture at the pillar ; aperture somewhat 

 orbicular, longer than broad, with the margin thick, 

 and reflected at the pillar so as in general to cover 

 the umbilicus or nearly so ; the inside of a pale violet 

 brown. 



