186 HELICID.-E. 



striae : epidermis rather thin : whorls 5 J, convex, the last 

 occupying about three-fifths of the shell : spire short and end- 

 ing in a blunt point : suture slight : mouth obliquely and 

 deeply crescent-shaped : outer lip thick, reflected and streng- 

 thened by a strong internal rib, much inflected above, slightly 

 angular beneath, where it makes an abrupt bend towards the 

 columella; colour of the lip, rib, and columella reddish- 

 brown : inner lip consisting of a slight reddish-brown layer : 

 umbilicus open and narrow in the young, but afterwards 

 covered and quite closed. L. 0*65. B. 0-9. 



Yar. 1. hortensis. Shell smaller and more globular : mouth 

 white-lipped, and rib of the same colour : inner lip exces- 

 sively thin and coloured or banded like the rest of the shell. 

 H. hortensis, Mull. Yerm. Hist. pt. ii. p. 52. 



Yar. 2. hybrida. Shell of the same size as the first variety, 

 but not quite so globular : mouth and rib of a pink or liver- 

 colour. H. hybrida, Poiret, Coq. Aisne, p. 71. 



Yar. 3. major, Ferussac. Shell much larger and rather 

 more depressed than usual. 



Yar. 4. minor. Shell dwarfed, of the same shape and 

 colour as the first variety. 



HABITAT : Woods, hedges, gardens, and similar situ- 

 ations everywhere ; and it is one of our upper tertiary 

 fossils. Var. 1. Nearly equally diffused and common. 

 Var. 2. More local, but not rare. Yar. 3. Sand-hills and 

 downs ; remarkably large on the rocky Isle of Arran, 

 Co. Galway (Barlee). Yar. 4. Zetland (Barlee) ; Loch 

 Carron, Ross-shire (J. G. J.). This last is analogous to 

 the dwarf variety alpestris of H. arbustorum. A re- 

 versed, as well as a scalariform, monstrosity sometimes 

 occurs ; but they are very rare. This abundant, but 

 pretty, shell ranges from Norway to Sicily; and the 

 variety hortensis is described by Gould as North Ameri- 

 can, although he was strongly of opinion that it had been 

 imported and become to a certain extent acclimatized. 



This kind of snail is said to be eaten in France ; but I 

 believe such an experiment has not been tried in this 



