PLATE LXXXIV. 



HELIX POMATIA. 



ITALIAN OR EXOTIC SNAIL. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Aperture of the mouth contracted and lunulated. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS, 



Shell globose, with five spires, and umbilicated ; whitish fasciatcd 

 with brown. Mouth rather roundish. 



Helix Pomatia: testa umbilicata subovata obtusa decolore, aper- 

 tuia subrotundo-lunata. Gvicl. Linn. Syst. Nat. 

 p. 3627. sp. 47. Fn. Suec. 1283. 



Cochlea magna cinereo rufescens, fasciata, leviter umbilicata. Po- 

 matia. Da Costa. Br. Conch, p. 67. sp. 38. tab. 

 ±.fig. 14. 14. 



Cochlea cinerea, maxima, edulis, cujus os operculo crasso velut 

 Gypseo per hyemem clauditur. Pomatia. Gesn. 

 de Aquat. pp. 644. 255. 



Cochlea cinereo rufescens, fasciata, leviter umbilicata. Pomatia 

 Gesneri. List* II. Conch, tab. 48. //g-. 46. 

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