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where it often does much damage. It has a handsome shell, subject 
to much variety in regard to colour, and is very hardy. It is one of 
the first to make its appearance in the spring, and often does much 
damage to young turnips and lettuce as well as clover. In the 
typical nemoralis the lip is black. The colour of the shell is 
extremely variable, being white, grey, pale yellow, pink, or brown, 
with 1 to 5 spiral brown bands, occasionally confluent or interrupted ; 
whorls 5£, convex, last § of shell. The body of the mollusc is dark 
brown, tinged with yellow, and covered with small tubercles ; 
mantle greenish, with yellow specks ; tentacles long and slender. 
A well-marked variety, at one time regarded as specifically 
distinct, is H. hortensis, which has the mouth white-lipped and the 
rib of the same colour. A variety known as hybrida has the mouth 
and rib of a pink colour. The arrangement of the bands and markings 
of the shell are extremely variable, as is also the colour of the animal 
itself. I have seen clover and lucerne literally stripped by this snail 
in Wiltshire and in Wales. 
The Strawberry Snail (H. rufescens, Pennant) is a constant source 
of annoyance to strawberry growers, preferring those plants, violets 
and iris to all others. I have seen beds of strawberries in 
Surrey and Cambridgeshire quite spoilt by this snail. The fruit 
is attacked as well as the young leaves. These snails are seldom 
seen in the day-time, unless after a shower of rain, when they at once 
become active. They may often be seen in summer under the straw 
which is sometimes placed between the plants. They deposit their 
eggs from September to November, each snail depositing about sixty 
eggs. In my breeding-case the eggs were on the ground in heaps, 
but I think naturally they place them below the surface of the 
ground. The ova hatch in about three weeks, but a few remain 
undeveloped until the spring. The small snails do not grow very 
rapidly, as is the case with Helix aspersa. The shell is compressed 
above, and angularly rounded below, opaque pale dirty grey, often 
with a reddish-brown hue, sometimes transversely streaked with 
brown and marked with a white spiral band which passes round the 
last whorl ; whorls 6 — 7 ; last whorl = ^-shell ; mouth obliquely 
semilunar, furnished inside with a broad white rib. The body of the 
snail is yellowish-brown with dark brown stripes running along the 
neck and on the tentacles ; foot pale, narrow and slender. 
H. mrgatci , Da Costa, often does much harm to root crops and on 
grass lands. During the year 1894 it appeared in large numbers in 
parts of Kent, where it is well known on account of its destructive 
habits. At Wye, on the farm belonging to the South Eastern 
