18 MOLLUSCA OF SOMERSET. 
HELICELLA CAPERATA, Montagu (= Helix caperata, Montagu ; 
= Helix intersecta, Poirct). 
Generally distributed in open dry situations on caleareous 
soils, often present in enormous numbers. It occurs in a 
holocene deposit on Brean Down, Weston-super-Mare. 
Var. subscalaris, Jeffreys. Two examples from the rail- 
way cutting near the Vicarage, Shepton Montague ! 
Monkton Combe; Kenneth McKean. 
Var. ornata, Picard. The very distinct markings of this 
variety are, according to the Rev. S. Spencer Pearce, 
probably of a warning or aposematic character, enabling 
the shells to be easily seen and consequently avoided 
by sheep. It is said that this form is more abundant 
than the indistinctly marked type on downs and _ pas- 
tures where sheep are fed, but I have not observed such 
to be the case. 
Crawlands and Grovelands, Bratton St. Maur! 
About Creech Hill and Milton Clevedon ! 
Monkton Combe; Kenneth Mc Kean. 
Dunes about Weston-super-Mare! 
Var. fulva, Moquin- Tandon. 
Bratton St. Maur and Wincanton district generally ! 
Creech Hill, Bruton and Castle Cary ! 
Dulverton; H. Watson. 
Monkton Combe; Kenneth McKean. 
Var. lutescens, Pascal. 
From a quarry on the summit of Castle Cary Hill. The 
colour is admirably protective, exactly resembling that 
of the stones amongst which it lives. 
Monkton Combe; Kenneth McKean. 
Var. obliterata, Picard. 
Wincanton, Castle Cary and Bruton ! 
Uncommon. Through an oversight given as “common” 
in my paper in the Journal of Conchology, 1899. 
Var. alba, Picard. 
Crawlands, Bratton St. Maur! Haslemere Mus. Coll. 
Monkton Combe; Aenneth Mc Kean. 
HELICELLA BARBARA, Linné (= Helix acuta, Muller ; = Buli- 
mus acutus, Muller). 
This interesting species is, I think, strictly xerophile and 
exclusively confined to the sandhills bordering the coast. It 
is, however, recorded in Leipner’s List of the L. and F. W. 
