HYGROMIA HISPIDA. 23 
In Cambridge, Mrs. McKenny Hughes records it from the gravels of Barnwell, 
Barrington, and Grantchester near Cambridge; and Rev. E. 8S. Dewick found a 
fossil specimen of the sinistral form at Barnwell. 
In Bedford, it was found by Prof. Prestwich at Biddenham. 
In Huntingdon, a large, robust and compact form with a wide umbilicus was 
found abundantly in the alluvial deposit at Woodston by the Rev. C. E. Y. Kendall 
who regarded them as undoubtedly the ancestral type of the species. 
In Northampton, Kennard and Woodward report it from Apethorpe. 
In Pembroke, Dr. Falconer found it in Minchin Hole Cave. 
In Lincoln South, it is reported by Mr. H. E. Quilter as rare in a pre-glacial 
deposit at Casewick cutting. 
In Derby, Rev. E. H. Mullins has found it in Langwith Cave. 
In Lancashire, H. hispida and var. sericea Drap. have been found in the ‘‘ cave 
earth,’ Dog Holes, Warton, near Carnforth, by Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson. 
In Yorkshire, Mr. T. Sheppard records it from Bielbecks, near Hornsea. 
In Germany, it is recorded by Prof. Ihering from the tufa of Streitberg and Ober 
Zaunsbach, Franconia; and by Herr P. Hesse from calcareous tufa and peat at 
Pyrmont. 
Herr Clessin also reports from Bavaria H. hispida from loess of the Danubian 
valley ; H. hispida and var. minor at Piirklgut ; and H. hispida, H. concinna, and 
var. conica Jeftr. from the tufa of Regensburg. 
In the Lower Pleistocene, Prof. Sandberger records it from Mosbach, Baden ; 
also from Burgtonna, Grafentonna, Muhlhausen, and Weimar, Thuringia. 
From Lower and Middle Pleistocene, Prof. Sandberger cites it from Achern, 
Bretten, Bruchsal, Durlach, Heidelberg, Mauer, Oos, Oberweiler, Steinbach, and 
Sulzburg, Baden ; from Cannstadt and Neckarelz in the Neckar Valley ; from 
Bad Ems, Garbenheim, Limburg, Oppenheim, Weilburg and Wiesbaden in Hesse- 
Nassau; from Frankenhausen and Sondershausen, Thuringia; from Dresden, 
Meissen, and Priesa in Saxony ; from Passau, Bavaria, as well as from Nidda and 
Geisnidda in the Niddathal. 
In the Upper Pleistocene tufa-beds, Prof. Sandberger reports it from Burgtonna, 
Grafentonna, Muhlhausen, and Weimar, Thuringia. 
The Helix terrena of Clessin, which is so very common in the loess of South 
Germany, is only a slight modification from the type. 
In France, according to Dr. Germain, it is one of the most characteristic species 
of the loess of the Rhéne valley and elsewhere, and he cites it from the post- 
tertiary deposits of Pas-de-Calais; of Menchecourt, Somme; of Presle, Ain; of 
Dauphiné; of Toulouse, Haute Garonne; the tufa of Celle, Seine-et-Marne ; and 
St. Pierre-lés-El]bzuf, Seine Inférieure. 
M. Laville records it from the Pleistocene gravels of Champigny, Perreux, and 
Joinville-le-Pont, Seine. 
It is also known from the loess of the department of the Rhéne at St. Fons, 
St. Rambert l’Ile Barbe, Chartreux, Collonges, and St. Martin de Fontaines. In 
Isere in the loess of Begude, Feyzin; in the Ain, near Tramoyes; and in the 
lacustrine marls of Gerland near Lyons. 
Mr. F. W. Harmer records it from the Limons grés a Succinées of Normandy. 
The Helix elisula and H. praviata Locard are from the quaternary beds of Buisse, 
Isére, and according to Dr. P. Fischer Helix locardiana and neyronensis of Fagot, 
H., stenoligma, of Bourgt., and H. elaverana of Mabille, from the quaternary beds 
of Lyons, are all dismemberments from and referable to H. hispida. 
In Austro-Hungary, it is recorded by Prof. Sandberger from Nussdorf near 
Vienna in valley loess of Lower and Middle Pleistocene age; and by Beyrich from 
that of Mogyoros near Gran, Hungary. 
In Switzerland, Prof. Sandberger quotes it from Aargau in beds of Lower and 
Middle Pleistocene age ; and Dr. Brockmann-Jerosch gives H. sericea Drap. as very 
common in the loess of the Rhine valley, St. Gall. 
In India, it has been found in an interglacial deposit near the river Indus, at 
Kuardo, in Skardo, Cashmere, by Lieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen. 
HOLOCENE.—In Somersetshire, Kennard and Woodward report it from an 
alluvial deposit at Castle Cary. 
In Wiltshire, Rev. R. A. Bullen has found it at West Harnham near Salisbury. 
In Dorset, Mr. Harold St. George Gray found the sub-var. nana commonly 
under the floor of the Roman arena and in other places during the excavations at 
Maumbury Rings. Dr. Blackmore has found it at Dewlish ; and the Rev. R. A. 
Bullen at Durdle Barn Door. 
