32 HYGROMIA HISPIDA. 
BRITISH ISLES. 
It has long been known that the shell bearing this name abroad is a widely 
distributed inhabitant of the British Isles, and has also from time to time been 
published by suecessive English conchologists as a new discovery and as a member 
of or an addition to our fauna, but no convincing evidence has as yet been adduced 
by any of its sponsors to substantiate the distinction claimed for it. 
In a fossil state it is recorded from the Pleistocene deposits of Barnwell Abbey, 
Cambridge; Swanscombe, Kent; and Copford, Essex. It also oceurs in the Holo- 
cene deposits of Uxbridge and Staines, Middlesex ; Walthamstow, Chignal, and 
Ilford, Essex; Greenhithe in Kent; Westbury in Gloucester; Clifton-Hampden in 
Oxfordshire ; and Knettishall in Suffolk. 
In a recent state it is widely distributed through the continent, and is found in 
the Balkan peninsula, but precise records are not always available. 
CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
Germany—Recorded as living in Alsace, Baden, Brandenberg, Holstein, Nassau, 
Prussia East, Posen, Reuss, Saxony, Silesia, Suabia, Thuringia, and Wurtemberg. 
France—Known to occur throughout the country, and has been especially noted 
from Ain, Aisne, Alpes Maritimes, Ardennes, Aube, Basses Pyrénées, Charente 
Inférieure, Gard, Gironde, Lozére, Morbihan, Nord, Savoy, Seine, Seine-et-Marne, 
Vienne, Vaucluse, and Yonne. 
Austro-Hungary—Reported from Austria, Bohemia, Carinthia, Carniola, Galicia, 
Hungary, Styria, and Tyrol. 
Switzerland—Only recorded from Aargau, Appenzell, Basel, Berne, Grisons, 
Lucerne, Neuchatel, and Valais. 
Italy—Recorded from Lombardy, Piedmont, and Venetia. 
Spain—Catalonia, Galicia, and the South Pyrenean slope. 
Russia—Known from the Crimea and the Caucasus. 
Siberia—Recorded from Irkutsk and the valley of the Amur. 
North Africa—Bourguignat records it from Algeria. 
Var. hispidosa Mousson, Coq. Schlafli, 1863, vol. 11., p. 25. 
Helix feni var. hispidula Germain, Moll. Angers, 1903, p. 110. 
SHELL globose, narrowly umbilicated, and densely hispid. 
The sub-var. hispidula Germain has the hairs particularly numerous, very fine 
and persistent, having a soft and woolly aspect. 
This is the form which was formerly considered as the type of the species, but 
which is now superseded by Jeffreys’ var. concinna, in accordance with the 
character of Linné’s type shell in the possession of the Linnean Society. 
The Helix hispidosa Bourguignat, Proc. Soc. Nat. Hist. Toulouse, 1879, p. 19, 
is not this form, but related to or identical with the var. deyilata Alder. 
In the British Isles it is widely distributed within the range of the species, but 
is more especially found in shady places. 
CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
France—Sub-var. hispidula is recorded as rare about Angers, Maine-et-Loire, 
by Dr. Germain. 
Russia—Known from many points in the Caucasus; also in Western Trans- 
caucasia ; and Mr. L. E. Adams found it at Libau in Courland. 
Var. depilata Alder. 
Helix depilata Alder, Mag. Zool. and Bot., 1887, ii., p. 107. 
Helix hispida var. 8 Draparnaud, Hist. Moll., 1805, p. 104, pl. vii., f. 21. 
Helix hispida var. subrufa Moquin-Tandon, Hist. Moll., 1855, ii., p. 224. 
Helix hispida var. subrufa Jeffreys, Brit. Conch., 1862, i., 199. 
SHELL almost or entirely destitute of epidermal hairs, labial rib developed. 
The sub-var. subrufa Mog. is described as more solid, smooth and reddish, and 
the sub-var. subrufa Jeffr. as reddish-brown, more solid, with a strong labial rib. 
This form, which is probably identical with the Helix depilata of Pfeiffer, as was 
believed by Mr. Alder, was first indicated and described by Draparnaud, and is 
said by Dr. Jeffreys to be ‘‘not uncommon in dry situations.” 
In the British Isles it is widely distributed, and has been reported in England 
from Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Sussex, Surrey, 
Bedford, Leicester, Norfolk, Suffolk, Gloucester, Hereford, Stafford, Northampton, 
Derby, Nottingham, Lincoln, Cambridge, Cheshire, Leicester, Lancashire, York- 
shire, Westmorland, and Cumberland. 
