HYGROMIA HISPIDA. ae 
Wales—Recorded from Pembroke, Merioneth, and Denbigh. 
Scotland—Lanark, Renfrew, Main Argyll, Dumbarton, Perth, and Forfar. 
Ireland—Noted from county Leitrim. 
CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
Germany —Found at Triberg by Mr. F. H. Sikes and recorded from Mannheim, 
Baden, by Mr. Daniel; and from Nassau by Dr. Kobelt. The Helia depilata C. Pfr. 
is recorded from Cassel and from the Kratzenberge by its author ; and by Dr. L. 
Pfeiffer from Heidelberg. 
France—Dr. Grateloup cites this form as inhabiting the centre, north, and west 
of France; M. Cardot as common in the Ardennes; Dumont and Mortillet for 
Savoy; Capt. Wattebled from Cote d’Or; M. Locard from the Ain; de Hopital 
from Calvados; M. Clement from the Gard ; and Mr. E. Collier from the Jura. 
The sub-var. subrufa from Morbihan by Taslé ; and from Herault by Dubrueil. 
Switzerland—M. Charpentier quotes var. depilata from St. Maurice, Valais. 
Norway—The var. depilata is recorded from about Christiania by Miss Esmark. 
Sweden—Dr. Westerlund records its presence at Lund and Christianstad, Skane. 
Denmark—Recorded from Veile, Jutland, by Dr. Westerlund; and by Steenberg 
from near Copenhagen. 
Russia— Helix depilata is cited for Kursk by Krynicki. 
MONSTROSITIES. 
Monstr. sinistrum Baudon, Cat. Oise, 1862, p. 24. 
SHELL reversed in coiling. ENGLAND. 
Cambridge—A specimen is recorded by Dr. Jetireys as found by Rev. E. 8. Dewick 
in a post-tertiary deposit near Cambridge. 
Berwick—A specimen of the openly umbilicated form found by Mrs. Carphin at 
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Coldingham near Eyemouth ! CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
France —Recorded by Norguet from Avesnes, Nord; by Dr. Baudon from the 
Prairie de Moineau, near Mouy, Oise; and by Locard as very rare in the alluvium 
of the Rhone to the north of Lyons in the department of the Ain. 
Belgium—Recorded by M. Roffizen from the left bank of the Meuse, between 
Waulsort and Hastiére in the province of Namur. 
Monstr. sealaroides Baud., Cat. Oise, 1862, p.24, & J. de Conch., 1884, pl. ix. 
More or less scalariform. Dr. Baudon describes his type specimen as having the 
first three whorls obliquely inclined to the axis, and almost detached from the 
fourth whorl, which surmounts but is sharply separated from the body whorl, 
appearing like two shells of unequal size superposed. 
ENGLAND AND WALES. 
Kent W.—A characteristic specimen found by Mr. J. Stacey, at Stony Hill 
Wood, May 1894, is now in the collection of Mr. A. 8S. Poore. 
Cheshire—Marple Woods, J. Wilfrid Jackson. 
Cumberland—Ireby, three specimens, April 1910, W. J. Farrer. 
Isle of Man—Niarbyl, Aug. 1893, R. Cairns. 
CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
France—Recorded by Moquin-Tandon from Paris; and by Dr. Baudon from 
Prairie de Moineau, Oise. 
Geographical Distribution.— Hygromia hispida is widely dispersed 
throughout Central Europe, and extends as far as the Ussuri and Amur 
Valleys in the extreme east of Asia, and has been carried by commerce and 
become established in North America. 
Under the name of Helix sericea Draparnaud, ea €> 
it 1s probably more widely known throughout « at? 
the continent than the typical H. hispida, of pic. a4. Hettx sericea Drap. 
which it isa thinner, more globose, more hispid, natural size and enlarged (after 
and more narrowly perforate form. It has been ?**P""72"® 
and still is a source of much confusion to systematists, Dr. Jeffreys at one 
time even considering it as synonymous with the differently organised 
HT. granulata Alder. 
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