HYGROMIA STRIOLATA. 9 
Geological Distribution.— //. striolata bas not been found as yet 
below the deposits of Pleistocene age, either in the British Isles or elsewhere. 
PLEISTOCENE. —In Wiltshire it has been recorded from the brick-earth, Fisherton, 
by Mr. Blackmore. 
In Dorset, it has been recorded from the tufa at Blashenwell, by Mr. J. C. 
Mansel-Pleydell, and by the Rev. R. A. Bullen from Portland Bill. 
In Essex, it has been recorded from the Mammaliferous beds of Grays, as well 
as from Clacton and Copford by Prof. Morris; froin the Paleolithic sand of the 
Lea Valley by Mr. Worthington G. Smith; and from Harwich on the authority of 
the late Dr. S. P. Woodward. 
In Suffolk, it has been recorded by Prof. Morris from the Mammaliferous beds 
of Stutton. 
In Laneashire, from the upper layers of ‘‘cave-earth” at the ‘‘ Dog-holes,’ 
Warton Crag, by Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson. 
In Germany, Herr Clessin records Helix rufescens from Bavaria in the Pleistocene 
tufa of Regensburg, and from the loess of the Danubian valley ; Prof. Sandberger 
from the Lower and Middle Pleistocene deposits at Grotzingen, Baden, and as the 
var. montana from the Lower and Middle Pleistocene sands at Mosbach and Mauer, 
also the deposits at Oos, Altmalsch, Miihlhausen, Heidelberg and Neckarelz, Baden ; 
in tufa of Lower and Middle Pleistocene age at Cannstadt, Wurtemburg ; in the 
Lower and Middle Pleistocene deposits of Oppenheim, and the Erbenheimer valley, 
near Wiesbaden in Hesse-Darmstadt, and at Bad Ems, Nassau. 
In the Upper Pleistocene, Prof. Sandberger records it from Weimar in Thuringia, 
the tufa of Cannstadt, Wurtemburg, and in the valley loess at Lommatzsch and 
tobsehutz, Saxony. 
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In Holland, as Helix rufescens var. montana it is recorded by Prof. Sandberger 
from the Lower and Middle Pleistocene of Brommeln near Maestricht. 
In Austria, Sandberger also quotes the typical form of Helix rufescens from the 
valley loess of both Lower and Middle Pleistocene age at Nussdorf near Vienna. 
HoLoceNne.—It has been found in numerous Holocene deposits in this country, 
but there are few continental records. A 
In Somersetshire, it is recorded by Kennard and Woodward from an alluvial 
deposit at Castle Cary. 
In Wilts., it was found in the surface deposits at the great circle at Avebury 
by Mr. Harold St. George Gray. 
In Kent, it was recorded by the Rev. R. Ashington Bullen from a road section 
under the South Downs, Folkestone, and in a deposit at Barton Court, Dover ; 
Mr. Spurrell found it in a section exposed at the sewer-outfall at Crossness ; 
Kennard and Woodward quote it from the base of an early Romano-British tumulus 
at Stanley’s Quarry, Ightham; and Prof. Morris notes it from loamy sand and 
pebbles exposed in the excavation for new reservoir at Maidstone. 
In Hampshire, it has been found in friable caleareous tufa at Twyford by Mr. 
Chas. Ashford ; and recorded by Mr. J. '[. Kemp from tufa near the Southampton 
Waterworks, in mole-hills in the Anton Valley, and in the valley of the Test. 
In Middlesex, Mr. J. E. Cooper detected it in excavations by the Gasworks, 
Staines; Mr. Loydell in a section by the Thames a mile west of the town; Mr. 
Greenhill found it in a sandy deposit of probable ‘‘ Bronze age” at Clapton; and 
Mr. Davies in the excavations at the Houses of Parliament, Westminster. 
In Surrey, it was found by the Rev. R. Ashington Bullen to a depth of four feet 
from the surface in Colley Pit, Reigate. 
In Essex, it was found in alluvium at Felstead by Mr. French; in the deposits 
on the banks of the river Camm, Chignal St. James, by Mr. Miller Christy ; from 
alluvium at Roxwell, and in a drain-section at Shalford, by the Rev. A. J. Law ; 
from excavations at the Victoria Docks by Mr. Blanford; and from Witham, 
sraintree, Raine, and Tilbury, by Messrs. Kennard, Woodward, Webb and others. 
In Gloucestershire, it is recorded by Messrs. Hinton and Kennard from several 
of the layers in the King’s Beeches Gravel Quarry, Cleeve Hill. 
In Yorkshire, it was found abundantly in the alluvium of the Ribble at Mitton 
Bridge by Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson. 
In Galway, it was discovered by Mr. R. D. Darbishire in the ‘black earth” 
band, Dog’s Bay, Roundstone. 
