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Hants. S.—First recorded as a British species in 1831 by Dr. James Lindsay 
who during May 1830 found specimens in Ditcham Wood near Buriton, where it is 
still fairly common. Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys has, however, placed on record that he had 
previously received a specimen from Mr. G. B. Sowerby, collected at the same place. 
Miscombe Hangar near Harting, C. E. Wright. Crabbe Wood, Winchester, Sept. 
1885 ! Thomas Rogers. 
Hants. N.—Alresford, in woods (Bellars, Brit. Shells, 1858, p. 12). Ashford 
wood, and Steep near Petersfield, March 1886, Chas. Ashford. Rather common at 
Stonor Hill (Jeffreys, Brit. Conch., 1862, p. 230). Liss, Feb. 1899, C. Stanley B. Cox. 
Sussex W.—William Wood, Up Park, Rey. W. A. Shaw. Up Park, the 
wooded margins of Charlton Forest, Graffham and Singleton, 1886, W. Jeffery. 
Copse, quarter of a mile north of Pen Hill, Elsted, Clement Reid. Common at 
Rook Clift, Treyford, and thereabouts, chiefly in beech woods, and especially near 
water, Clement Reid and G. Gordon. Didling Hangar; wood below the east end of 
Bepton Down ; Bignor Hill; Glatting Hangar; Farm Wood, Sutton ; Graffham and 
East Lavington on searp at parish boundary ; on scarp at Woolavington Down ; 
Barlavington Hangar; the hazel-copse, Winden Wood near West Dean, and 
Fryar Hangar, Duncton, Clement Reid. The wooded slopes of Duncton Beacon, 
Apr. 1908; and on a damp overgrown road-side bank at Bignor near Amberley, 
remote from the natural scrub of the downs, May 1908, A. W. Stelfox. Lavington 
near Petworth, June 1893, A. G. Stubbs. Hangar south-east of Heyshott Farm, 
Aug. 1906, E. W. Swanton. Phyllis Wood near Buriton, Mr. Houseman. 
On the southern escarpment of the South Downs, Mr. W. Jeffrey recorded it 
from Woodend and Kingley Vale near Chichester, but the Rev. W. A. Shaw believes 
that only dead shells were found, and that they were probably fossil and washed 
from the Post Pliocene deposits of the neighbourhood in which H. obvoluta is found. 
On the east side of the Arun, Mr. W. Borrer is recorded as having found it at 
Spring Head near Storrington. 
Surrey—Several dead shells were found from time to time by the late Mr. 8. J. 
da Costa in widely separated spots in the beech woods of Norbury Park near Box 
Hill, and as the Dorking line of Downs is quite distinct from the Buriton-Duncton 
range, its occurrence there in a living state would be interesting. The Druids’ Grove, 
Dorking, where other dead specimens were found by Mr. Kenneth McKean, is really 
a part of Norbury Park, but consists mostly of yew trees. 
GERMANY. 
Distributed mainly in the west and south of the empire, and specially noted as 
existing in Alsace, Baden, Bavaria, Bremen, Coburg, Darmstadt, Franconia, Gotha, 
Hanover, Holstein, Hesse-Cassel, Lauenberg, Lippe, Lorraine, Magdeburg, 
Merseburg, Nassau, Pyrmont, Reuss, Rhenish Prussia, Saxony, Schleswig, Silesia, 
Suabia, ‘Thuringia, Weimar, Westphalia, and Wurtemburg. 
NETHERLANDS. 
Belgium—Probably found throughout the country, and has been reported from 
Brabant, Hainault, Liege, Limburg, Namur, Luxemburg, and Grand Duchy of 
Luxemburg. 
FRANCE. 
Especially common in the north, central, and eastern regions, and reported from 
the following provinces and departments :—Ain, Aisne, Agenais, Alpes Maritimes, 
Allier, Ardennes, Ariége, Aube, Aude, Basses Alpes, Basses Pyrénées, Calvados, 
Charente Inférieure, Cote d’Or, Drome, Champagne Meéridionale, Gard, Gers, 
Gironde, Haute Garonne, Haute Loire, Haute Marne, Haute Savoie, Hautes 
Pyrénées, Ille-et-Vilaine, Isere, Jura, Landes, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, Lozere, Meuse, 
Maine-et-Loire, Moselle, Nievre, Nord, Oise, Provence, Pyrénées Orientales, 
Puy-de-Déme, Rhone, Saone-et-Loire, Sarthe, Savoy, Seine, Seine-et-Marne, Seine- 
et-Oise, Seine Inférieure, Somme, Var, Vaucluse, Vendée, Vienne, Vosges and Youne. 
ITALY. 
Distributed throughout the peninsula, but chiefly restricted to the southern 
slope of the Alps, and to the upper zone of the Appenines ; and found in Abruzzi, 
Calabria, Campania, Emilia, Liguria, Lombardy, Marches, Piedmont, Romana, 
Tuscany, Umbria, Venetia, and the Island of Sicily. 
