ASHFORDIA GRANULATA. cis 
In West Sussex, it has been found by the Rev. W. A. Shaw in a deposit near 
West Stoke, Chichester. 
In South Essex, it is recorded by Messrs. Kennard and Woodward from the 
alluvial shell marl of the River Lea, Walthamstow. 
In North Essex, it is recorded as H. sericea Miill. from the shell marl at Fel- 
stead by Mr. J. French; and by Mr. R. Miller Christy as rare in alluvial shell 
marl and black earth and peat on the banks of the River Camm, Chignal St. James. 
In Oxford, it is recorded by Messrs. Kennard and Warren from a deposit on the 
banks of the Thames at Clifton-Hampden. 
In Yorkshire, Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson has found it sparingly in the alluvial 
earth of the Ribble Valley at Great Mitton. 
Variation.—A. granulatw does not exhibit a great range of variation ; 
many varieties have, however, been attributed to this species which in all 
probability belong to Hygromia hispida and its related forms, with which 
the present species has been so long confounded and with which it has no 
very intimate structural relationship. 
It is curious to note that the specimens from the Isle of Skye in the 
north of Scotland are much more depressed in shape than southern shells, 
approaching in this respect Hygromia hispida which it apparently to some 
extent repiaces in the north of Scotland. 
In South Wales, on the North Cliff, Tenby, the shells are stated to be 
very thin and only sparingly hirsute; while those from the Land’s End in 
the extreme west of Cornwall are remarkable for being often found in a 
soft and collapsible state, doubtless an effect of the absence of limestone 
in that region. 
VARIATION IN FORM OF SHELL. 
Var. carinata 'T'aylor. 
Helix sericea var. carinata Taylor, Journ. ATU 
of Conch., vol. iv., p. 31, 1883. & 
SHELL sharply angulated at the periphery. B77) 
Aperture, diam. 4 mill. ; alt. 23 mill. 
ENGLAND. 
Surrey — Aimshouse road, Haslemere, 
Chas. Pannell, Journal of Conchology, vol. x., p. 173. 
York Mid W.—Banks of the River Wharfe, near Addingham (Taylor, |}.c.). 
Fic. 109.— A. eranulata var. carinata 
Taylor, x 3, Addingham near Ilkley, Yorks. 
VARIATION OF SUBSTANCE OF SHELL. 
Var. cornea Jeffreys. 
Helix sericea var. cornea Jeffreys, Brit. Conch., 1862, vol. i., p. 202. 
SHELL horn colour, very thin, glossy, and semi-transparent, the labial rib per- 
ceptible on the outside. 
On St. Mary’s, and other of the Scilly Isles, this variety grows to a good size, 
and is the prevalent form there, the extreme tenuity of the shells being probably 
due to the islets being entirely granitic, while at the Land’s End, West Cornwall, 
where the geological formation is granite and shale, the tenuity is so extraordinary 
that the shells living there are quite soft and collapsible and little more than a 
chitinous film. 
Dr. T. Scott has observed that at Tarbert the var. cornea was found indifferently 
under stones, or on grass, nettles, cow parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium), and beaked 
parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris). 
ENGLAND AND WALES. 
Scilly Isles—St. Mary’s, Tresco, and other islets, July 1875! W. H. Hatcher. 
Cornwall W.— Abundant, St. Ives, Sept. 1885! J. E. Mason. Newquay! Truro ! 
and Falmouth ! J. H. James, 1888. Land’s End, C. E. Wright. 
Devon S.—Paignton, Aug. 1884 ! Sydney C. Cockerell. Torquay, scarce, Aug. 
1888 ! Loftus St. George Byne. 
Devon N.—Combe Martin, E. Collier, 1886. 
Dorset—Lulworth (Jeffreys, Brit. Conch., vol. i., L-c.). 
Hants N.—Preston Candover, Oct. 1883, Rev. H. P. Fitzgerald. Swarraton, 
Jan. 1886! Rev. W. L. W. Eyre. 
