76 ASHFORDIA GRANULATA. 
Suffolk W.—On the banks of the River Lark, Mildenhall ! A. Mayfield. 
Norfolk E.—Costessey Common (Pearce and Mayfield, J. of C., vol. vii., p. 396). 
Carmarthen—Common under moss in damp places on the sandhills, Laugharne, 
Sept. 1883! C. Jefferys. 
Pembroke—Castle Cliff, Tenby, moderately plentiful under herbage, Sept. 1872, 
G. Sherriff Tye, J. of Conch., vol. i., p. 30. 
Carnarvon—lIn profusion on the cliffs quite down to the edge of the sea, Nevin, 
Aug. 1910, F. H. Sikes. 
York S.W.—Canal banks between Keighley and Silsden, Oct. 1912 ! F. Booth. 
York Mid W.—Hackfall, March 1880 ! 
Westmorland and Lake Lancashire—Abundant and fine amongst grass in 
pasture near Eggerslack Wood, Grange; also at Meathop on long grass and Meadow- 
sweet, J. Wilfrid Jackson. 
: SCOTLAND. 
Main Argyle— With type about Oban; very large on the Island of Lismore, Aug. 
1893 (Standen and Hardy, J. of Conch., vol. vii., p. 271). 
Cantire—Old Castle of Tarbert, April 1886 ! T. Scott. 
Ebudes N.—Broadford and elsewhere in the Isle of Skye, Aug. 1910! F. Booth. 
VARIATION IN COLOUR OF SHELL. 
Var. albida 'T'ye. 
Helix sericea var. albida Tye, Quart. Journ. of Conch., vol. i., p. 30, 1874. 
SHELL milk-white. 
It is worthy of remark that the known range of this beautiful albine form is 
strictly western in England and Wales, and no reliable record is yet known from 
any other district. 
; ENGLAND AND WALES. 
Cornwall—Mr. Tye records a specimen from Cornwall. 
Pembroke—Not very common, Narberth road, Tenby (Tye, l.c.). 
Denbigh—Gloddaeth Woods, July 1883! W. Denison Roebuck. 
Anglesea—Beaumaris, with type, Sept. 1881 ! L. E. Adams. 
Geographical Distribution.— 4A. granulata is a very widely diffused 
but somewhat sporadic species in this country. In Cornwall and Devon 
and other western districts A. granulata is frequently the commonest and 
most plentiful species. According to our present knowledge, it ranges 
from Elgin and Skye in the north to the Channel Isles and Scilly Isles 
in the south, 
Formerly this species was believed to be an absentee from the Channel 
Isles, but according to Mr. Rimmer it is plentiful in Guernsey, and Mr. 
J. R. le B. Tomlin has reported its occurrence in the Island of Sark. 
Probably it will eventually be found on the other islands also. 
It is also found in Ireland, but its recorded distribution there is even 
more scattered and disconnected, but it would appear to be most widely 
distributed and common in the south-western region. 
On the Continent, though recorded as inhabiting nearly all Europe, and 
specitically alluded to under its proper appellation or under that of one 
or other of its erroneously assumed synonyms, as a denizen of Germany, 
France, Belgium, Austro-Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, 
Greece, Russia, Caucasus, and Algeria, extending in Asia to Irkutsk and 
the River Amur, yet it is more than probable that these records refer 
chiefly to H. sericea of Draparnaud, or to the various other species with 
which A. granulata has been so very generally confused, but as reliable 
figures and description of the shell and the internal organization of the 
animal are now available, it is hoped that a knowledge of its peculiarities 
will become more widely diffused and its true range quickly established. 
