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THEBA CANTIANA. 
Holland—Sub-var. rubescens Moq., very common by the Selzaete, Zealand ; also 
in weedy ditches at Canisvliet near Westdorp ; and commonly at Sluys-Kill. 
Belgium—Sub-var. semirufa, Antwerp (Colbeau, 1.c.). 
Italy —Near Nice, Liguria; also at Siena, Tuseany ; and Salerno, Campania, 
Dr. E. von Martens. It is also recorded from near Pergola in the Marches ; from 
Umbria at Avellana, from the Abruzzi at Monte-Corvo, and Santa-Maria-di-Monte- 
Lence, Terra-di-Lavoro, by the Marchioness Pauluecci; by Statuti as not rare at 
Monticelliand Terracina in Romana; from Bologna and Reggio, Emilia, by Picaglia; 
and by Stabile and others for Piedmont. 
Sub-var. ardesa is recorded from the Apuan Alps by Westerlund, 
Sub-var. riparia, San Germano, Campania (Westerlund, l.c.). 
Asia Minor—Sub-var. carnea Pfr.= Helix transmutata Parreyss, Asia Minor 
(L. Vfeiffer, l.c.). 
Var. albocincta Cockerell. 
Helix orsinii Tiberi, Bull. Soc. Mal. Ital., 1869, p. 66. 
Helix Euomphatia orsinii Picaglia, Bull. Soc. Mal. Ital., 1893, p. 14. 
Helix cantiana var. réddingensis Schlesch, Ann. Soc. Mal. Belg., 1907, p. 116. 
SHELL with a white peripheral zone. 
This is probably an atavie or paleeogeniec form, which 
oceurs sporadically and may be expected to occur most 
plentifully towards the limits of its range or in the less 
desirable and isolated localities. 
The sub-var. orsinii is fulvous, with a peripheral and 
also a sutural whitish zone, though other characters are in- FG.137.— 7. cantianavar. 
volved in the deseription, which would include the shell aa re Ossedby 
in other categories. Diam., 15-20 mill. ; alt., 8$-114 mill. OE ane ae eae 
The sub-var. roddingensis is described as white, with reddish mouth, usually 
with a peripheral whitish zone extending over more than half of the last whorl. 
: ENGLAND. 
Wilts. S.—Shalbourne, June 1915! C. P. Hurst. 
Surrey—Ewell, June 1904, T. D. A. Cockerell. Chalk-pit, Leatherhead, G, D. H. 
Carpenter. ‘Tooting Common, April 1895, C. 8. Coles. 
Bucks. —Ivinghoe, Sept. 1907 ! C. Oldham. 
Northampton—Yardley-Hastings, Aug. 1885! R. Rogers. 
Lincoln N.—Bardney, Dec. 1905! J. F. Musham. 
York S.E.—Lund near Osgodby, June 1890 ! W. Nelson. 
CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
Germany —Sub-var. réddingensis, Rédding, Schleswig, with type (Schlesch, 1.c.). 
France—M. Poiret records this form from the Somme ; and Lieut. Cribb in Sept. 
1916 found this variety in the vicinity of the lagoon Calais, Pas-de-Calais. 
Italy—Sub-var. orsinii is recorded from the Ascoli-Piceno, Abruzzi, by Masearini; 
by Statuti from Sezze, Romana ; and from Modena, ete., Emilia, by Picaglia. 
MONSTROSITY. 
Monstr. sinistrorsum 'l'aylor, Journ. of Conch., Jan. 1909, vol. vi., p. 33. 
SHELL reversed or sinistrally coiled. 
ENGLAND. 
Wilts.—Found in Wiltshire by Mr. Rippon of Norwood, 
and presented to me by Miss F. M. Hele. Rev. Canon Horsley 
also possesses a similar specimen from the same county, 
received from Mr. 8. C. Cockerell, and probably the specimen 
which Mr. Rippon had kept in his own collection. Fic. 198. 7 care 
Dorset—Mr. G. K. Gude also possesses a specimen ob- — monst. sinistrorsum. 
tained in 1895 through a dealer and labelled Dorset. 
CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
Belgium—M. Nyst has found at Antwerp a sinistral shell of this species (Colbeau, 
Ann. Mal. Belg., 1865, vol. i., p. 39). 
