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in deposits of Roman age, exposed during the excavations of a Roman 
villa at Llantwit Major, near Cardiff, by Mr. Storrie. 
It has also been reported from the Yorkshire coast by Mr. 'T’. Hagger ; 
and from near Bath, North Somerset, by Mr. Thos. Rogers and Dr. C. W. 
Viner, who possessed specimens therefrom. 
Fic. 165.—Geographical Distribution of Theba cartusiana (Miill.). 
KV Probable Range Recorded Distribution 
ENGLAND AND WALES. 
Somerset N.—Specimens labelled ‘‘ Bath ” existed in the collections of the late 
Mr. Thomas Rogers of Manchester, and Dr. C. W. Viner of Bath, and records exist 
of the occurrence of this species near Bristol. 
Hants S.—On rushes in Farlington Marsh, Sept. 1909 ! and on Portsdown Hill, 
Oct. 1902, H. Beeston. 
Sussex W.—In great plenty, but of small size, around Littlehampton (Leach, 
Synop., 1852, p. 69). The lower part of the northern slope of Amberley Down, T. 
Godlee. Finden near Worthing, Aug. 1883, A. F. Griffiths. On the sand banks by 
the River Adur, above Old Shoreham, Aug. 1885, W. Jeffery. Bosham, near the 
county boundary of Hants, Sept. 1915, Rev. W. A. Shaw. 
Sussex E.—Particularly abundant on the chalk downs near the coast, Brighton 
(Merrifield’s Nat. Hist. Brighton, 1860, pp. 158 and 223). Common on the South 
Downs near Lewes, and about Beachy Head (Harting’s Rambles, 1875, p. 81). 
Plentiful on the downs at Aldfriston, 1881; at Wannock near Eastbourne ; and 
near Glynde, 1881, Rev. S. Spencer Pearce. Blatchington and Seaford, 1860 ! Rev. 
Canon A. M. Norman. Very abundant on the slopes of Mount Caburn, and on 
Ranscombe Brow near Lewes, but finest on a railway bank about 1} miles from 
Beddingham, Aug. 1883! R. Miller Christy. Plentiful about Lewes, Aug. 1883 ! 
T. S. Hillman. A fine colony on the downs near East Down, Eastbourne, 1900, 
A. G. Stubbs. Hastings and Malling Marsh near Lewes, Sept. 1885, E. Collier. 
Wilmington near Eastbourne, Sept. 1908, W. E. Brady. 
Kent E.—Common on the sandhills about Sandwich, and on the chalk hills 
about Beechborough, Folkestone, 1876, Mrs. Fitzgerald. East Cliff and behind the 
castle, Dover, Aug. 1875, L. E. Adams.  Plentiful near golf-links, Dover, July 
1896 ; on the golf-links, Sandwich, Sept. 1900; the Park, Patrixbourne ; and a 
large colony by the side of the canal, Hythe, Aug. 1909, C. E. Wright. Deal, Mr. 
Corrie and H. C. Leslie. 
Kent W.—A large number of specimens from Sandwich were liberated about 
Chislehurst, but appear to have gradually died out (T. D. A. Cockerell, Journ. of 
Conch., 1884, p. 238). 
