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FOREIGN DISTRIBUTION. 
France—The var. charpenticri is cited by Moquin-Tandon on the authority of 
M. Charpentier, from the steep banks of the canal, Toulouse, Hante Garonne ; by 
M. Henri Cardot as found rarely at Hautrecy, Ardennes ; from St. Jean de Luz, 
Basses Pyrénées, by Mr. F. H. Sikes ; and by M. Locard from Lyons, Rhone. 
Sub-var. servierensis recorded as rare on stems of Frenienl/um, Roche-Serviere, 
Beaulieu, Maine-et-Loire, by Dr. L. Germain. 
Sub-var. pyranidata is cited from the road between Compiegne and Bienville, 
department of the Oise, by Dr. Aug. Baudon. 
Sub-var. alta is described as found to the north of the Nice Observatory, and 
at Grasse, Alpes Maritimes by Comm. Caziot. 
Sub-var. morbihana is known from Morbihan ; Comm. Caziot records it from 
Auxerre in the Yonne; and Dr. L. Germain from Angers, Maine et Loire. 
Belgium—Var. charpentieri, Rochefort, Namur, recorded by M. J. Colbean. 
Var. seythropa Westerlund. 
Helix lampra var. scythropa Westl., Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, vol. xlii, p. 26, 1891. 
This variety shows characters not altogether in harmony with Verophila itala, 
and may prove to be distinet. It isa much smaller shell, and much more narrowly 
umbilicated than is usual in .Y. ‘tala; the spire is also more exserted, the whorls 
54 in number, and the margins of the aperture much more widely separated. 
Diam., 10 mill. ; altitude, 6 mill. 
Fic, 187. Fic. 188. Fic. 189. 
Fic. 187—189.—\. zta/a var. scythropa Westl. x 1}. Aran Isles, Galway, Sept. 1892, Dr. Scharff 
(named by Dr. Westerlund). 
It was described as a variety of Helix lampra, but it is not improbable that the 
var. scythropa may prove to be a distinct form. 
+ a , IRELAND. 
Galway W.—Aran Isles ! R. F. Scharf. ; 
Var. planorbis Picard. 
Helix ericetorum var. planorbis Picard, Moll. Somme, 1840. p. 239. 
Helix ericetorum var. § Pfeiffer. Monog. Helic. Vivent, 1848. vol. i, p. 163. 
Helix virgultorum Bourguignat in Lecard, Prodr., 1882, pp. 97 and 323. 
The var. planorbis Picard has a shell perfectly ? = 
flat, like a Planorbis, the apex being only slightly ax. 
risen, and may be variously banded, the suture fol- ee 
lows the keel-line almost or quite exactly. ; <4 
The sub-var. virgultorum Bourg. is described by Fic. 190.--.Verophila itala var. 
Comm. Caziot as shell very depressed, with a funnel- — 4/ao0rdvs Picard, : 
shaped umbiliens, and a narrow cirenlar aperture. My atlingten, Seek 
Diam., 12-13 mill. ; alt., 6 mill. +S 
BRITISH DISTRIBUTION. 
Oxford—The var. planorbis inhabits an elevated pasture, at Howe Combe, 
Watlington, July 1907 ! A. H. Pawson. 
Nottingham—Specimens with a flat spire recorded from Winthorpe by the Rev. 
tevett Sheppard (Linn. Trans., 1825, vol. xiv, p. 160). 
Pembrokeshire— Pembroke, 1885! Chas. G. Barrett. 
Cheshire—Chester, 1886! J. R. le B. Tomlin. 
Fifeshire—Links, Elie, Aug. 1886! 'T. Scott. 
FOREIGN DISTRIBUTION. 
France—The var. planorbis was described from specimens found in the Somme, 
and Grainger records a depressed variety (var. subuliraga Mabille) from Bidaseon, 
Basses Pyrenees. 
Thesub-var. virgultorwm is recorded by Abbé Letacq from the plain of Alencon, 
department of the Orne; by Comm. Caziot as found at an altitude of 2,400 feet 
to the north-west of St. Vallier-de-Thiey, Alpes Maritimes ; and by Dr. L. Germain 
for Durtal, Maine et Loire. 
