XEROPHILA ITALA. 1 Bian} 
Monst. disjuneta Turton. 
Helix elegans Brown, Wern. Mem., ii, p. 528, pl. 24, f. 9, 1818. 
Caracolla. elegans Brown, Ill. Brit. Conch., Ist ed., Pl 40, f. 28. 
Helix disjuncta Turton, ‘Conch. Dict., p. Gis pl. 16, f. oe, 1819. 
Flelix ericetorum Brown, Ill. Brit. Conch. , p- 00, pl. 17, f. 28, 1844. 
Helix ericetorum var. scalaris Grat. Cat. , p. 7, 1855. 
SHELL scalariform and of a pyramidal form, 
The remarkable shell upon which this variety was 
founded was at first referred to H. arbustorum by Baron 
Kérussac, which view was to some extent shared by Dr. 
Turton, but who, however, decided to regard it as a dis- 
tinct species, though afterwards, in his **Manual,” he 
referred to it as Helix virgata. Specimens more or less 
closely resembling the typical shell have been recorded 
from time to time by various anthors, and have generally P16. 204.—X. zta/a monst. 
disyuncta Turton, 
regarded the specimens as most probably referable to the Galdenibaidees Dublin 
present species. (after Turton). 
BRITISH DISTRIBUTION. 
Northampton—Harrington, Ang. 1904, Rev. W. A. Shaw. 
Cheshire—DBanks of River Dee, C hester, Oct. 1886, J. R. le B. Tomlin. 
Yorks. S.W.—Sandal Castle Hill, Joseph Hebden. 
Antrim—Crumlin, Dr. Kinahan (Nat. Hist. Rev., 1854, i, p. 159). 
Dublin—The original specimen ‘‘ was found in a field beyond Kilmainham Jail, 
near the pupepilee of Golden Bridge, Dublin, by Mr. Edward Stephens” (Brown, 
Wern. Mem., 1818, p. 528). 
Galway East —A pyramidal specimen found at Gort, Oct. 1909! R. A. Phillips. 
FOREIGN DISTRIBUTION. 
France—Vavr. scalaris, Dax, Landes (Grateloup, |.c.). 
Monst. subsealaris Baudon. 
Helix ericetorunt var. subscalaris Baudon, J. de Conch., xxiv, p. 254, pl. ix, f. 10, 1884. 
Helix ericetorum m. subscalare Cockerell, Naturalists’ World, Sept. 1888, p. 79. 
The m. subsealaris Baudon is deseribed as having the last whorl detached from 
the rest of the shell. 
The m. subsealare Cockerell is described as ‘‘ partly subsealariform.” 
Fic. 20d. Fic. 206. 
Fic. 203.—H. ericetorum var. subscalaris Baudon, Chateau de Mello, Oise (after Baudon). 
Fic. 206.—X. t/a/a monst. sudscalaris Baudon, Narrowdale, Derbyshire, J. and W. Hill. 
BRITISH DISTRIBUTION. 
Suffolk W.—Specimen in the British Museum, labelled ‘* Bury St. Edmunds ” 
(T. D. A. Cockerell, Nat. World, Sept. 1886, p. 179). 
Northampton—Harrington, Oct. 1904, Rev. W. A.Shaw. Kettering, C. E. Wright. 
Derbyshire—Narrowdale, near Hartington, May 1919! J. and W. Hill. 
Isle of Man—Whitestrand Bay, Peel, Aug. 1892, W. Moss. 
FOREIGN DISTRIBUTION 
France—The mm. subscalaris is recorded from Park of Chateau de Mello, Oise, 
by Dr. Baudon ; by M. Gustav Sayn from Rousset-en-Vercors in the Dréme; and 
by M. Beaudoin from Chatillon-sur-Seine, Cote d’Or. 
Geographical Distribution.—YVerophilu itula, which is regarded by 
Dr. Scharff as originating in the Lusitanian regions of South-west Europe, 
is, according to our present knowledge, diffused over the greater part of 
the British Isles, though scarce or apparently absent from large areas in 
Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. 
X. itala has been recorded as diffused more or less throughout Southern 
Kurope, but it would appear possible that this may not be so, but that the 
species is represented in the Iberian peninsula by XY. pamplonensis, etc. ; 
