XEROPHILA VIRGATA. Tao 
The var. B of Gassies is said to be more discoid than type ; the var. C is discoid 
and greyish ; and var. G is described as depressed, ete. 
The sub-var. lauta is globosely depressed. Diam., 14-18 mill. ; alt., 9-13 mill. 
Fic. 242. Fic. 243. Fic. 244. Fic. 245. 
Fic. 242, 243.—H. virgata var. depressa Requien (1. dauta Bourguignat), Algiers (after Bourgt.), 
Fic. 244, 245.—N. virgata var. durtalensis Germain, Durtal, Maine et Loire, France (after Germain), 
The var. subaperta Jeffreys has a more depressed spire and a wider umbilicus, 
and is regarded by its author as allied to the Helix neglecta of Draparnaud. 
The sub-var. durtalensis is described by Dr. Germain as a large depressed 
form, and is also constituted a var. major of H. cyzicensis. Diam., 17-18 mill. ; 
alt., 13-14 mill. 
BRITISH DISTRIBUTION. 
England—The var. depressa is recorded from Barnstaple, Devon, by Mr. F. J. 
Partridge ; from Swarraton, Hampshire, by Rev. W. L. W. Eyre; from Carisbrook, 
Isle of Wight, by Mr. G. K. Gude; from Oxford by Mr. A. H. Jowett-Murray ; 
from Tenby, Pembrokeshire, by Miss F. M. Hele; from Canwick, Lincoln, by Mr. 
J. F. Musham; this last speciinen was 18 mill. in diameter and 10 mill. in altitude, 
and had the markings ascribed to var. picturata. 
The sub-var. subaperta is recorded by Dr. Jeffreys from Bath, Somersetshire ; 
from the Downs, near Winchester, by Mr. J. R. le B. Tomlin ; at Folkestone, Kent, 
by Mrs. Fitzgerald ; at Ambrosden, Oxford, by Mr. Lionel E. Adams; and by 
Mr. J. Blackburn, at Boston Spa, Yorkshire, in Sept. 1886. 
Wales—Mr. F. W. Wotton has found var. depressa on East Moors, Cardiff. 
FOREIGN DISTRIBUTION. 
France—It is recorded from the environs of Paris by M. Pascal ; from Bordeaux, 
Gironde, by Dr. Scharff; reported from Nice, Alpes Maritimes, by Prof. T. D. A. 
Cockerell ; and by Requien for several places in Corsica. 
The sub-vars. B, C and G are all reported from the Agenais by Dr. Gassies. 
The sub-var. dauta Lowe is found on all the oceanic and Mediterranean shores of 
Western Europe, and was originally described from Madeiran specimens, and has 
been noted in France from the Aisne, Bouches-du-Rhéne, Gard, Var, and Vaucluse. 
The sub-var. durtalensis is recorded by Dr. Germain from Durtal near \ngers, 
Maine-et-Loire, and from Rochelle, Charente Inférieure. 
Spain—The sub-var. dauta is recorded from Alcudia, Island of Majorca, by the 
Rey. R. Ashington Bullen. 
Var. carinata Jeffreys. 
Helix virgata var. carinata Jeffreys, Brit. Conch., 1862, vol. i, p. 210. 
Helix variabilis var. cavinata Pirona, Moll. Friuli, 1865, p. 13. 
Helix variabilis vy. subcartnata Moq.-Tand., Hist. Moll., vol ii, p. 263, pl. 19, ff. 25-26. 
Helix lineata var. subcarinata Bourguignat, Mal. Alger., 1864, voi. i, p. 220. 
Helix obsoleta Ziegler. Pfeiffer, Mon. Helic. Viv., 1848, vol. i, p. 158 
Helix lineata var. 1, de L’Hépital, Moll. Caen, 1889, p. 22. 
The var. earinata Jeffreys is described as ‘‘ compressed 
above, periphery strongly keeled,” adding the subsidiary 
character ‘shell yellowish-white,” which is not an essentially 
correlate feature. The var. carinata Pirona has the “last 
whorl acutely carinate.” 
The sub-var. subearinata Moa. is described as last whorl Fic. 246.—X. virgata 
flatter, and subearinate ; the var. swbhearinata Bourget. has an var. carinata Jeffreys. 
obsolete keel on the last whorl, which disappears at the aper- busy ree Tee OSES 
ture; the var. H. lineata var. I de L’Hépital has a more ae a ; 
risen spire, is of a white colour, and the last whorl often subcarinate. 
The sub-var. obsoleta Ziegler is described by Pfeiffer as small and white, with 
a blunt keel, and may be doubtfully placed under this head. It is the H. virgata 
var. Y of Dr. Pfeiffer. 
