TESTACELLA SCUTULUM. 17 
seems to be merely an abnormal specimen found fossil at Venddme in the 
department of Loir-et-Cher, described by its author as differing from all its 
congeners by its solid and flat auriculate shell and thickened margins. 
Variation.— This species, which has been misunderstood almost from the 
time of its discovery, and whose specific characters are even yet not univers- 
ally appreciated, has in its various forms been described again and again as 
new by different authors, and although Gassies & Fischer and Moquin- 
Tandon expressly allude to 7. scutulum, it is not at all clear that they had 
the true 7. scutulum before them. 
In this country 7 scutulum is moderately constant in the form of its 
shell and the colour of its body, but abroad this consistency of type is not 
so fully maintained, if the allocation, as suggested by Simroth, of campunyoi 
and other forms to the scutulum series he correct. 
VARIATIONS [IN FORM OF SHELL. 
Var. pecchiolii Boure., Rev. et Mag. Zool., 1861, p. 517. 
ANIMAL yellowish, with a eae of minute ereyish dots h 
on the back ; lateral furrows separate at their origin at the peri- 
pallial groove. | a | 
SHELL narrower and more elongate; COLUMELLA not trun- 
cate and less arcuate; APEX rather pointed and more detached. 
Length, 6 mill. ; breadth, 34 mill. \ / 
Testacella pecechiolii is the T. haliotidea of the older Italian 
authors, and is essentially an Italian form ; most of the Italian Fic. 28. — Testa- 
records of 7. haliotidea are possibly more properly referred to this ee pecchiolii Bat 
at iety. (after Bourg.). 
Italy — Found in the garden of Signor Pecchioli, at Settignano, near Florence ; 
also at Pisa, Bologna, and Rome. It is met with in Venetia and Lombardy ; also 
on the slopes of Monte Cuecia, near Palermo, in Sicily, and the Isle of Ustiea 
ponte , Gen. Test., 1862, p. 61). Apuan Alps, in Tuseany (Stefani, Boll. Soe. Mal. 
Itale, 1875). 
Var. major G. & I, Monog. estacelle, 1856, p. 46, pl. 2, f. 5p. 
Testacella bisulcata var. major G. & F., op. cit.. p. 46. 
Testacella fjischeriana ourg., Rev. et Mag. Zool., Dec. 1861, 
pl. 13, ff. 5-7. 
ANIMAL larger and darker coloured than the typical form, 
with a sharply-detined yellow foot-fringe. s 
SHELL larger and more oval, broadest at its posterior third, \ ap 
anterior end rounded; COLUMELLA more arcuate and scarcely X ee ae 
truncate. Leneth, 6 mill. ; breadth, 44 mill. \ only 
Algeria—Environs of Philippeville and Constantine (Boure., he ne. 
Mal. Alger., 1864, p. 60). Not common on the glacis of the Spe 
fortifications of Bab-Azoun and Bab-el-Oued (Lallemant, Ann. 8S. jajor x 3, G. & F. 
Mal. Belg., 1868, p. 5). Environs of Alger (Lallemant, Moll. (after Gass. & Fisch.). 
Alver, 1881, p. 2). 
VARIATIONS [N COLOUR OF ANIMAL. 
Var. albina G. & F., Monog. Testacelle, 1856, p. 46. 
Testacella bisulcata var. albina G. & F., op. cit., p. 46. 
Testacella scutulum var. pallida Cockerell, Sci. Goss., 1885, p. 225 
ANIMAL yellowish or whitish. 
Middlesex—Chiswick, 1885! T. D. A. Cockerell. Hampstead lane, Highgate ! 
Ferme Park road, and Weston Park, Hornsey ! H. Wallis Kew. 
Lancashire S.—Cuerden Hall, Preston, Jan. 1893! W. H. Heathcote. 
York Mid W.—Dr. Eddison’s garden, Adel, Leeds, Nov. 1896! H. Crowther. 
Leicestershire —Belvoir Castle gardens, Jan. 1888! W. Ingram. 
Louth—Piperstown, near Drogheda, Feb. 1890! Miss Sidney Smith. 
Algeria —Constantine (Gass. & Fisch., op. cit.). 
Var. aurea Cockerell, Se. Goss., 1885, p. 225. 
ANIMAL orange-coloured with brown mottlings ; FOOT-SOLE bright orange. 
Middlesex—Chiswick, 1885! T. D. A. Cockerell. 
Sussex W.—Horsham, 1902! R. D. Darbishire. 
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