260 GEOMALACUS MACULOSTS. 
Var. fasciata Cockerell, Brit. Nat. Cat. Brit. Moll., 1890, p. 18. 
Geomalacus maculosus var. fasciata Cockerell, op. cit. 
ANIMAL white or whitish; mantle marbled with black or dark-brown, and with 
dark lateral bands ; body searcely marbled, pale, with a dark longitudinal subdorsal 
and lateral band on each side. 
This variety is atavistic, retaining to a large extent the characteristic markings 
of juvenile specimens. 
IRELAND. 
Kerry—An island in Dingle Bay, W. Andrews (specimens in Coll., Brit. Mus.). 
Near Lower Cloonee Lake, July 1898, R. Welch. 
Geographical Distribution 
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Geographical Distribution.—The range of this waning species is 
very limited, and its known habitats are markedly discontinuous, as the 
only recorded places of occurrence in the British Isles are in the extreme 
south-west corner of Ireland, which is also a last haven of refuge for 
other forms of life, verging upon extinction in this country. 
It is also recorded from the north-west of France, the extreme north- 
west of Spain, and the north of Portugal. 
It has been reported also from North-east France, but the district cited 
is not a very probable one for the species. 
IRELAND. MUNSTER. 
Cork S.—Found at Castletown-Berehaven, and abonnds at Glengariff from the 
waters edge up to a considerable height, May 1891, R. F. Schartf. Very large 
and almost jet-black specimens abundant on a grassy-bank by roadside just below 
the tunnel near Glengariff, April 1899, A. W. Stelfox. 
Kerry—On the Old Red Sandstone rocks at Onlough, and in the Glen of 
Limnavar by the margin of Lough Caragh, antumn 1842, W. Andrews (G. J. 
Allman, op. cit., p. 298). Many specimens of vars. a/lmani and fasciata in the 
British Musenm, from an island in Dingle Bay, presented by Mr. W. Andrews. In 
a small valley, on a promontory, west of Derrynane Bay, from sea-level up to an 
altitude of more than 1,000 feet on Coad Mountain, between Caherdaniel and Sneem, 
July 1892, R. F. Scharff. Found by Dr. Scully at an elevation of 1,000 feet near 
