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devoured with avidity, and only the following fungi and edible cultivated 
plants were readily eaten :—Agaricus procerus, Boletus edulis, lussula 
emetica amd LT. heterophylla, the leaves and stalks of cabbage and lettuce, 
the foliage of the leek and onion, and the roots of carrot and radish; a few 
other kinds were sparingly eaten or only nibbled after some abstinence 
from food. 
Geological Distribution.—This species, though so abundant in the 
recent state within its distributional area, has not been found lower than 
the Miocene. 
Mtocent.—In France, Dr. Scharff records this species from the fresh- 
water deposits near Bordeaux, Gironde; and Dr. J. B. Noulet from the 
freshwater beds of Sansan, Gers, although M. Bourguignat denied the 
accuracy of this identification and described the specimens as Helix 
pleuradra. 
PLEISTOCENE.—In South Devon, it is listed by Mr. Pengelly as found 
in the Happaway Cavern near 'lorquay. 
In South Wilts., it has been recorded from the loess of Fisherton Anger 
near Salisbury by Mr. 'T. Blackmore. 
In West Sussex, it was discovered by Mr. J. P. Johnson in the buried 
fluviatile deposit on the foreshore at West Wittering. 
In East Kent, it is recorded from the freshwater marls of Charing and 
Maidstone by Prof. Morris. In West Kent, it is listed by Mr. W. J. Lewis 
Abbott as found in the Ightham fissure near Wrotham. 
In South Essex, Mr. Searles V. Wood has recorded it from the fresh- 
water marls at Grays; Mr. J. P. Johnson from the Uphall brick-yard, 
Ilford; Mr. Blanford from the site of the Victoria Docks; and Mr. 
B. B. Woodward from the marl deposit exposed at Walthamstow by the 
excavations for reservoirs. In North Essex, it is recorded by Prof. Morris 
from the freshwater marls of Clacton and Harwich; and by Mr. J. Brown 
from the black peaty deposit 1 in the brick-field at Copford. 
In Middlesex, it is given by Mr. B. B. Woodward from the fluviatile 
deposits at Clapton ; and was found by Mr. Meyer on the site of the 
Charing Cross railway station, Blackfriars. 
In Cambridge, Mrs. MeKeuny Hughes enumerates it among the species 
found in the gravels at Grantchester and Barnwell Abbey. 
In Germany, it is recorded by Sandberger as very rare in the Lower 
Pleistocene sands of Mosbach, Baden; in the Lower and Middle Pleisto- 
cene calcareous tufa of Cannstadt, Thuringia; and in that of Lower and 
Upper Pleistocene age at Weimar, Grafentonna, and Burgtonna, 'huringia; 
and of Canth in Silesia. Found also in the valley loess of Mid Pleistocene 
age at Robschutz, Saxony, as well as in the tufa at Mithlhausen, Thuringia. 
Dr. Weinland has also put on record its presence in the loess of the 
Suabian Alps in Wurtemburg ; and Clessin has found it in the tufa at 
Oberalling near Regensburg, Bavaria. 
In France, it is recorded from the Upper Pleistocene of the Somme 
Valley, and of Bas Boulonnais by M. Loeard. 
In Italy, it is recorded by Kobelt from the Post Pliocene, Terra Rossa, 
at Monte Pisano; by Issel from the Grotto ot Verzi in Western Liguria ; 
and by Pantane Ni in’ Post Phocene beds at Colle and Chiusdino near Siena 
in ‘luscany. 
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