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Hants. N.—Abundant in a field: at Axford near Preston Candover, July 1883 ! 
Rey. H..P. Fitzgerald. 
Sussex W.—Recorded by C. Merret in 1667 as found in the county of Sussex. 
Recorded from the vicinity of Chichester, but the specimens are said to have been 
obtained in Mr. W. Jeffery’s garden at Ratham, and were imported from Surrey. 
A few dead shells have also Leen found in a copse upon the downs not far from 
Petersfield, but according to Mr. J. E. Harting, the specimens found were probably 
some obtained from Preston Candoyer and liberated in that locality. 
THAMES. 
Kent E.—Mr. E. Jacobs, of Faversham, a subscriber to Da Costa’s British 
Conchology, published in 1778, states in a marginal note uj on his copy, now in the 
library of the Conchological Society: ‘* I doubt their being not indigenous, there 
are plenty of them in my woods at Cader in Ospringe and on the chalkhills there- 
abouts.” 
Faversham ! Miss E. B. Fairbrass. Alundant in hedges, coppices, ete., Charing, 
Sept. 1891, Lionel E. Adams. Near Ashford, 1884, Mis. Fitzgerald. Stalisfield, 
Sept. 1885 ! E. Collier. 
Kent W.—Moderately plentiful in three localities in the Maidstone district 
(Elgar and Lamb, Journ. of Conch., 18938, p. 155). Charlton (H. J. Bellars, Cat. 
Brit. Shells, 1858, p. 16). Chalkhills at Brasted, 1871 ! R. J. Wells. Common, 
Sevenoaks, 1883 ! A. H. Shepherd. Eynsford, Aug. 1884, T. D. A. Cockerell. 
Surrey— Da Costa in 1778 recorded the abundance of Helia pomatia all over the 
downs and in the woods, ete., of Albury, Ashtead, Boxhill, Dorking, and Epsem, 
ascribing their presence in those places to their introduction in the middle of the 
seventeenth century by Mr. Charles Howard, a member of the Arundel family 
(Brit. Conch., p. 71). 
Abundant in lanes and woods, Box Hill, Mickleham, and Dorking (D. Cooper, 
London List, 1836, p. 122). Roadside below Epsom Downs, Apr. 1888! W. Whitwell. 
Common on the chalkhills, Reigate, G.S. and E. Saunders. Red Hill, R. M. Christy. 
White Hills near Godstone, 1890, F. Reynell. Chalk bank near Limpsfield, March* 
1891 ; Chelsham, and downs near Headley, March 1893; and hedges near Ranmere | 
Common, May 1894, T. D. A. Cockerell. Newlands Corner near Gomshall, June 
1894, b. Cole. Barnes Common, C. H. Deadman. Chalk pit, Leatherhead, and 
Chipstead, C. Pannell. Between Woodmanstone and Waltham, July 1904, A. 
Christie. Warlingham, 1884, 8. C. Cockerell. Croydon, E. Simpson. On sandy 
soil, Tyting Farm near Guildford, Sept. 1880, said to have been introduced into 
this district from Italy many years ago by the Earl of Arundel (W. C. Atkinson, 
Nature, May 1883, p. 81). Wychling near Sittingbourne (E. W. Swanton, Nat. 
Journ., 1897, p. 19). Caterham (T. A. Dymes, Sci. Goss., Aug. 1894, p. 148). 
Mr. K. McKean has pointed out that their true metropolis in Surrey may be 
regarded as enclosed by a triangle with Caterham, Boxhill, and Tatstield at the 
apices, and has himself collected the species abundantly in the woods below Botley 
Hill Farm near Titsey, in Aug. 1877, and on the short crisp grass covering the 
chalk heaps in the old quarry at White Hill in 1878. It is found also in the 
quarries at Godstone, and ina lane near Nutfield Marsh on the Lower Greensand, 
almost a mile south of the Chalk escarpment. It has also occurred in the road 
between Smitham’s Bottom and Merstham in June 1880; at Hallelew Farm near 
Warlingham in July 1881; along a hedgerow at the north end of Coulsdon 
Common in June 1887; and unusually dark specimens in a wheat-field between 
Perrots Park and Woodmanstone in May 1883. 
Mr. W. Whitwell has remarked that living specimens have been released acci- 
dentally or purposely about Wandsworth Common and Balham, and this has also 
probably been done at other places. 
Essex N.-—Found by Miss A. Agerth on waste Jand forming the bank of a 
lane near Chalkney Wood, not far from the Old Priory, Chappel; Hoe lane, 
Witham, Mr. Turner; Chignal Smealey, R. Miller Christy (Wilfred Mark Webb). 
Two specimens in Saffron Walden Museum from Great Bardfield. Mr. Webb 
remarks upon these that some years ago the Rev. G. Bailey gave specimens of 
Helix pomatia from a distant locality to some children at Great Bardfield, inferring 
the possibility of the museum specimens being from the same source. 
Herts.— Dr. Martin Lister recorded it as found in fields at Puckeridge and Ware. 
Amongst a rank growth of nettles, grass, thistles, etc., in a chalk quarry at 
Puckeridge, Aug. 1882, E. H. Rowe. Abundant about Castlebury, north of Ware, 
Sept. 1859, W. Turner ; and on the slope of the escarpment at New River Head, 
on Chadwell Hill, near Ware, June 1883. Braughing (H. J. Bellars, Cat. Brit. 
