262 HELIX ASPERSA. 
. CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
France—Recorded for Toulouse, Haute Garonne, by Moquin-Tandon; for Nimes, 
Gard, by Clement; for Hérault, by Dubrueil ; for the vicinity of Paris by Paseal ; 
for Bordeaux, Gironde, by Dr. Scharff; and Abbe Dupuy records the finding in 1840 
of a perfectly unicolorous grey specimen near Auch, Gers; Cailliaud gives Loire 
Inférieure; and Rev. Father Florence records unicolorous shells with indistinet 
markings from an altitude of over 2,000 feet on the summit of Mount Boussicaut, ~ 
in the Var. 
Sub-var. grisea is cited for the Hérault by Dubrueil ; for the Ain by Loecard; for 
Toulouse, Hante Garonne, by Moquin-Tandon ; for Bordeaux, Gironde, by Dr. 
Scharff; for Anegouléme, Charente, by Prof. de Nerville; and for Rochefort-sur- 
Mer, Charente Inférieure, by Regelsperger. 
Spain—Staff-Surgeon Jones found only one specimen on the Rock of Gibraltar. 
Italy—Dr. Pantanelli records sub-var. grisea from Spoleto, Umbria. In Sardinia 
Staff-Surgeon K. H. Jones reports that half the specimens found at Aranci Bay 
belong to the var. wnicolor ; Marchesa Paulucci also records it from Monte Santo 
di Pula, and sub-var. grisea from Tacquisara. 
Algeria—Specimens of sub-var. grisea, labelled ‘* Helix aspersa, Constantine, 
Hon. A. Russell,” in the British Museum, Sept. 1886 ! 
Var. nigrescens Moquin-T'andon, Hist. Moll. France, 1855, p. 175. 
Tlelix aspersa var. B brunnea Gassies, Moll. Agenais. 1849, p. 82. 
SHELL blackish or brown-black, very smoky, and nearly unicolorous. 
The sub-var. brunnea is described as destitute of banding. 
ENGLAND AND WALES. 
Devon N.—Very thin specimens at foot of walls among coarse grass, Ilfracombe, 
Aug. 1903 (Beeston and Wright, Journ. of Conch., 1904, p. 74). 
Somerset N.—A specimen “literally as black as ink,” Burnham, 1876, Miss 
F. M. Hele. Hedye-banks, Bratton St. Maur, E. W. Swanton. 
Kent E.—Droadstairs, Sept. 1909! F. H. Sikes. 
Northampton—Woodend, A. Loydell. 
Worcester— King’s Norton ! F. Booth. 
Glamorgan—Terrace road, Swansea, H. R. Wakefield. 
Pembroke—On North Cliff and in gardens, Tenby, A. G. Stubbs. 
Cardigan—Aberayron, May 1888! E. Collier. 
Lincoln N.—Howsham, May 1901, Rev. E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock. Hubbard’s 
Valley, Louth, Aug. 1902, C. S. Carter. Lincoln, May 1908, J. F. Musham. 
York N.E.—Searborongh ! J. A. Hargreaves. 
York Mid W.—Ripon ! F. Rhodes. 
Haddington —North Berwick ! Rev. Dr. McMurtrie. 
Aberdeen S.—(Macgillivray, Hist. Moll., 1843, p. 80). 
SCOTLAND. 
IRELAND. 
Antrim—A dark almost unicolorous specimen in greenhouse, Murlough, Sept. 
1896, R. Standen. 
Sligo—Dunes near Raghly, July 1904 (Welch & Stelfox, Irish Nat., 1904, p. 189). 
Sligo, April 1908, F. H. Sikes. 
Mayo W.—Clare Island, 1909 ! R. Welch. 
Cork—Many specimens almost entirely black, July 1907 (Welch and Stelfox, 
Irish Nat., Sept. 1907, p. 281). 
CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
France—Common about Paris according to Pascal. Régelsperger cites it as 
rather common at Rochefort-sur-Mer, Charente Inférieure; Abbe Dupuy has col- 
lected uniform black specimens at Preste, Pyrénées Orientales ; and Grateloup gives 
the var. nigricans as found about Bordeaux, Gironde. As var. brunnea, Gassies 
records it for the Agenais. 
Belgium—St. Gilles near Brussels (Van den Broeck, Ann. Soc. Mal. Belg., 1870, 
p. 20). 
Malta— According to Dr. Gulia, the black variety is occasionally found. 
Loyalty Islands-—-Specimens almost black recorded by Melvill and Standen, 
J. of Conch., July 1896, pp. 87 and 132). 
