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268 HELIX ASPERSA. 
Lancashire Mid—A specimen, labelled ‘‘ Morecambe,” acquired by Mr. J. Ray 
Hardy from a collection formerly belonging to an old Manchester collector. Little 
Layton near Blackpool, R. Drummond. 
York S.W.—Goole, G. H. Parke. 
York N.E.—One on sandhills, Redear, Rev. W. C. Hey ; and enumerated by 
Mr. W. Bean as found at Searborough. 
York Mid W. —Two specimens found by Mr. Phillipson, one in Keighley Ceme- 
tery, and the other at Stockbridge near Keighley. 
Westmorland & Lake Lancs.—A specimen from Ulverston in the Woodwardian 
Collection in the Cambridge Museum 
Isle of Man —Wall, Douglas road, Peel, Ane. 1891, R. Cairns. 
Sligo —Sand dunes, Raghley, July 1904, A. W. Stelfox. 
CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
France—Dr. Grateloup cites Rochelle, Charente Inférieure ; Brest in Finistere ; 
Dax in the Landes ; and Bordeaux, Gironde, as localities where this form has been 
found. Dubrneil says it is rather frequently found about Montpellier, Herault ; 
de  Hépital cites Augherny near Caen, in Calvados; Mauduyt gives Vergne, Vienne; 
Goupil cites Le Mans in the Sarthe; and Régelsperger records it as very frequent 
about Rochelle, and as also found at Rochefort-sur-Mer, Charente Inférieure. 
Dr. Jeffreys has recorded in ‘* British Conchology,” p 182, that M. @Orbigny 
had a colony of the sinistral monstrosity in his garden at Rochelle. 
IRELAND. 
Africa—A specimen in the British Museum labelled ‘‘ Helix aspersa, Africa,” 
T. D. A. Cockerell, June 1885. 
Victoria—A sinistral specimen found by Mr. R. Cairns amongst a number of the 
normal form sent from Geelong. 
Monst. cornucopiz Gmelin. 
Cornu copie Born, Index Mus. Cesar. Vindob. Testacea. 1778, p. 271. and plate. 
Serpula cornu copie Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1790, ed. xiii., vol. vi., p. 37495. 
Cornu copie monstrosum Ch=mn., Conch. Cab., 1795, vol. xi., p. 292, tab. 211, ff. 2092, 2093. 
Cornucopia helicina Shaw, Nat. Misc., 1803. xiv., p. 56%. 
Helix (Helicogena) aspersa monstr. 8 scalaris Fér., Tabl. Syst., 1821, p. 34, pl. 19, ff. 3-9. 
SHELL elongated, and the whorls more or less dislo- 
cated ; in extreme examples resembling the cornucopia 
or ‘thorn of plenty.” 
ENGLAND AND WALES. 
Cornwall W.—A cornucopia-shaped specimen, found 
in the garden of Mawnan Sanctuary near Falmouth by 
Rey. W. Roger, is now in the Truro Museum. 
Somerset N.—Specimens, resembling Vivipara vivi- 
pare in form, found on the cliffs towards Ladies’ Bay, 
Clevedon, by Rev. Canon Norman. Two fine elongately 
sealarid shells from the ‘‘ereel” of a ‘‘wall-fish” collector 
at Bruton ! E. W. Swanton. Bath, Mrs. Oldroyd. 
Devon S.—A specimen, labelled ‘var. scalaris, 
Honiton,” in the Alder Collection, Neweastle Museum. 
A specimen, labelled ‘‘ var. subscalare,” in the Parfitt 
Collection, Exeter Museum, and probably collected in 
the vicinity. A specimen found in Devonshire by Mr. 
Johns, of Plymouth, is figured in Leach’s Moll. Great Brit., plate ii., fig. 2. 
Isle of Wight —Ventnor, Dr. Gray (Venables’ Guide to I. of Wight, 1860, p. 463). 
Kent W.— Chislehurst, July 1885, T. D. A. Cockerell. Abbey Wood, May 
1894, A.S. Poore. A cornucopia-shaped specimen is recorded by Dr. Turton as 
found at Dartford by Mr. Swainson. 
Oxford—Mr. Whiteaves records a specimen found at Summertown, which is now 
in the museum; and Mr. Collinge reports a scalariform shell from near Doddington. 
Cambridge —A sulbscalariform example, with diameter of 21 mill. and altitude 
of 25 mill., in garden, Cambridge, Hugh Watson. 
Gloucester W.—Arbutus Walk, Blaise Castle Wood, near Henbury, Bristol, 
and now in the British Museum, 8. G. Perceval. Miss F. M. Hele has also found 
two specimens near Bristol, approaching the cornucopia form. 
Hereford—A very perfect scalariform shell from Ross, W. C. Blake. 
Pembroke —South Cliff, Tenby, 1895 ! A. G. Stubbs. 
Norfolk E.—Cromer, July 1883 ! Rev. Dr. MeMurtrie. 
Fic. 325.—Helix aspersa m. 
cornucopice Gmel. (Falmouth). 
