HELIX ASPERSA. Di 
NETHERLANDS. 
Belgium—Recorded from the provinces of Antwerp, Brabant, East and West 
Flanders, Liege, and Limburg. 
Holland—Only known as yet from Zealand, Utrecht, and South Holland. 
ETAL Y: 
Probably diffused over the whole peninsula. It is actually on record from 
Abruzzi, Calabria, Campania, Emilia, Liguria, Lombardy, Marches, Piedmont, 
tome, Tuscany, Umbria, Venetia, and the neighbouring Islands of Capri, Elba, 
Lampedusa, Malta, Pelagosa, Sardinia, and Sicily. 
SPAIN AND. PORTUGAL. 
Spain-- Distributed all through the maritime provinces, but apparently absent 
from the interior of the country. It has been reported from the Basque provinces, 
Old Castile, Asturias, Galicia, Andalusia, Murcia, Valencia, Aragon, Catalonia, 
and the Islands of Majorea, Minorca, and Ivica. 
Portugal — Probably dispersed throughout the country, but records are only 
known from Minho, Beira, Estremadura, and Tras os Montes. 
BALKAN PENINSULA. 
Greece —Apparently dispersed in suitable localities throughout the country, and 
sometimes attaining a large size. It has been recorded from Epirus, Thessaly, 
Morea, and the vicinity of Athens, as well as from Corfu, Cerigo, Cephalonia, and 
Zante among the Ionian Islands; Tinos, Syra, and Euboa in the Grecian Arehi- 
pelago ; and on Mont Skloka, near Canea, in Crete. 
European Turkey—Dr. von Martens reports it from Constantinople on the 
authority of Roth. 
AUSTRO-HUNGARY. 
Only known from the southern parts of the empire, as Carniola, Croatia, 
Dalmatia, Goritz, Illyria, Istria, and South Tyrol. 
SWITZERLAND. 
H. aspersa is not a native of this country, but has been naturalized about Berne, 
Lausanne, Devens, Bex, and probably other places. Charpentier and Jurine also 
cited Geneva, but Dumont and Mortillet regard this as erroneous. 
SCANDINAVIA. 
Norway—One specimen found by Mrs. H. Crowther, of Leeds, in July 1901 at 
Nordheimsund near Bergen. 
Sweden—Mr. J. H. Ponsonby informed me in 1882-that he had in his possession 
a Swedish specimen. 
RUSSIA. 
Recorded for Odessa and Kherson in the government of Kherson by Dr. H. Jordan. 
NORTH AFRICA AND ASIA MINOR. 
Helix aspersa appears to be dispersed along the whole North African seaboard. 
Morocco— Found throughout the north and centre of the country and is specially 
quoted from Tangier and from the island which forms the port of Mogador. 
Algeria—Common and usually much larger and more ventricose than in France. 
It is found on the Plain of Angade on the Morocean frontier; by the Dolmen of 
Guyotville on the Plateau of Beni Messons; in the environs of Oran, Tlemcen, 
Cherchell, Mostaghanem, Algiers, Koleah, Blidah, Medjez-Amar, Amar, Bougie, 
Bone, Constantine, ete. 
In Kabylia it prefers the hills. sheltered from the west winds, and about Boghar 
lives on the trunks of the green oak and in the pine forest of Alep, ete. 
The var. rugulosa is confined to the coast. 
Tunis—Very abundant about Tunis, about the ruins of Utica, Carthage, 
Oudena, ete. In Medjerda Valley magnificent shells are found. In Ain-Draham 
and Fedj-Saha in Kroumirie the shells resemble H. mazzullii of Jan, 
