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HELIX ASPERSA. 
Tripoli—Dr. E. von Martens cites Benghazi; and von Barry reports small 
specimens from Gharian in Tarhuna Mountains. 
Egypt—Specimens in the British Museum labelled from Egypt; Schmidt records 
it as found as far as the Nile cataracts ; Mr. Gude reports it from Ramleh ; and 
Mr. J. H. Ponsonby from Alexandria. 
Asia Minor—It is recorded by Férussac for Syria; and by Canon Tristram as 
very common in gardens at Tyre, Sidon, Beyrout, Jaffa, and other places on the 
coast of Palestine, frequently reaching a very large size (Faun. and Flor. Palestine, 
1885, p. 187). 
Dr. Kobelt records it for Caria, Lycia, and Cilicia; Herr Clessin records a thin, 
dark yellow form of medium size with two or three bands from Adalia in Kara- 
man; Dr. Retowski found it abundantly and very constant in form and banding 
at Sinope in Kastamuni; Mr. G. K. Gude has specimens from Trebizond ; Mr. Bliss 
has collected it on the ruins of Magnesia ad Mzeandrum and Priene near Smyrna 
in Aidin; and Dr. Kobelt cites it from the Islands of Cyprus, Rhodes, Leros, and 
Kalymnos. 
ATLANTIC ISLES. 
Azores— Horta, Fayal Island, 1890-1 (Dr. W. H. Rush, Nautilus, 1891, p. 51). 
S. Miguel (Hochstetter, f. Dr. von Martens). 
Madeira—Lives only in a garden at Funchal, but was originally brought from 
Lisbon (R. B. Watson, Journ. de Conch., 1876). 
Canary Isles—Grand Canary, Lieut.-Col. Parry. The commonest shell on the 
island of La Palma, 1906, W. J. Farrer. 
St. Helena—Introduced from Europe, T. V. Wollaston. 
ETHIOPIAN REGION. 
Cape Colony— Introduced at Cape Town by M. M. Dastre, who seattered half a 
caskful of young specimens obtained from the captain of a small war vessel (E. L. 
Layard, The Field, Jan. 11, 1879). On the Cape Peninsula it is abundant at Three 
Anchor Bay, Aug. 1905 ! W. Denison Roebuck ; and at Simon’s Bay and Sea Point, 
Hugh Watson. Very abundant and destructive in gardens about Port Elizabeth 
FF. W. Wotton, Nov. 1892. Port Elizabeth and Cape Town (Melvill and Ponsonby, 
Proc. Mal. Soe., 1898, p. 184). 
Manuritius—Ilound in ‘‘ Plaines Wilhelms,” and, if I remember right, near Vacos, 
not far from Tamarind Falls in the Moka district (Pike’s Subtropical Rambles, 
1873, p. 213). 
Seychelles— Dr. E. von Martens, Ins. Maur. und Seych., 1880, p. 196. 
NEARCTIC REGION. 
Canada—Nova Scotia (Binney and Bland, op. cit.). 
New York—Collected by Dr. Howard N. Lyon in April 1882 near Owasco Lake, 
Cayuga co. (F. C. Baker, Nautilus, 1899, p. 57). 
Maine— Portland (Binney and Bland, Land and Freshwater Shells of N. Amer., 
1869, p. 183). 
Massachusetts—Specimens from Ireland were liberated at Wood’s Holl in Aug. 
1883 by Messrs. E. A. Andrews and B. F. Koons (Bull. U.S. Fish Comm., iv., p. 87). 
South Carolina—In gardens, Charlestown (Binney and Bland, op. cit.). St. 
Peter’s churchyard, Logan street, Charlestown (W. G. eee Proce. Ac. Nat. Sei. 
Philad., 1876, p. 127). Plentiful in St. Michael’s churchyard in 1875 (W.G. Binney, 
Man. Amer. Land Shells, 1885, p. 470). 
Louisiana— New Orleans and Baton Rouge (W. G. Binney, op. cit.). 
California—Introduced forty years ago to the vineyards on the west bank of 
river Guadalupe in Santa Clara Valley by Mr. Delmas, and according to Mrs. Bush 
is extending its range. Mr. Delmas also liberated colonies at San Francisco and 
Los Angeles, and a small colony was established many years ago at San José 
(J. Keep, Nautilus, Sept. 1899, p. 60). Occurs in gardens, ete., around Oakland, 
and Prof. Keep found a fine specimen at Pacific Grove, Monterey. Not uncommon 
in East Side Park, and is also reported from Elysian Park, Los Angeles, possibly 
the descendants of the Delmas colony. 
