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284 HELIX NEMORALIS. 
In Germany, it is recorded by Sandberger from Middle Pleistocene tufa 
beds at Cannstadt, Weimar, Muhlhausen, and Burgtonna, Thuringia, 
though never plentifully, and in typical form in tufaceous beds of Upper 
Pleistocene age at Wetmar, Mirhlhausen, and Burgtonna, ‘Thuringia, 
and Canth, Silesia. Do. von ihering records it from diluvial tufa at 
Streitberg and Ober Zaw™shach in Franconia ; O. Schmidt from 'l'aubach, 
‘Thuringia ; 8. Clessin fi -u tufa about Regensburg, Bavaria; and Helix 
nemoralis var. major for y, arzburg, Lower Franconia. 
Helix tonnensis is described by Dr. Sandberger as very rare in tufa of 
Upper Pleistocene age at Burgtouna, ‘I’ huringia ; and ny Clessin from the 
tuta of Unteralling near Regensburg, Bavaria. 
In France, it is recorded by Prof. Prestwich from the high-level gravels 
of the Somme. In the Alpes MV .ritimes, Comm. Caziot cites it as common 
in all Pleistocene deposits abou. Villefranche-sur-Mer, and as quite typical 
from the ‘“Limons” at the mou h of the Var; while G. Nevill records a 
form regarded as a variety in the marl bed at Cape Mortela near Mentone. 
Sandberger reports it from the Upper Pleistocene deposits at Montreuil, 
Joinville, and Clichy in the department of the Seine ; and M. Locard from 
Bas Boulonnais, Pas-de-Calais; Valliéres-les-Grandes, Indre et Loire ; Kers, 
Haute Garonne; in the Cavernes de Poudres, Gard ; and the Grottoes of 
Grimaldi, Porto Maurizio, Corsica ; and from Middle Pleistocene strata in 
the environs of Marseilles, Bouches-du-Rhone, and Celle, Seine-et-Marne. 
In Italy, it is reported from ‘l'uscany in the post-Pliocene conglomerate 
with mammalian bores at Monte ‘lignosa near Leghorn; and by Dr. 
Pantanelli from post: ocene deposits at Colle Val d’Elsa and Chiusdino. 
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HoLocenE.—In West Cornwall, it has been recorded by Kennard and 
Warren from Newqray, in a loamy-sand deposit of late Pleistocene or 
early Holocene age, om'whence a fossil dart of the species was obtained ; 
specimens were also found in the zolian sands capping ‘Towan Head. 
Rey. R. Ashington P dlen found very large specimens in the ‘“ kitchen- 
midden” just outside he late Celtic cemetery, Harlyn Bay. 
In North Devon, it .as discovered in the raised beach at Saunton in 1903 
by Mr. F. J. Partridge. 
In South Somerset, it was found commonly in 1907 by Mr. H. St. George 
Gray in the excavation of Wick Barrow, known locally as ‘Pixies’ Mound,” 
at Stoke Courcy, and attributed to the Bronze age. 
In North Wilts., it was found by Mr. H. St. George Gray in deposits of 
Bronze age at Avebury ; also at a depth of six feet in a deposit of Roman 
age, and from the superficial earthy layer during the same excavations. 
In South Wilts., Rev. R. A. Bullen records the species from a rain-wash 
in West Harnham chalk- -pit, Salisbury. 
In Dorset, it is recorded by J. C. Mansel-Pleydell and Clement Reid 
from the tufaceous beds at Blashenwell, near Corfe Castle, and quite con- 
trary to Mr. Abbott’s experience in Pleistocene deposits Mr. Reid especially 
remarks on the total absence of all intermediate forms linking this species 
with hortensis, all the H. nemoralis being large, depressly globose, and of 
an uniform yellow or amber colour with “dark lips, while the H. hortensis 
were smaller and more globular, very pale and five-banded. Rev. R. A. 
Bullen records it from the superficial deposits on the downs above Durdle 
Barn Door and behind Swyre Head; and Mr. Harold St. George Gray 
found many examples during the excavation of the Roman amphitheatre 
at Dorchester, now known as “ Maumbury Rings.” 
