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In Donegal, Mr. R. Welch found it abundantly in the kitchen-middens 
and in the land shell deposits beneath them at Rosapenna and 'T'ranarossan, 
Rosguill peninsula; in a rain-wash, Horn Head, and plentiful in deposit 
at base of old dunes, Finner Strand, Bundoran ; Mr. A. W. Stelfox also 
found it abundantly in a three-inch zone below the “kitchen-midden” on 
the dunes, Carrickfin peninsula near Bunbeg. 
In Shgo, it is found calereted in the solid sandstone bands at base of 
old dunes, Strandhill. 
In West Mayo, Mr. J. G. Milne obtained it in Aug. 1886 from the 
“kitchen middens,” Dugort, Achill Island. 
In West Galway, it is found plentifully in the Dog’s Bay deposits, but 
the var. ponderosa is not now found in the ‘ Black band,” where it was 
first discovered, but in a zone much lower. 
In Clare, Miss Parkinson found it abundantly in the crannogues at 
Drumeliff and Clanreen, Ballyallia Lake, Ennis, and very large and heavy 
specimens (one measuring 27 mill. in diameter and 27 mill. in altitude) in 
the Doonbeg sandhills, Lehinch. 
In Belgium, it has been found by M. Jules Colbeau in tufa at Marche- 
les-Dames, Namur. In Brabant, it is recorded by Van den Broeck in tufa 
near St. Gilles ; by Raeymaekers i in ancient alluvium near Brussels ; and 
by M. Gregotre i in the “Tourbe” at Uccle lez-Bruxelles. 
In France, M. Fagot records small specimens in the grey clays of Hers, 
and finer individuals from Caraman, in the commune of Avignonet, Haute 
Garonne; and Mr. J. Paget discovered it in the alluvium behind the 
fortress at Montpellier, Hérault. 
In Sweden, it has been recorded by Dr. Westerlund from the Swedish 
peat moors. 
In Denmark, Dr. A. C. Johansen has reeorded it from Jutland, in the 
ancient Neolithic “kitchen-midden” at Meilgaard; and from the marl-beds 
at Gytje ; on the Island of Zealand it has been found in the old Neolithic 
deposit by the Free Harbour, Copenhagen. 
Variation in Animal.—Few variations or anomalies in the animal 
have been chronicled, although the colour of the body may vary through 
many intermediate shades from a pale greenish-grey or white to a very 
deep leaden hue or almost black. ‘The Rev. R. Ashington Bullen, however, 
found a specimen of the var. wbella at Sevenoaks, in Nept. 1893, possessing 
three anterior tentacles, the additional one, though quite apart from, was 
nearest the right tentacle, and all three were equally used as tactile organs. 
Dr. Fischer also records a specimen collected at Savigny-sur-Orge, Seine- 
et-Oise, which possessed on the rear upper part of the foot a subelaviform 
fleshy growth, about one centimetre in length, and capable of contraction 
and elongation, and which was held almost vertically when the animal was 
in motion. 
Variation in Shell.—In this species, the most protean of our native 
land shells, the variations in ground colour, banding, size, substance, 
sculpture, and lip colouring, are almost infinite, and it would be too 
immense a task to detail the distribution and recorded localities of the 
innumerable modifications. It should, however, be borne in mind that 
although many of the shells are here registered under a single varietal 
