HELIX HORTENSIS. 343 
The var. minor of Cockerell (Nat. World, 1885, p. 145) is described as 18 mill. 
in diameter and 15 mill. in altitude. 
Dumont and Mortillet note that in Savoy this variety is found on the moun- 
tains or the upper part of the valleys ; and Mr. J. Hawkins, of York, has recorded 
that when living on Vetch (Vicia sativa) the shells of this species are almost 
uniformly dwarfed or stunted in size. 
; ENGLAND. 
Devon S —Common, Alphington, E.D. Marquand. Teignmouth, L. St. G. Byne. 
Devon N.—Ilfracombe (Beeston and Wright, l.e.). ; 
Somerset N.—Bath, June 1886, Miss Fairbrass. Blagdon, Ane. 1883, Miss Hele. 
Bratton St. Maur, E. W. Swanton. Bruton, Sept. 1910! C. D. Heginbotham. 
Hants. S.—Christchurch, 1885! C. Ashford. 
Kent E.—lolkestone, 1883, Mrs. Fitzgerald. 
Bedford—Ampthill, 1886, C. Ashford. 
Northampton—Swarming in hedges, Warkton, May 1895; Weekly, Oet. 1907 ! 
stone quarries, Blisworth, June 1895; Luddington, Sept. 1898; Clapthorne, June 
1909; railway bank, Kettering ; and Middleton, Sept. 1897, C. E. Wright. 
Gloucester E.—Gloucester, July 1885! Rev. H. Milnes. 
Notts.—Thrumpton, 1879, C. T. Musson. Colwick, B. Sturges Dodd. 
Derby—Matlock, J. A. Howe. Cavedale, July 1901, J. Wilfrid Jackson. 
York S.W.—Newton and Oulton, 1883, J. Wileock. 
York Mid W. — Knaresborough, 1881, Rev. W. C. Hey. — Boston Spa, 1884, 
J. Emmet. St. Mary’s, York, July 1879! W. Denison Roebuck. 
York N.W.—Gunnerside, July 1884 ! W. Denison Roebuek. Croft near Dar- 
lington, June 1893 ! C. Oldham. 
Cheviotland—Alnmouth, 1889, Rev. Dr. MeMurtrie. 
Cumberland —Bassenthwaite, W. J. Farrer. 
SCOTLAND. 
Perth Mid—Mr. H. Coates records that this form is very loeal at Balgowan. 
Perth N.—Glen Tilt, alt. 1,600 ft., and Blair Atholl ! Dr. Buchanan White. 
Kincardine—Stonehaven ! W. Turner. 
Ross W.—Recorded hy Dr. J. G. Jeffreys from Loch Carron. 
Sutherland W.—Kyle of Toneue, July 1883 ! W. Baillie. 
Shetland Isles—Recorded by Dr. Jeffreys on the authority of Mr. Barlee. 
FOREIGN DISTRIBUTION. 
Germany — Georgenthal, Thuringia, May 1904! I’. H. Sikes; Ems, Nassau ! 
R. F. Scharff; and recorded by Meyer from Alsace. 
France — Recorded from Cussac, Haute Loire, by Pascal; from Auvergne by 
Souillet; by Dumont and Mortillet from Savoy; and by Moquin-Tandon from 
Toulouse, Haute Garonne; Soreze, Tarn; and Pyrénées Orientales. Found by Mr. 
W. Eagle Clarke at Ax and Tarascon, Ariége, in May 1889 ! 
Belgium—Sub-var. minima, rather common at Spa, on the road to Barisart, 
Liége, J. Colbeau ; and also found at Hastiéres-Lavaux, Namur, Mr. A. E. Craven. 
Spain—Reported by Mr. W. Eagle Clarke from the republie of Andorra. 
Austro-Hungary — Recorded for churchyard walls near Bolmisch-Leipa and near 
Turnau, Bohemia, by Slavik. 
Norway—Jarlsbere, Christiania, Lier, Modum, and Fredrikshald in Christiania 
Stift, and Lillesand in Christiansand Stift, Miss Esmark. 
Sweden—Lutterhorn, Faré Isle near Gothland (Westerlund, 1.c.). 
United States —Prof. Cockerell referred to this variety a specimen 17 mill. in 
diameter found by Mr. J. H. Thomson at Gay Head, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. ; 
and Mi. G. H. Clapp records a somewhat smaller shell from Rockport. It is also 
reported from other localities in Massachusetts and from Maine. 
VARIATIONS IN COLOUR OF SHELL. 
This section, which includes all the different ground colours to which the species 
is liable, has been distinguished, when devoid of banding, as var. concolor by Picard, 
as var, unicolor by Moquin-Tandon, and as var. infasciata by Puton. 
, ; 
Var. alba Picard. 
Helix hortensis var. alba Picard, Mol. Somme, 1840, p. 218. f 
Helix hortensis var. albina Moquin-'andon, Hist. Moll. France, 1859, ii., p. 168. 
Helix hortensis var. grisea Esmark, Journ. of Conch , 1886, p. 109. 
Helix hortensis var. isabellina Esmark, op. cit. 
Helix hortensis var. alba unicolor Voycott and Bowell, Contr. Fauna Heref., 1899, p. 63, 
SHELL white, sometimes slightly greenish, 
