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Var. lilacina ‘Taylor. 
Helix hortensis vay. lilacina Yaylor, Journ. of Conch., 1883. p. 34. 
Helix hortensis var. pallida Cockerell, Nautilus, 1890, p. 140. 
The var. lilaeina has a shell of a bluish-violet colour. 
The sub-var. pallida Ckll. is of a pale purplish or purplish-brown colour. 
The wost characteristic examples of this variety are beautifully delicate, and 
about York are, according to Mr. Hawkins, found feeding upon Ground Ivy 
(Nepeta glechoma). 
ENGLAND AND WALES. 
Devon S.—Topsham, Aug. 1892 ! Lionel E. Adams. 
Somerset N. — Bath, June 1886, Miss Fairbrass. Var. di/aeina, Holbrooke, 
Bratton St. Maur; and sub-var. pallida, Bratton St. Maur, and Cuckoo Hill near 
Bruton, E. W. Swanton ; Hatch Beauchamp, Rev. E. W. W. Bowell. 
Hants. S.—Hartley eee near Alton, Aug. 1895! 8. C. Clapham. Sub-var. 
pallida, Hayling, June 1896, C. E. Wright. 
Sussex E.— Mountfield, we 1884, ‘I’. D. A. Cockerell. 
Kent W.—St. Mary Cray, Aug. 1883; Eltham, May 1884! Wrothaim, Aue. 1884 ; 
and amonest ivy at C LS ae 1883, Tl. D. A. Cockerell. 
Kent E. —Swanley, | tev Canon Horsley. Preston near Faversham, July 1883, 
Miss Fairbrass ; and Canterbury, 00300, C. E. Wright. 
Surrey— Addington, July 1899, A. Reynell. 
Essex N.—Plentiful at Colchester and Dovercourt, Aug. 1896, the specimens 
tinged with diaphanous yellow, dutea-dilacina, C. E. Wright. 
Bucks.— Wendover, Aug. 1909 ! C. Oldham. 
Suffolk W.—Sudbury, E. Ransom. 
Norfolk E.—Sub-var. pallida Ckll., Catton, A. Mayfield. 
Norfolk W.—North Runeton and Gaywood, also sub-var. pallida, Lynn, Oct. 
1s94 ! I. Petch. 
Northampton—Swarming in hedges, Warkton, May 1895; quarries, Blisworth, 
June 1895; with translucent banding, Stamford road, Kettering, July 1896, C. E. 
Wright. Sub-var. pallida Ckll., Middleton, Aug. 1898 ; Loddington, Sept. 1898 ; 
and at Gutton, where the banded forms 10045, 10005, 00045, 00005, and 12045 oceur, 
C.F. Wright. Duston and Towcester road, ee amen W. H. Hollis. 
Gloucester W.—Little Bourton near Bristol ! Rev. W. L. W. Eyre. 
Worcester—Sub-var. pallida, W teu, June 1888, J. W. Williams. 
Carmarthen—Laugharne, 1885, J. H. James. 
Flint—Ragillt, 1858, H. J. Bellars. 
Lincoln N.—At ‘‘thrush stones” and on Ground Ivy at Read's quarry, Broughton 
Wood, May 1905, Rev. E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock. Sub-var. pallida Ckil., Burwell 
and Haugham Woods, Aug. 1886 ! H. Wallis Kew. 
Leicester and Rutiand—Leicester, Rev. C. E. Y. Kendall. Great Easton, 10045, 
Sep. 1898; var. didacina and sub-var. pallida, Uppingham, July 1899, C. Ei. Wright. 
Notts.—Tuxford, July 1883 ! W. A. Gain. 
Derby — Matlock, H. E. Craven. Sub-var. pallida, Matlock, Thos. Glover ; and 
Miller’s Dale, Aug. 1903, J. W. Jackson. 
Cheshire—b rook lane, (@ esters 1858, H. J. Bellars. 
Lancashire Mid—Newsham, June 1887 ! R. Standen. 
York Mid W.-—Otley, 1886! J.A. Hargreaves. Aberford, July 1909! A. Hartley. 
York S.W.—Canal banks, Idle, 1888, F. Rhodes. Cawthorne, Barnsley, July 
1904! W. E. Brady. Lofthouse, G. Roberts. 
IRELAND. 
Kildare—Monasterevan, Sept. 1910, A. W. Stelfox and R. A. Phillips. 
Queen’s Co.—Rathdowney, R. A. Phillips. 
King’s Co.—Birr, R. A. Phillips. 
FOREIGN DISTRIBUTION, 
Norway—Chiristiania and Jarlsberg, Miss Esmark. 
United States—Sub-var. pallida, Magnolia, Mass., T. D. A. Cockerell. 
Var. olivacea 'T'aylor. 
Helix hortensis var. ol/vacea Taylor, Journ. of Conch., 1888, vol. iv., p. 34. 
Helix hortensis var. filholia and simonia Moquin-Tandon, Hist. Moll., 1859; 115, otk 
Hlelix hortensis var. hepatic a Esmark, Journ. of Conch., 1886, vol. v., p. 109. 
Helix hortensis vay. grisea-brunnea Esmavk, op. cit. 
Helix hortensis var. roseo-hepatica Vsmark, op. cit. 
Helix hortensis var. de corti Schlesch, Fauna Danemarks, 1907. 
SHELL of a deep olive-brown colour. 
