HELIX PISANA. 397 
ASIA MINOR. 
Asia Minor—Distributed along the shores of the Mediterranean, the Sea of 
Marmora, and the south-western region of the Black Sea, and has been reported from 
Kadikoi, Scutari, Smyrna, Alexandretta, Cilicia, Adalia, Pamphylia, and Lyeia, 
also from Jaffa, Beyrout, Gaza, and elsewhere in Palestine, as well as Rhodes, 
Cyprus, Mytilene, Lemnos, Schio, Cos and other islands off the coast; and Mr. Bliss 
assures me that in March 1899 he found it living in the botanical gardens. Tiflis, 
and collected dead shells on the road-side near Ananaur, between Vladikavkas and 
Tiflis, at an elevation of 2,335 feet. 
ETHIOPIAN REGION. 
Somaliland—A bounds on the coast-line from Cape Guardafui to the mouth of 
the Red Sea, from whence the vars. gomaliana and tohenica were obtained. 
Cape Colony—Reported from Port Elizabeth and Cape Town by Messrs. Melvill 
and Ponsonby. It abounds near the sea margin at Sea Point, a suburb of Cape 
Town, and according to Mr. Swanton, swarms on Robben Island, where it is rapidly 
destroying all the herbage. It was found swarming close to the beach .at Green Point 
in 1905 by Mr. W. Denison Roebuck ; and according to Mr. A. Mayfield also oceurs 
at Hout’s Bay. 
Natal—Found by Dr. Longstaff at Durban. 
Fic. 450.—Helix pisana Miiller clustering upon its food plants on the burrows at Tenby 
(from photo. by Mr. Charles Jefferys). 
