HELICIGONA LAPICIDA. 407 
Var. convexa Baudon, Moll. Oise, 1862, p. 19. 
Helix lapicida var. pyramidata Pascal, Moll. Haute Loire, etc., 1873, p. 33. 
Helix lapicida var, pseudo-scalaria Locard, Mal. Lyon., 1877, p. 27. 
Helix lapicida var. elata Beaudouin, Mal. Chatillon-sur-Seine, 1888, p. 396. 
SHELL with a very convexly elevated spire. 
The var. convexa s.s., is described as possessing a dark shell, with a convex 
spire, and often a blunted keel. 
The sub-var. pyramidata is very convex above, resembling a flattened pyramid, 
somewhat convex beneath, and very strongly carinate. 
The sub-var. elata Beandouin is described as having a risen spire. 
The sub-var. pseudo-sealaria is described as much more risen in the spire than 
the type, and the colour olive-brown, with brown flammules. 
ENGLAND. 
Hereford— Messrs. Boycott & Bowell record distinctly subeonoid specimens from 
Aymestry, Dormington Quarries, and Backbury. 
CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
France—Var. convexa is rather abundant in shady places, under fallen leaves, 
and on the trunks of beech-trees, Forest of Hez, Oise (Baudon, l.c¢.). Sub-var. 
pyramidata is recorded by Pascal from about Puy, Hante Loire. Sub-var. e/ata 
from Chatillon-sur-Seine, Cote d’Or, by Beaudouin ; and sub-var. pseudo-scalaria 
from about Lyons by Locard. 
VARIATIONS IN SUBSTANCE OF SHELL. 
Var. subpellucida Baudon, Journ. de Conch., 1884, p. 252. 
SHELL small, thin and of a semitransparent horny colour, with few and scarcely 
visible darker flammules. 
ENGLAND. 
Devon N.—Lynmouth, Sept. 1907, W. H. Wood. Lynton, April 1908 ! A. H. 
Jowett-Murray. 
Hants. S.—Racton, Jan. 1898, C. E. Wright. 
Kent E.— Ewell Wood, Dover, June 1895 ! Lionel E. Adams. 
CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
Germany—Sandberger records very thin shelled specimens from the Black Forest 
and from the Spessart in Franconia. 
France—Rare, Forest of Hez, Oise (Baudon, l.c.). Rare about Salins, Cote d’Or 
(Wattebled, Journ. de Conch., 1889, p. 317). 
VARIATIONS IN SIZE OF SHELL. 
Var. major Pfeiffer, Mon. Hel. Viv., 1848, 1., p. 371. 
SHELL larger, and sharply keeled. 
The var. major s.s. isdesecribed as diam. maj. 21 mill., min. 183 mill. ; alt. 8 mill. ; 
that of Pascal as 22 mill. in diam:, and 7 mill. in alt.; and Westerlund’s as 20 mill. 
in diam., and 9 mill. in alt. 
CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
France—Common throughout the Haute Loire, according to Paseal. 
Var. minor Moquin-T'andon, Hist. Moll. France, 1855, i1., p. 138. 
SHELL smaller. Diam. 12 mill. ; alt. 7 mill. 
The var. minor of Pascal is described as 135 mill. in diam., 
and 6 mill. in alt. ; that of Westerlund as 12 mill. in diam., 
and 5-6 mill. in alt.; and Borecherding gives 11-13 mill. in 
diam., and 5 mill. in alt. Fic. 465.— 
ENGLAND. H. lapicida var. minor 
s* Ie ste We "ee 
Hants. N.—Preston Candover, 1884, Rey. H. P. Fitzgerald. eee i ‘conde 
Worcester—Cleeve Prior, 1886 ! B. M. Oakeshott. 
Surrey —Commonon a wall, Downside, Epsom (J. E. Daniel, Se. Goss., 1879). 
Haslemere, C. Pannell, Moll. Haslemere, 1903. 
Somerset N.—Weston-super-Mare ! specimens in the British Museum. 
Derby—Common at Allport (C. Clare Fryer, Se. Goss., Noy. 1890, p. 242). 
