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408 HELICIGONA LAPICIDA. 
a CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
Germany—Recorded from near Lippe-Detmold by Borcherding ; and by Gysser 
from Belehen, and the Renchthal near Freiburg, Baden. 
Belgium—Villers, Brabant, E. van den Broeck. 
France—Common throughout Haute Loire according to Pascal; Moquin-Tandon 
records it from Rodez, Aveyron, and Toulouse, Haute Garonne; Locard as rather 
rare on the mountains of Parves in Bugey, and the woods above Hauteville, Ain; 
M. Bouillet from the Mont Dore district, Puy-de-Dome; and Dr. Daniel from Jetée- 
de-Camaret, Finistére. Preste, Pyrénées Orientales ! G. K. Gude. 
Norway —Asker near Christiania, and Bamble near Langesund, Miss Esmark. 
Switzerland—B. M. Oakeshott. 
VARIATIONS IN COLOUR OF SHELL. 
Var. albina Menke, Syn. Moll., 1830, p. 24. 
Helicigona (Chilotrema) lapicida var. alba Steenberg, Landsnegle, 1911, p. 102. 
SHELL uniformly whitish, with a greenish or yellowish tinge. 
This beautiful variety, unrecorded in this country in 1862, is now of frequent 
oceurrence ; and when immature is the Helix albella of Linne; the H. albella of Dr. 
Fleming, which was based upon a dead shell picked up on the shore at St. Andrew’s, 
Fifeshire, was considered by Dr. Jeffreys as identical with that of Linne. 
ENGLAND. 
Devon S.—On walls, Culverhole, Aug. 1882, Lionel E. Adams. 
Devon N.— Valley of East Lyn near Lynmouth, 1865! W. Whitwell. Messrs. 
Beeston and Wright give the proportion of the white variety to the typical form in 
this locality at about 34 per cent. Lynton, April 1908 ! A. H. Jowett-Murray. 
Somerset N. —On a loose, ivy-covered stone wall, on the old Bristol road, just 
outside the city of Wells, May 1887 ! Rev. 8. Spencer Pearce. One specimen found 
near Leigh Court, Miss F. M. Hele. H 
Hants. N.— Preston Candover, 1884! Rev. H. P. Fitzgerald. 
Hants. S.—Christchureh, June 1896; and Racton, Jan. 1898 ! C. E. Wright. 
Sussex W.— Light greenish-white specimens, Lavant, May 1904, Rev W.A.Shaw. 
Middlesex—Found fairly commonly about sixty years ago on a rough wall in the 
Zoological Gardens, Regent’s Park, by Mr. R. D. Darbishire. 
Surrey —Reigate, G. 8. and E. Saunders. Haslemere (C. Pannell, 1.c.). 
Kent E.—On a bireh trunk, Ewell, near Dover, Lionel E. Adams. 
Lincoln S.—Not uncommon on a stone wall of Great Oolitic limestone at Carlby 
near Bourne ! first found there by Mr. T. Stow in July 1904. 
Northampton—Brackley, A. Loydell. 
Gloucester E.—Cranham, F. Taylor. 
Derby —A colony at Matlock, Aug. 1879, T. Glover ; and found in that district 
by many other collectors. Several in Dovedale, A. H. Jowett-Murray. Old walls 
on hill-side to the north of Monsal Dale Station, R. D. Darbishire. 
York S.W.—Mr. J. Hebden, of Sandal near Wakefield, first found this variety 
in England at Went Vale near Pontefract. 
York Mid W.—Grimbalds Crag, Knaresborough (J. Blackburn, Nat., 1866, p. 98). 
Durham—Durham, Mrs. Fitzgerald. 
CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
Germany—Recorded from Malsburg, N. Westphalia by Dr. Carl Pfeiffer; from 
Falkenburg, Hanover; and Bentheim, Osnabruck by Borecberding ; from Hohen- 
Wittlingen, Wurtemburg by Dr. Weinland ; from Carlsruhe, Baden by Gysser ; 
from Rodding, Schleswig by Sehlesch ; from Fulda by Dr. Speyer; from Burg, 
Nassau by Dr. Koch; and from the Lower Harz by Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys, ete. 
Belgium—Recorded from Hastiere in Namur by Van den Broeck. 
France—Recorded from Chatillon-sur-Seine, Cote d@Or, by Beaudouin; from 
Preste, Pyrénées Orientales, by Massot and Dupuy; from environs of Puy, Haute 
Loire, by Pascal ; from Orange, Vaucluse, and Draguignan, Vosges, by Moquin- 
Tandon ; from the Cauterets, Hautes Pyrénées, by Dupuy ; from St. Laurent, Ain, 
by J. R. le B. Tomlin ; from Bourg-d’Oisans, Chartreuse, ete., Isére, by Dr. Albin 
Gras; from Alsace by Herr Meyer ; from Savoy at Saléve and abundantly at St. 
Gervais les Bains by Dr. Brot; and the Valley of the Dranse by Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys. 
Switzerland—Recorded by Charpentier from Lausanne, and from between St. 
Maurice and Bex in Canton Vaud; from Berne at Iseltwald in 1868 by M. Roftiaen; 
from Spiez by Hugh Watson ; and from Stein-on-Rhine, Schaffhausen, by Tomlin. 
Spain—Recorded from Catalonia at Montserrat by Zulueta; and from the Valley 
of the Segre by Nicolai. 
Denmark—M. Steenberg cites this variety as found in Denmark. 
