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Var. flavescens Moquin-T'andon, Hist. Moll. France, 1855, ii., p. 138. 
SHELL pale yellowish, without markings. 
CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
France—Reported by Moquin-Tandon from near Rodez, Aveyron ; and by Locard 
from Vassieux near Lyons, Rhone. : ; 
Var. rufa Germain, Moll. Maine et Loire, 1903, p. 113. 
SHELL of an uniform ferruginous-red, without brown maculations or markings 
the two earliest whorls lactescent. ay 
CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
France—Rare about Angers, Maine et Loire (Germain, l.c.). 
Var. nigrescens 'T'aylor, Journ. of Conch., 1883, vol. iv., p. 83. 
SHELL of an uniform, very dark, brownish-black, with a paler apex, and a white 
peristome. 
ENGLAND AND WALES. 
Somerset S.—On walls, Ham Hill, Yeovil, Aug. 1909! J. H. Ponsonby. 
Somerset N.—Abundant about Rimpton, E. W. Swanton. 
Surrey— Haslemere, C, Pannell. 
Herts.—Tring, July 1910 ! C. Oldham. 
Norfolk E.—Framingham Earl, Rev. 8. Spencer Pearce. 
Northampton—A large colony on limestone wall, Oundle, July 1906; also at 
Markholm, April 1903; and Giddington, Jan. 1904, C. E. Wright. 
Gloucester W.—Westbury near Bristol, Aug. 1883 ! Miss F. M. Hele. 
Derby—A large colony, very dark in colour and of large size at Ambergate 
(T. Hey, Journ. of Conch., 1889, p. 121). 
York N.E.—Hawnby Hill, Ryedale, Aug. 1889 ! W. Denison Roebuck. 
York Mid W.—Malham, June 1883! W. West. Skipton, J. R. le B. Tomlin. 
Abundant at Grass High Wood, Grassington, Sept. 1906 ! F. Booth. 
York N.W.-—West Burton, near Aysgarth, Aug. 1911 ! E. Collier. 
CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
Germany—On trees, Neckar-Steinach, Baden, Aug. 1910! Dr. E. O. Croft; and 
Wachwitz, Saxony, 1904, F. H. Sikes. 
VARIATIONS [IN MARKINGS OF SHELL 
Var. faseciata 'l'aylor, var. nov. 
SHELL showing darker spiral banding. 
The sub-var. tetrafaseiata has three bands above 
the periphery and one below. 
The sub-var. trifaseiata shews two bands above the 
periphery and one below. ; 
The sub-var. bifaseiata shews two bands, one above Fic. 466.—H. /apicida sub- 
and one below the periphery. var. infrafasciata Taylor. 
The sub-var. unifaseiata has a single band, above Wells, Somerset. 
. Rev. S. Spencer Pearce. 
the periphery. 
The sub-var. infrafaseciata has only a single band, which is below the periphery. 
ENGLAND. 
Somerset S.—Sub-var. infrafasciata, Wells ! Rev. 8. Spencer Pearce. 
Somerset N.—Sub-var. infrafasciata, Leigh Woods, 1878 ! Miss F. M. Hele. 
Derby —Mr. C. Clare Fryer records single banded shells from Allport; some 
were suprafasciate (sub-var. wnifasciata) the band occupying a position above the 
periphery corresponding to that of band 3 in Helix nemoralis, ete. , while in others 
(sub-var. infrafasciata) the band oceupied the position of band 4 below it. 
CONTINENTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
Germany—Dr. O. Boettger has recorded thin shelled specimens shewing four 
bands (sub-var. tetrafasciata) from Zeitlotis in Wilden Weinstein, Lower Franconia; 
Herr Clessin describes the shell in Germany as ordinarily possessing three feebly 
developed bands (sub-var. ¢rifasciata) and Merkel agrees that this is the normal 
form in Silesia. The sub-var. infrafasciata on beech trees, by Uklei See, Holstein, 
July 1888 ! 
France—The sub-var. bifasciata with bands occupying the position of the 3rd and 
4th bands in the pentatzeniate formula, found at Bordeaux, Gironde, by Dr. Scharff. 
