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abundance of tliis species in a field at Torkington a few 

 months ago occasioned the report that it had rained 

 snails." 



H. caperata, Montagu. Common on dry hüls and a 

 calcareous soil, throughout the county. 



H. ericetorum, Müller. Somewhat local. Abuudant on 

 the sides of the trenches at Cadbury Camp, and of the 

 Mendips near Wells. Also on Durdham Down, Wrington 

 Hill, and other localities. 



H. lapicida, Linnteus. Common, but confined apparently 

 to the limestone rocks. Near Wells ; Cheddar, Wrington, 

 Clevedon, and Elton Hills ; Cadbury Hill, Yatton ; Cleeve 

 Toot ; St. Vincent^s Rocks ; Axbridge, &c. 



H. rufescens, Penn an t. Common. Varies according to 

 habltat. Those among brambles and in hedges are mostly 

 large and horn-coloured ; while specimens from drier situa- 

 tions are smaller, deeper in colour, and more elevated in 

 the spire. 



Var. albida, Gray, is found in profusion among a heap of 

 stones lying by an old lime-kiln near Clevedon. 



H. Jdspida, Linnteus. Abundant in gardens and hedge- 

 banks, and among heaps of stones and nettles, varying in 

 colour from white to deep chocolate brown. 

 Var. concinna, Jeffreys. In gardens at Yatton and 

 Clevedon, in Walton old churchyard, and at Wrington. — 

 A. M. N. Clifton.— Mr. W. Webster. 

 Var. depilata, Alder, Rare on Cadbury Hill, Yatton, and 

 Ebbor Rocks, near Wells. 



//. sericea, Draparnaud. We have met with two or 

 three worn examples among the rejectamenta of the River 

 Avon, below the Hotwells. 



//. aculeata, Müller. We have taken this species 

 under the bark of a fallen tree in Brockley Coombe ; 



