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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  MALACOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  

  

  Tasmania 
  and 
  the 
  adjacent 
  Islands 
  " 
  : 
  Proc. 
  Key. 
  Soc. 
  Tasmania, 
  

   1877, 
  pp. 
  26-57) 
  records 
  it 
  as 
  "rather 
  rare", 
  li. 
  Tate, 
  describing 
  

   Z. 
  frcecursoria 
  from 
  the 
  Older 
  Tertiary 
  of 
  Muddy 
  Creek 
  (Goulburu 
  

   Eiver, 
  Victoria), 
  remarks 
  that 
  " 
  the 
  discovery 
  of 
  a 
  fossil 
  species 
  

   of 
  Zemira 
  is 
  of 
  interest 
  from 
  the 
  circumstance 
  that 
  the 
  genus 
  has 
  

   hitherto 
  been 
  known 
  by 
  one 
  species 
  {Z. 
  australis, 
  Sowb.), 
  inhabiting 
  

   the 
  temperate 
  seas 
  of 
  Eastern 
  Australia" 
  (Trans. 
  Hoy. 
  Soc. 
  South 
  

   Australia, 
  vol. 
  x, 
  1888, 
  p. 
  163, 
  pi. 
  xi, 
  fig. 
  5). 
  

  

  ON 
  THE 
  OCCUEEENCE 
  IN 
  ENGLAND 
  OF 
  HYGROMIA 
  ODECA 
  

   (LOCAED)' 
  [ 
  = 
  HELIX 
  LIMBATA, 
  DEAP., 
  1804, 
  NON 
  DA 
  COSTA, 
  

   1778]. 
  

  

  By 
  A. 
  S. 
  Kknnakd, 
  F.G.S., 
  and 
  B. 
  B. 
  Woodward, 
  F.L.S., 
  etc. 
  

  

  Bead 
  9th 
  November, 
  1917. 
  

  

  The 
  Helix 
  Ihnbata 
  of 
  Draparnaud 
  was 
  first 
  recorded 
  as 
  a 
  British 
  

   species 
  in 
  1837 
  by 
  J. 
  Alder, 
  who 
  stated 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  "found 
  in 
  the 
  

   neighbourliood 
  of 
  London 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Gr. 
  B. 
  Sowerby, 
  from 
  whom 
  I 
  have 
  

   specimens" 
  (Mag. 
  Zool. 
  & 
  Bot., 
  vol. 
  ii, 
  p. 
  106). 
  In 
  1840 
  Dr. 
  J. 
  E. 
  

   Gray 
  noted 
  that 
  it 
  "lives 
  in 
  the 
  liedges 
  near 
  London, 
  on 
  the 
  New 
  

   North 
  Boad 
  to 
  Barnet, 
  near 
  Hampstead, 
  on 
  brambles 
  (G. 
  B. 
  Sowerby). 
  

   Native 
  of 
  the 
  S. 
  of 
  France, 
  whence 
  perhaps 
  it 
  was 
  introduced" 
  

   (Turton's 
  Manual, 
  2nd 
  ed., 
  pp. 
  143-4). 
  Tliis 
  statement 
  was 
  copied, 
  

   though 
  not 
  literallv, 
  by 
  Captain 
  T. 
  Brown 
  in 
  1844 
  (Illust. 
  Recent. 
  

   Conch. 
  Gt. 
  Britain 
  and 
  Ireland, 
  p. 
  46). 
  In 
  1857 
  Dr. 
  J. 
  E. 
  Gray 
  

   published 
  a 
  very 
  different 
  version, 
  for 
  he 
  states 
  that 
  "a 
  few 
  living 
  

   specimens 
  were 
  set 
  free 
  on 
  the 
  New 
  North 
  Koad, 
  near 
  Hampstead, 
  

   by 
  Mr. 
  G. 
  B. 
  Sowerby, 
  but 
  they 
  did 
  not 
  propagate 
  themselves 
  " 
  

   (turton's 
  Manual, 
  3rd 
  ed., 
  pp. 
  293-4). 
  In 
  1863 
  J. 
  Gwyn 
  Jeffreys 
  

   noted 
  that 
  ^' 
  JI. 
  limbata 
  has 
  been 
  introduced 
  into 
  the 
  list 
  of 
  our 
  

   moUusca 
  on 
  the 
  authority 
  of 
  the 
  late 
  Mr. 
  G. 
  B. 
  Sowerby 
  in 
  

   consequence 
  of 
  several 
  specimens 
  having 
  been 
  once 
  found 
  on 
  hedges 
  

   near 
  Hampstead 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  Possibly 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  rediscovered 
  in 
  this 
  

   country 
  and 
  have 
  its 
  claim 
  to 
  admission 
  as 
  a 
  British 
  species 
  

   recognized" 
  (Brit. 
  Conch., 
  vol. 
  i, 
  p. 
  192). 
  In 
  the 
  same 
  year 
  

   L. 
  Heeve 
  stated 
  " 
  In 
  my 
  monograph 
  of 
  Helix 
  in 
  Conch. 
  Iconica 
  

   (pi. 
  clxii, 
  fig. 
  1079) 
  I 
  figured 
  II, 
  limbata, 
  Drap., 
  as 
  a 
  British 
  species, 
  

   on 
  tlie 
  strength 
  of 
  the 
  discovery 
  of 
  some 
  specimens 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Sowerby, 
  

   in 
  the 
  neighbourliood 
  of 
  Hampstead. 
  Its 
  claim 
  to 
  a 
  place 
  in 
  our 
  

   fauna 
  has 
  not, 
  however, 
  been 
  confirmed 
  by 
  subsequent 
  collectors" 
  

   (L. 
  & 
  F. 
  W. 
  Mollusks 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Isles, 
  p, 
  67). 
  Subsequent 
  

   writers 
  (including 
  Mr. 
  G. 
  B. 
  Sowerby, 
  third 
  of 
  the 
  name, 
  in 
  his 
  

   "Index 
  Brit. 
  Shells", 
  1887) 
  have 
  ignored 
  this 
  species 
  as 
  a 
  British 
  

   form, 
  but 
  in 
  191 
  1 
  A. 
  W. 
  Stelfox 
  recorded 
  "a 
  single 
  living 
  specimen, 
  

  

  ^ 
  Prodrome 
  Malac. 
  Frang., 
  1882, 
  p. 
  314 
  (or, 
  Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Agric. 
  Lyon, 
  ser. 
  V, 
  

   torn, 
  iv, 
  1882, 
  p. 
  588), 
  as 
  of 
  Bourguignat. 
  

  

  