﻿KENNARD 
  & 
  WOODWARD: 
  HYGIiOMIA 
  ODECA 
  IN 
  EXGLAND. 
  15 
  

  

  found 
  some 
  years 
  ago 
  in 
  Dickson's 
  Nursery 
  at 
  Belfast. 
  No 
  example 
  

   seen 
  since" 
  (Proc. 
  Roy. 
  Irish 
  Acad., 
  vol. 
  xxix, 
  sect. 
  13, 
  p. 
  134). 
  

   Whether 
  the 
  Middlesex 
  specimens 
  were 
  an 
  intentional 
  introduction, 
  

   or 
  an 
  accidental, 
  it 
  is 
  now 
  impossible 
  to 
  say, 
  but 
  the 
  Irish 
  record 
  

   certainly 
  falls 
  into 
  the 
  latter 
  category. 
  This, 
  however, 
  is 
  certain, 
  

   tbat 
  hitherto 
  tliere 
  has 
  been 
  no 
  certain 
  record 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  as 
  an 
  

   inhabitant 
  of 
  these 
  Islands. 
  

  

  In 
  July 
  of 
  this 
  year 
  one 
  of 
  us 
  (A. 
  S. 
  K.) 
  obtained 
  three 
  examples 
  of. 
  

   this 
  species 
  at 
  Coombe 
  in 
  Teignhead, 
  near 
  Teignmouth. 
  Subsequently 
  

   Mr. 
  C. 
  H. 
  Huggins 
  made 
  special 
  excursions 
  to 
  the 
  locality 
  and 
  traced 
  

   it 
  over 
  a 
  wide 
  area, 
  including 
  the 
  opposite 
  bank 
  of 
  the 
  Teign. 
  He 
  

   saw 
  over 
  100' 
  examples, 
  most 
  of 
  which, 
  however, 
  were 
  immature. 
  

   All 
  were 
  found 
  on 
  roadside 
  banks. 
  Speaking 
  broadly, 
  the 
  Devon 
  

   shells 
  are 
  decidedly 
  smaller 
  than 
  the 
  Continental 
  examples 
  we 
  have 
  

   seen, 
  being 
  9 
  x 
  12 
  mm., 
  whilst 
  Moquin-Tandon's 
  figures 
  for 
  this 
  

   species 
  are 
  12-14 
  X 
  12-17 
  mm., 
  but 
  Mr. 
  Hugh 
  Watson 
  informs 
  us 
  

   that 
  he 
  has 
  taken 
  examples 
  in 
  the 
  south-west 
  of 
  France 
  which 
  are 
  quite 
  

   as 
  small 
  as 
  our 
  shells. 
  In 
  colour, 
  too, 
  the 
  majority 
  of 
  the 
  Devon 
  

   shells 
  are 
  decidedly 
  darker 
  than 
  French 
  forms. 
  Judging 
  from 
  the 
  

   description, 
  our 
  shells 
  might 
  be 
  referred 
  to 
  var. 
  sarratma, 
  Moq.-Taiid., 
  

   but 
  J. 
  R. 
  Le 
  B. 
  Tomlin 
  has 
  kindly 
  lent 
  us 
  examples 
  of 
  this 
  form 
  

   collected 
  by 
  St. 
  Simon 
  (ex 
  Crosse 
  Coll.), 
  and 
  these 
  are 
  decidedly 
  

   paler 
  than 
  our 
  shells, 
  while 
  the 
  peripheral 
  band 
  is 
  more 
  pronounced. 
  

   This 
  last 
  character 
  is 
  ignored 
  in 
  the 
  original 
  description 
  (Hist. 
  Nat. 
  

   Moll. 
  France, 
  vol. 
  ii, 
  p. 
  194). 
  Possibly 
  the 
  soil 
  on 
  which 
  they 
  live 
  

   may 
  account 
  for 
  the 
  abnormal 
  coloration, 
  for 
  examples 
  of 
  Uygromia 
  

   striolata 
  (Pfr.) 
  from 
  the 
  same 
  locality 
  possess 
  a 
  similar 
  coloration. 
  

   Spanish 
  examples, 
  according 
  to 
  Bofill, 
  would 
  appear 
  to 
  be 
  similar 
  

   to 
  the 
  Devon 
  shells 
  (Moll. 
  Vail. 
  Rebas., 
  1884, 
  p. 
  12). 
  Several 
  

   examples 
  of 
  the 
  var. 
  albina, 
  Moq.-Tand., 
  were 
  also 
  obtained 
  by 
  

   Mr. 
  Huggins, 
  and 
  in 
  these 
  the 
  animal 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  the 
  shell 
  were 
  

   white. 
  As 
  in 
  the 
  case 
  of 
  Helicella 
  negleda 
  (Drap.) 
  it 
  is 
  interesting 
  

   to 
  note 
  that 
  the 
  district 
  is 
  famous 
  for 
  its 
  rarities 
  in 
  other 
  branches, 
  

   for 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  only 
  English 
  locality 
  for 
  the 
  Jersey 
  Tiger 
  Moth 
  {Calli- 
  

   morpha 
  quadripunctata, 
  Poda, 
  1761 
  = 
  hera, 
  Linne, 
  1767), 
  and 
  for 
  

   the 
  plant 
  Trichonema 
  columns. 
  

  

  