tEARCE : VARIETIES Oi' BANDED SNAILS. 13^ 



(^J On very edge of cliff near Beachy Head, Sussex, 1888. 

 Berry Head, South Devonshire, 1888. Single individual at 

 Needles Point, Isle of Wight, 1887; o^ edge of cliff near Beacon 

 Hill Freshwater, (Mr. Ashford %^z Journal of Conchology.) On 

 sand-hills, near Berrovv church and in church-yard, Somerset- 

 shire, 1888. 



A few scattered gatherings made during August, 1888, in 

 the South of Devonshire, in localities which, as far as I could 

 see, are not sheep pastures : — viz.: amongst stones and herbage 

 on blown sand on the coast west of Paignton, also near 

 Babbicombe Bay : and the grass within the west Fort of Berry 

 Head, yielded no variety ornata at all, but twenty-seven 

 individuals of the mottled form. 



Putting all that we have written into tabular form we fintl 

 then, that the proportion in which the two varieties of Helix 

 caperata occur in sheep pastures is as under : — 



But in the places which have not been used as sheep 

 pastures, the numbers prove very different : — 



PLACE. VAR. ornata. mottled form. 



Burnham and Berrow sand-hills, ( ... i. ... dd. 



Oct., 1888 t ... 5. ... 85. 



Isle of Wight downs, Sept., 1887 ... 4. ... 14. 



South Devon localities, Aug, 1888 ... o. ... 27. 



Total ... lo. ... 192. 



ERRATUM. 

 On page 125 (No. 3, Vol. vi.), in the 13th line from top of 

 page: — "In tlie sand neighbourhood," should read "in 

 the same neighbourhood." 



