cox: OCCURRENCE Of H. ELEGANS AT DOVER. 3)9 



of the dead shells have a hole (pecked?) in the base — the part 

 that presents itself to the attack of birds. 



Helix elegans is a common species on the shores of the 

 Mediterranean, especially in the south of France and Corsica. 



I hope that Mr. Edgar Smith will kindly follow with some 

 notes on the more northern and western discoveries of the 

 species. 



19, East Clip'f, Dover, 

 December gth, i8go. 



Besides the south of France, this species has been quoted 

 from various localities in Spain, the Balearic Islands, Algeria, 

 Italy, and Sicily, but it does not appear to range northward. 

 This is not the first record of it as British, for Jeffreys (Brit. 

 Conch , I., p. 215) mentions the existence of a specimen in Dr. 

 Turton's collection of British shells, marked ' Cornwall,' and 

 although he questioned its claim to be considered British, he 

 observed that " it is remarkable that this characteristic species, 

 which had been so long considered as peculiar to the shores of 

 the Mediterranean, has been lately found by M. I'Abbe Maillard 

 at Beauvais in the north of France. 



A colony of this species was discovered in 1875 (Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1876, p. 127) in St. Peter's (Episcopal) 

 Churchyard, Logan Street, Charleston, South Carolina. Mr. 

 Mazyck, who gave the account of finding the specimens, was of 

 opinion that the species had "probably existed in small numbers 

 for several years in this very restricted locality." 



As in the case of the British specimens, I presume they 

 owed their presence in the churchyard to human agency, for 

 there appears to be no other rational explanation. It is also 

 quite probable that the specimens found at Beauvais were also 

 introduced. — E. A. Smith. 



