lOO TAYLOR : LIFE HISTORY OF HELIX ASPERSA. 



destroyed, being covered by a flourishing street of small shops. 

 I am indebted to her great kindness for specimens from the 

 locality. Westbury-on-Trym, near Bristol (Cundall). Stroud 

 (Elliott). Cheltenham (Simpson). Dorking, Surrey; and 

 Staffordshire (C. Ashford). In Kent, Miss Fairbrass finds it 

 near Faversham, Mrs. Fitzgerald on the chalk-hills, Folkestone, 

 and Mr.T. D. A. Cockerell writes that he has recently found it 

 somewhat commonly in one place near Dartford. Mr. Bridgman 

 has found it under hornbeam hedges near Norwich, and Rev. 

 J. McMurtrie has found them, but only rarely, on hawthorn 

 hedges and nettles near the sea at Cromer, Norfolk. Two 

 specimens have also been found by Mr. Blatch near Cam- 

 bridge. Half-a-dozen specimens on a hedge-bank at the foot 

 of Watlington Hill, Oxfordshire (Norman). 



In Scotland Dr. F. Buchanan White says that it " occurs 

 on the sea-coast." 



In Ireland Miss Amy Warren records it from the ruined 

 walls of Moyne Abbey, Killala, co. Mayo. 



M. Gassies records it from the Agenais as var. luteola, 

 and Moquin-Tandon gives Bastia and Sartene as localities. 



Miss F. M. Hele writes me "I have easily hre6.II. aspena, 

 but variety exalbida degenerates into a shell covered with a dirty 

 browny-yellow epidermis, instead of the exquisitely delicate 

 lemon hue found on them in their wild state; I have thought that 

 feeding them on lettuce may produce this change of coloring, as 

 the more lettuce I gave mine the darker and dingier the 

 epidermis became." 



Monst. sinistrorsum Taylor. Shell reversed. 



One on Redcar Sandhills, Yorkshire (Rev. W. C. Hey) ; 

 Goole, Yorkshire (G. H. Parke) ; one at Christchurch, Hants., 

 during present year (C. Ashford); garden at Notting Hill, 

 London (H. Adams); three specimens near Epsom, one at 

 Little Brookham, and one at Uppingham, Rutland (Daniel) ; 

 Dartford (Dr. Latham) 



J.C, iv., Oct., 1883. 



