JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



HELIX PULCHELLA and H. CELL ARIA of Muller, 



FOUND IN AUSTRALIA; 



WITH NOTES ON THEIR DISTRIBUTION. 



By J. BRAZIER, C.M.Z.S., &c., &c. 



Helix pulchella Miiller. Verm, ii., p. 30, N. 232. 



H. Alexandra. Cox. Catalogue of Australian Land Shells, 1864, 

 p. 35; Monograph Austral. Land Shells, 1868, p. 61, pi. vi., 

 fig. I. 



Habitat — Petersham: Marrickville; Glebe; Craigend; Darling 

 Point, near Sydney, New South Wales. 



The specimens collected at Petersham were found under old 

 brick heaps, at the other localities under old mats, bags, boots and 

 other rubbish collected about gardens. 



At Norfolk Island, the first place where I collected it, it was in the 

 old gaol yard, of that once notorious island, found under the head 

 of an old cask; a few days after in a heavy rain I procured a large 

 quantity under partly decayed cornstalks in the garden of Mr. 

 Arthur Quintal; a few I obtained on my way across from Sydney 

 Bay to the Cascades, under a decayed log; it is also found in 

 various parts of Tasmania, and recently at Chatsworth, New South 

 Wales, under decayed garden rubbish. If this well-known Euro- 

 pean species is mixed up with the Australian, Tasmanian, and 

 Norfolk Island specimens there is not the least difference between 

 them, I have taken specimens from various localities and arranged 

 them on glass with the aperture to the eye; both the aperture and 

 the umbilicus are the same. The question is easily answered — 

 How did they get to AustraUa, Tasmania and Norfolk Island? By 

 being brought in boxes with plants from Europe. European plants 

 were introduced into Norfolk Island, Tasmania and New South 

 Wales. Found in almost every little garden. 



