l6o ASHFORD : LIST OF CHRISTCHURCH MOLLUSCA. 



Z. excavatus. — Numerous where it occurs, but very local. 

 Chuton Glen, Hengistbury Head, Boscombe, Hoborne, 

 and [in Wootton Enclosure, Holmsley], in all which places 

 the type only has been found ; in a small copse at Roe- 

 shot Hill, near Christchurch, it occurs with a transparent 

 light yellow shell to the exclusion of the type. 



Z. crystallinus. — Occasionally in damp meadows. Christ- 

 church, Tuckton, Somerford, [Holmsley]. 



Z. fulvus. — Sparsely at Christchurch, Hengistbury, Tuckton, 

 Chuton Glen, [Cadnam (J.H.A.), Holmsley]. 



Helix aculeata. — Two specimens at bottom ofahedge, Somer- 

 ford. 



H. aspersa. — In and around every village in the district, also 

 at [Ringwood, Holmsley, Beaulieu]. In one garden at 

 Christchurch, 1591 killed in four nights. A dozen or more 

 observed stationed in the daytime on the upper branches 

 of a Genista in the public gardens of Bournemouth, (cf a 

 similar statement by Mr. Hopkinson, in Trans. Nat. Hist. 

 See, Herts.) 



Variations. — Undulata Christchurch, [Holmsley, 

 Beaulieu]; zonata [Beaulieu], one; a dwarf form, 22 mm., 

 on the coast at Mudeford ; a reversed shell, Christchurch. 



H. nemoralis.- — A considerable colony occupies the east side 

 of the hill terminating in Hengistbury Head, traceable thence 

 along the inner base of the sandhills to Mudeford, where, 

 in one hedge, it overlaps for about 20 yards the quarters of 

 H. hortetisis. Isolated examples in gardens, Christchurch 

 and Bournemouth ; at [Holmsley and Bolderwood]. Ground 

 colour confined to pure yellow and light-rufous salmon, 

 with intermediate shades, the banding, with rare excep- 

 tions, being 00000 and 00300 ; one shell 003(45). 



H. hortensis. — Christchurch, widely spread over sandy banks 

 and hedge-rows near the town ; also at Mudeford, Water- 

 ditch, Burton, Bournemouth, [Fordingbridge (H. Richard- 

 son)]. 



J.C, v., Jan., 1887. 



