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2. List of Species with Disteibution. 



GASTROPODA. 



TESTACELLIDAE. 



Testacella maugei Ferussac. 



WD ED LD AN 



FE TY AR DO 

 WMSL LE MO 



EM RO CV LH 

 WGNG LF WHME 

 SG EC ED DU 

 CL NT QC CW WI 

 NE LE ST KK wx 

 SE MCEC WA 

 wc 



From their common habit of living 

 in gardens, rather than in the open 

 country, none of the three species of 

 this genus is likely to be met with 

 during an ordinary natural history 

 ramble. It is perhaps for this reason, 

 rather than scarcity, that "we have so 

 few records of these interesting slugs. 

 But, although their presence in several 

 of the southern divisions has in all 

 probability been passed over, it seems 

 unlikely that their range in Ireland will . 

 be much widened by future work, for 

 they appear to belong to a group of 

 animals which has entered this country 

 from the south or south-east ; some of 

 them never having spread beyond the 

 southern and eastern counties. The 

 distribution of our three species of 

 Testacella and that of Hyalmia lucida 

 is very similar, and should a report of 

 " a slug with a shell on its tail," 

 received by Mr. Phillips from a gardener 



in Clare, prove trustworthy, their dis- 

 tributions will in this country be almost 

 identical. 



Testacella haliotidea Draparnaud. 



WD ED LD AN 



FE TY AR DO 

 WMSL LE MO 



EM RO CV LH 



WG NG LF WH ME 



SG EC ED DU 



CL NT QC CW WI 



NK LE ST EE WX 



SK MC EC WA 

 WC 



Has a southern and eastern range, 

 and its distribution is similar to that of 

 the other two species of the genus. The 

 record from Strabane in Tyrone,' I regard 

 for the present as due to an introduction, 

 though future investigation may prove 

 the species to be a native there. 



Testacella scutulum Sowerby. 



Has a distribution similar to the two 

 preceding species. All three inhabit 

 gardens, and the neighbourhood of towns, 

 and are seldom, if ever, found in the open 

 country in Ireland. Although living 

 under suspicious circumstances, and 

 often appearing to have been naturalized, 

 their distribution, I thiuk, proves them 

 to be native. Messrs. Taylor and 

 Roebuck, when recording T. maugei var. 



' Scharfif, Irish Niitiiralist, p. 163, 190S. 



