TESTACELLA MAUGEI. 



2o 



Var. aurea Taylor. 



Body and foot briglit yellow, besprinkled with black dots, chieHy on back. 

 Gloucester W.— Gardens, Cotliani near Bristol, 1883 ! Miss ¥. S\. Hele. 

 Glamorgan— Uardiir, F. W. Wotton, Jan. 1889. 



Var. nigra Collinge, Journ. of Concli., 1898, p. 95. 



Pembrokeshire— Tenby, 1892 (Mus. Zool. Cambridge University). 



Geographical Distribution.— 7". maugd is distinctly and pre-emin- 

 ently a western and retreating species, now restricted to the western coast 

 regions of Europe, Africa and adjacent islands of the Paltearctic region, 

 although it may still linger in a few isolated places comparatively remote 

 from the geographical area chietiy occupied at the present day. It has 

 been recorded from the British Isles, France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, 

 Azores, Canaries, and Madeira. 



It has also been reported from greenhouses in Philadelphia, U.S.A., in the 

 A'^earctic region ; as 2\ aurigaster from the Cape, in the Ethiopian region ; 

 and as T. vagans from Auckland, New Zealand, in the Australasian region. 



In the British Isles it is also strictly south-western in its range, and has 

 been recorded from various localities in the South and West of England, 

 South Wales and the South of Ireland. 



Geographical Distribution 



Testacella maugei Fer 



Recorded Distribution. 

 Probable Range. 



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Fig. 11. 



ENGLAND AND WALES. 

 Channel Isles— Bank at foot of garden wall, St. Saviour's road, St. Heller's, Jersey, 

 and in a garden about lialf-a-mile distant (Bull, Soi. Goss., July 1878, p. 161). 



^ PENINSULA. 



Cornwall W.— Pliillack rectory grounds, 1878 ! Miss Hockin. Common, Paul 

 Church Town, near Penzance, Alay 1886 ! W. E. Baily. Falmouth, Sept. 1887 ! J. H. 

 James. Triiro, Aug. 1888 ! J. H. James. Treherne Probus, near Truro, Capt. 

 Pinwell (Weld), J. of Mai., July 1897, p. 26). 



Devon S.— Garden, Park street, Exeter (J. C. Bellamy, Nat. Hist. S. Devon, 

 1839, p. 246). Veitch's Nursery, Exeter (E. Parfitt, Nat., 1834, p. 150). Plymouth 

 (Jetfr., Brit. Conch., 1862, i., p. 147). 



