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large scales, many of them the size of half-a-cro\vn, and of a glisten- 

 ing silvery white, attracted attention at once. ROBERT SERVICE, 

 Maxwelltown, Dumfries. 



Land Shells at Balelone, N. Uist, Outer Hebrides. The follow- 

 ing species were noted in the above locality during the last days of 

 May and the first week of June 1905: Hyalinia alliana, Vitrina 

 pellucida, Helix aspersa, H. itala, H. acuta, H. pulihella, H. pygmaa, 

 Clausilia bidentata, Pupa cylindracea, Cochlicopa lubrica and var. 

 lubricoides, Succinea putris, Limncca peregrj, L. truncatula, Pisidium 

 pusillum. 



In the garden all the British representatives of the genus Arion, 

 viz. ater, intermedium, drcuntscriptus, hortensis, and subfuscus (i) 

 occurred, while Limax arborum and Agriolimax agrestis were 

 abundant. \AgrioUmax Iccvis was taken I believe in Scolpais marsh 

 but the note has gone amissing.] Some of the above were forwarded 

 to Mr. Taylor, who remarks re H. acuta : " The specimens embrace 

 the var. coalilis, a by no means common form, also specimens (though 

 not perfectly characteristic) of var. striga/is and articulatis. The 

 P. cylindracea are interesting, being the edentulous form, and like the 

 St. Kilda specimens recalling the Alpine form sempronii?'- -JAMES 

 WATERSON, Edinburgh. 



Land Shells in Orkney. Among land and fresh-water shells 

 collected in Orkney in August 1905 the following species specimens 

 of which I have submitted to Mr. Taylor may be mentioned : 



Hyalinia fulva, two at the School Loch, South Ronaldshay. 



Helix pygmcea, one at the Black Craig of Stromness. 



Balea perversa, common in Burwick Churchyard, South 



Ronaldshay. 



Carychium minimum, three at the Looms, Stromness. 

 Planorbis nautileus (already recorded from Orkney) in School 



Loch, and in Graemston Loch, both in South Ronaldshay. 

 Pisidium pusillum in South Ronaldshay lochs. Mr. Taylor refers 



the specimens to obtusalis. 



The species of slugs met with were Arion ater, A. subfuscus, A. 

 hortensis, A. cinumscnptus, Limax maximiis, L. marginatus, Agrio- 

 limax agrestis, and Ag. Icevis : all of these occurred in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of Stromness. ROBERT GODFREY, Edinburgh. 



Araehnida from the Orkneys. A small collection of Araneidea 

 and Phalangidea kindly made for me in the Orkneys by Mr. Robert 

 Godfrey of 46 Cumberland Street, Edinburgh, contained fourteen 

 species of the former and six species of the latter. One of the 

 Araneidea (true spiders), Tmeticus reprobus, Cambs., is rare and 

 local, but widely distributed ; the rest are of mostly abundant and 

 well-known species. The Phalahgeus (Harvestman) are also 



