40 THE NAUTILUS. 



from Madeira. They are only 11 rum. diameter, but Azores 

 specimens in the Norman collection are 14 mm. The species 

 seems to me to be the European V. lucida. Probably the 

 Cuming specimens did not come from the Madeira group, as 

 the Cumingian localities are very unreliable. I found in the 

 Cuming collection five other Helicoids labeled as from Ma- 

 deira, but all known from quite other places and, with one 

 exception, very distinct from anything in the Madeiran fauna. 

 The exception is Pyramidula retexta Shuttl., a Canarian shell 

 resembling P. semiplicata (Pfr.) in appearance, but brown 

 all over, not mottled. It must be a rare species, as Wollaston 

 had not seen a specimen. 



In the Norman collection is a subfossil Helix nstulata Lowe, 

 said to be from Madeira (Rev. B. Watson). It is genuine 

 ustulata, but is from the Salvages, as shown by the rest of 

 Watson 's series in the possession of Mr. Tomlin. 



Punctwm pygmcsum and Vitrea- crystallina have been re- 

 corded as fossil in the Pleistocene beds at Canical, Madeira, 

 on the authority of Boog Watson. Mr. J. R. LeB. Tomlin has 

 Watson's specimens, and was so kind as to lend them to me 

 for examination. Both species appear to be correctly named, 

 though the V. crystallina is a single very immature shell. I 

 do not believe, however, that they are fossil. Such shells are 

 easily carried by the wind over the sand hills, and thus mixed 

 with the fossils. No other collectors have been able to find 

 these species in the Canical beds. 



MOLLUSC A OF PISGAH FOREST, NORTH CAROLINA. 



BY MINA L. WINSLOW. 



The material on which the following list is based was col- 

 lected for the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 

 during a part of the months of July and August, 1916. The 

 Pisgah Forest region was approached by rail from Asheville 

 to Brevard, thence by wagon to Pisgah Forest station, and 

 by log railroad about seventeen miles northwest along the 



