100 THE NAUTILUS. 



partner made a protest. The soil in itself was clean, but when plas- 

 tered all over with it we looked bad. It will always be worth a dollar 

 apiece to collect lamellidens and Fcrrissfi unless some higher grade 

 localities are discovered, Mr. Clapp has since written me that he hns 

 found lamellfdcns from New Hampshire. 



Poly. Clarki had climbed higher or dug deeper this year. Very 

 few were found, and those only by accident. Our largest was one of 

 18 mm. in width. In our opinion the dark coves at the base of the 

 mountains are the best collecting grounds. But as the recuperation 

 of health is the only excuse I have to get away from business partners. 

 I led the way to the mountain tops. At 6,000 feet it is cool and 

 bracing when hot below. It is also too high for mosquitoes and flies. 

 Polygyra Andrewsse, Omp. Andrew SK, Folygyra Riigcll, Circlnarin 

 concava and Gastro. acccra are the most active snails at all elevations. 

 Yltrinizonites latissimus is active upon the slopes near the mountain 

 tops. It is found in damp situations and there are two varieties, one 

 light horn color with a smooth, firm shell ; the other, known as the 

 grape skin variety for convenience, larger, nearly black, very thin 

 shelled and nearly always crumpled. Both social, but. usinlly col- 

 onized separately. 



The large white or light horn colored variety of Poll/. Andrewsee is 

 the most active variety of this species, and is to be found in the paths 

 among the leaves, upon the trunks of trees or old logs everywhere, 

 and it is very sociable. I found twenty-three around one stump. This 

 species bothered us. The large variety does not colonize with the 

 smaller. We found it 37 mm. wide and 25 in height. The smallert 

 smoky, typical variety, with a round aperture and about 22 mm. in 

 width, was found upon the top of Thunderhead. It was usually a, 

 rest under the moss of the trees or under the rocks, but it is nearly as 

 active as the larger variety. It has a banded variety. Upon Mirey 

 Ridge, upon the Tennessee slope, was a larger, banded form of about 

 27 mm. with a white variety. Here we found the dark, cherry-red 

 form of about 27 mm., with a white lip, resting in the moss upon old 

 logs or the lower corner of large rocks lying up from the ground. /Phe 

 animal was light colored also, and when it rolled out from under the 

 moss its shining red whorls and white lip glittered like a jewel, and 

 .Mr. Clapp never failed then to whoop like an Indian. The shell is 

 solitary in its habits and never found traveling. We only found two 

 at once upon the same stone. Upon the North Carolina side of the ridge 

 we found a form about the same size as the latter, which we called 



