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half and half" for couveuience. The lower half of the body whorl 

 was light colored, the upper dark. 



Upon Clingman the habits seem to change. The mountain is cov- 

 ered with balsam and the moss is very deep, and as this mountain is 

 the highest of the group the clouds hang about the peak continually. 

 Here the red Andrewsse was active, sometimes in the grass, which 

 grows as high as one's head, and sometimes two or more were upon the 

 roof of large rucks, in company with a light colored form and Ferrissii. 

 Hut only one Fcrrissif was found under a rock at a time, and the last 

 whorl was much larger than those upon Mirey Ridge. 



The next trip T went alone with some deer hunters about forty 

 miles to the south into the Unaka range. Tarrying at the Little Ten- 

 nessee I found Poly . pustuloides Bid., Gastro. signrficans and a beauti- 

 ful form of depressed Omphnlina Ixcigata. In color the latter had 

 that peculiar blue of the Campelomas, and it was 25 mm. in width. 1 

 also found Unio regular is. Lea, in the river, and of ferns I found the 

 inclsum form of Asplenium trichomanes heretofore found only in San 

 Diego, Cal., and Vermont. 



Upon the deer hunt we left our tent, coats and blankets behind and 

 carried cooking utensils, corn meal and bacon upon our own backs. We 

 slept under sheds large enough for a tire made of hemlock bark on the 

 spot. The fire was needed every night. We slept on bark, good bark. 

 Alone and so far away, among bears, rattlesnakes and strangers, I felt 

 timid and did not get many snails, but I know it will be good ground 

 for next year. The snail hulls, as they cail them in Tennessee, were 

 very large. One of niy Chilhoweemis measured 40 mm.; a Poly. An- 

 tirewsze, 39 ; Wheatleyi, 24 ; Palliata and an Omphalind subplana, 

 25 each. I also found the rose-colored variety of albolabris upon the 

 hillsides, colored through and through and shining like a piece of 

 china. It measured about 20 mm. 



When Mr. Pilsbry's report comes in I may send THE NAUTILUS a 

 list of the snails found upon the Smokies by Mrs. Andrews, Mr. Clapp 



and myself. 







NEW AMERICAN LAND SHELLS. 



BY H. A. PILSBRY. 



Vt'ti-ca rhoadsi, n. sp. Simijar to V.mdentata, but differing from that 

 species in the distinct umbilicus, about one-half mm. wide, showing the 

 penultimate whorl within ; radial grooves more numerous, and there- 

 fore closer. The same characters, and the smaller size, separate 



