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and have a copper-tinted nacre. U. paiili/s Lea and N. corvimis 

 Lea are very likely the same specie?, but I should not place them in 

 the synonomy of U. parvus as Mr. Call does. 



U. visicularis Lea, of which I have before me the two original 

 specimens on which the species was founded, is certainly not U. 

 parvus. Both these specimens are dead shells, very badly eroded 

 and in poor condition, but they are nearer to U. amygdalum than 

 any of the Parvus group, and probably are merely a somewhat 

 heavy, light-brown variety of tbat species. Uxio viitgleycmua is a 

 smooth, shining, yellowish or waxy-brown shell, sometimes tinted 

 and rayed with green, and very different from U. parvus. And U. 

 minor seems to me to be more nearly related to U. wsiciilarig than 

 to U. parrns, under which Mr. C'all places it. 



r/uo haleianus Lea is not noticed in this revision of the Far- 

 ms group, although it should undoubtedly be placed with that 

 assemblage. It is the largest of the species, one of Lea's specimens 

 before me being 2} inches long by 1 \ high, and is nearest to U. te.cu.i- 



.ii.t, but is a less heavy species. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



MEXICAN LAND SHELLS. Professor T. D. A. Cockerel! has sent 

 to me a few land shells collected at San Rafael, Jicaltepec, Vera 

 Cruz, by Professor C. H. T. Towusend. The species are: 



Helitina ftavida Mke. Wonderfully variable in color. Some are 

 uniform yellow with red apex ; others uniform reddish ; others 

 whitish with the spire red, or whitish below, red above, while some 

 specimens are girt with a reddish band above the periphery, on a 

 whitish ground. The size also varies considerably. 



Glandinaf A species of the decu&satug group, not adult. 



Volutaxls giinilaris Strebel. Somewhat larger than the type, alt. 

 7 mm. 



Praticolella griseottt Pfr. 



Praticolella ampla Pfr. This Helix looks a good deal like simi- 

 lar is Fer. 



Bulimulus sulphureus Pfr. Besides the ordinary uuicolored form, 

 there is one example with five reddish bands, the umbilical and basal 

 continuous, those above interrupted into squarish spots at irregular 

 intervals. This color form has not before been noticed. H. A. P. 



