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that such communications be sent before the 20th of the present 

 month. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



CHOANOPOMA (CTENOPOMA) BAHAMENSE SHUTT. AT KEY 

 WEST. When at Key West, some years ago, Dr. \Ym. H. Rush, 

 U. S. N., collected specimens of a small land operculate which he 

 found living with Chondropoma dentatum. The species proves to be 

 C. bahamense, described from the island of New Providence. Com- 

 pared with specimens from that locality, the Key West shells are 

 smaller alt. 8-9, diameter 4i-5 mm. but identical in sculpture and 

 form. It is a light, fleshy-yellowish shell, with quite indistinct 

 narrow interrupted bands of well- separated brownish dots, closely 

 longitudinally ribbed, but not latticed, having no fine spiral sculpture, 

 only coarse, very low revolving sculpture, hardly visible on most 

 specimens except around the umbilicus. The lip is flat and there 

 is a little reflexed " hood " above the upper angle of aperture in 

 fully mature shells. Operculum calcareous, with tangential lamellre. 

 It is easily separated from C. dentatum by the lack of decussated 

 sculpture. This is a species new to the United States fauna. 



-H.A.P. 



LTMN.'EA EULIMOIDES Lr.A RESISTING DROUGHT. Specimens of 

 a very short-spired form of this species were lately received from 

 Mr. Geo. H. Clapp, with the following note: " They were collected 

 by my cousin, Geo. H. Pepper, from a water-hole that appeared to 

 be dry most of the year, near Farmington, New Mexico, on Septem- 

 ber 20, 1896, and reached me, packed in cotton, on October 5. On 

 the 4th of this month (November) I dropped them into warm water 

 to soak them loose from the cotton, and about two dozen out of 50 

 or more came to life. They had been ottl oj mil,:,- ',:> <///.- .' The 

 shells spend nearly as much time out of the water as in it, frequently 

 crawling to the top of the glass in which I keep thum." Out of 4 

 specimens sent alive, packed .in dry cotton, one revived at once 

 upon being placed in water, after an additional journey, dry, from 

 the 6th to the 9th of November. The survivor has a translucent or 

 almost water-colored body, closely peppered with opaque white ; 

 eyes black ; tentacles opaque white ; a dark stripe on back starting 

 between tentacles. With the Limnseas were some of the little bi- 

 valve Pliyllopod crustacean, EstJierln inr.c'muni Clans. II. A. P. 



