iga The Ottawa Naturalist. [February 



ment to help carry on our work and which has been of such great 

 aid to us. 



Last year we lost in Dr. McCabe one who was a good friend 

 to us. We miss him at our opening meeting where he was 

 usually on hand to give us words of welcome. We have good 

 cause to feel, however, that his successor, Principal White, is in 

 close sympathy with u-, ^nd we have found him ever ready to do 

 what he could to further ihe work of the Club. The fact that Mr. 

 White has invited us to hold al our winter soirees in the Normal 

 School is sufficient guarantee of his good will. 



Members of the Club, ladies and gentlemen, I trust that we 

 shall continue to have a successful year and that you will do your 

 part as I hope to do mine to make it so. 



MOLLUSCA. 



Jlelicigona arbustorum in Newfoundland. 



Adult living specimens of this common British and European 

 land snail were collected by Dr. Robert Bell in the middle of July, 

 1885, on grassy slopes facing the sea, near the narrows of 

 St. Johns Harbor, Newfoundland. So far as the writer is aware, 

 this is the first time that this species has been found, in a living 

 state, on the American side of the Atlantic. Dr. Bell says that 

 many wrecks of vessels take place on this part of the coast, and 

 that a little farther to the south' of the locality where these snails 

 were found, there is a small patch where the common heather 

 {Calltuta vtilgans) grows. This marks the spot, he adds, where 

 an emigrant ship was stranded, and the beds of the emigrants, 

 which were stuffed with heather, were taken ashore and emptied out. 



Dr. Pilsbry has pointed out that Helix arbustorum, as this 



land snail used to be called, is the type and only known species of 



Arianta, Leach, (1831) which is now regarded as only a section 



of Ferussac's genus Helicigona (18 19), and which is separated 



from Helix on purely anatomical grounds Von. Martens changed 



the name Arianta to Arionta, for etymjlogical reasons, but 



Arianta, (Leach) is not the same as the Arionta of American 



authors. 



J. F. Whiteaves. 

 Ottawa, Dec. 4th, 1903. 



