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of its body and the more slender shape of the shell, 

 as well as in its longer and more pointed spire. 



Dr. Gray, in his edition of " Turton's Manual " 

 (pp. 146, 147), treats them as varieties of one species. 

 Capt. Bruce Hutton, of the 61st Regiment, writing 

 in " The Zoologist " for 1862 (p. 8138), records the 

 following observations, which lead him to believe they 

 are distinct. He says : " Between the North and 

 South Camps, Aldershott, runs the Basingstoke 

 Canal, along the sides of which, both up and down 

 as far as I have been, the Succinea abounds ; and 

 they are all alike, small, narrow, very oblique, and, 

 while the animal is in the shell, the colour is bluish- 

 black. About a mile from Ash the Canal is raised 

 on an embankment nearly thirty feet above the level 

 of the surrounding country, and the land at the foot 

 of the bank is used as an osiery, where among the 

 willows, etc., the yellow Iris grows luxuriantly. 

 Last month (May) nearly every leaf in this spot had 

 a Succinea on it, some of the largest I have ever 

 met with, and about four times the size of their 

 neighbours on the Canal. The colour of the animal 

 was invariably a dull white, or white with a shade of 

 yellow. The shell much larger, the whorls more 



