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bundles of eight, ten, or more, together. M. Bouchard 

 Chautereaux says they are deposited in September, 

 October, and November, and that from eight to fifteen 

 are laid at one time. They are hatched in from fifteen 

 to twenty days, and the animals are full-grown in from 

 eight to ten months. Nilson placed some of the animals 

 in a glass bell towards the close of January, and on the 

 19th of February he found they had deposited eggs; 

 about the 21 st of March the animals were hatched ; the 

 animals and shells] being perfectly formed as soon as 

 exuded from the eggs. 



Vitriua pellucida is found in w^oods and hedge bot- 

 toms, amongst moss, putrescent leaves, and under stones 

 and decaying wood. 



The localities in this neighbourhood are, the woods 

 at Wollaton, Stanton- on-the-Wolds, Oxton (both on the 

 bogs and on the Warren, where it is extremely abun- 

 dant), and at Highfield House. 



The localities further removed a»e too abundant to 

 describe, a few will suffice. Penzance, in Cornwall 

 (Milletl), Devonshire, Dorsetshire, and Kent (Montagu); 

 Essex (Sheppard), Suffolk (Paget), Norfolk (Bloxara), 

 London (Grey), Newcastle (Alder), Kendal (Gough), 

 Calke Abbey, near Derby (Bloxam), at roots of spino- 

 sissima on Swansea Burrows (Jeffreys), and Norwich 

 (Bridgcnan). 



In Scotland (Laskey), near the summit of Arthur's 

 Seat, Edinburgh (Brown). 



In South Wales (Jeffreys). 



In Ireland, widely spread (Brown), King's County 

 (Brown), and in high mountainous districts (Thompson). 



In the Isle of Man (Forbes). Scilly Isles (Millett). 



On the Continent it is found in France (Draparnaud), 

 Germany (Pfeiffer), and even to the north of Sweden 

 (Nilson). 



