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coffins in Yorkshire (Grey J), in Saxon coffins at Stone^ 

 Buckinghamshire (Rev. J. B. ReadoJ), Shotford Bridge, 

 Norfolk, and Calke Abbey, Derbyshire (BloxamJ), 

 Thorpe, near Norwich (Bridgman^, Kendal (Gough), 

 Newcastle (Alderj, Scotland' (Flemingj, Dublin, 

 Queen's Connty, and Cork (Brown), Dromana, County 

 Waterford (Miss M. Ballj. 



On the continent, in France (Draparnaud), Germany 

 (PfeiflFer), Sicily (Philippi), Sweden (Nilson), widely 

 spread on the continent (Forbes). 



SUCCINEA. 



Egg-shaped, spiral, fragile, and semi-transparent 

 shells. Aperture oblique; shell covered with an epi- 

 dermis. Animal broad for its length, and having four 

 tentacles. 



Found on wet mud, and on the leaves and stems of 

 water and bog plants. 



Sdccinea putris [The Common Amber Snail]. 



Litmaus' 



Figures 85 and 86. 



85. 



86 



Under this name Professor Forbes unites the Succinea 

 putris and the Succinea P/eifferi of Grey and Pfeiffer; 



