TRANSPLANTATION OF BIVALVES. 7 1 



cornetiin attached to the toes of newts at Farlngton, 

 Lancashire. The late Mr. W. Jeffery told me that 

 ever since he was a boy dabbling with aquaria he 

 had occasionally met with this bivalve clinging to 

 newts ; the same has been frequently observed by Mr. 

 L. E. Adams in ponds in the South of England, and Mr. 

 Hardy, during- his long- experience as a collector, has 



FIG. 4. 



Sphceriuni conietim upon the foot of a newt. Preserved in the Manchester Museum. 



observed many instances (Fig. 4), as also has Mr. 

 Standen, who informed me in 1890 that for many years 

 he had not missed taking either smooth or great warty 

 newts {Molge vulgaris or M. cristata) with shells of this 

 species upon their feet. In 1890, in ponds in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Manchester, he met with four instances, three 

 with M, vulgaris and one with M, cristata : in one case. 



