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leaves late last fall obtained for me about one hundred specimens 
hibernating in the same way. H. thyroides at this time is occasionally 
gotten here and more especially at the ‘ Vly,’ mostly buried in the 
earth. In a few instances I find the animal out and crawling, ob- 
served them to-day, and on the 26th of December. <A cluster of 
very well-developed fulvus was obtained on the latter date under 
stones near tide water. A goodly quantity of S. ovalis was gathered 
a while ago, among and attached to broken rushes between the tides 
(dormant); but their number has greatly decreased since last 
summer.” 
Thus the region is more than doubly interesting to the conchologist, 
and it is one of the fields to which I have given considerable 
attention. 
Z. fuliginosus. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
The party of scientists in Mexico from the Academy of Natural 
Sciences of Philadelphia are now in the neighborhood of Vera Cruz. 
When last heard from they were about to make an ascent of the 
volcano of Orizaba ; after which they will travel inland. 
I find Hehx clausa abundant in vacant lots within the city limits 
of St. Louis. Found a dozen last summer clinging to leaves of elder 
berry bushes (Sambucus canadensis) at a height of six feet or more 
from the ground.—G. D. Lryp, St. Louis, Mo. 
