66 THE NAUTILUS. 



Habitat, Liu-Kiu l8. (Dr. Rusclienberger.) 



This is a very solid, heavy form, apparently belonging to the 

 group of ^. pallasiana Pfr. but very different from that species in 

 its much more convex whorls, deeper suture, more broadly ex- 

 ]»anded umbilicus, and in the rounded body-whorl, the earlier part 

 of which is very acutely carinated in H. pallasiana. There are four 

 specimens before me, one of them about half grown, the others adults. 

 The young shell is very obtusely angled at the periphery ; the strise 

 are minutely granulated. The embryonic shell is large, about one- 

 fifth the diam. of the adult, composed of about 2! whorls, of which 

 the outer 1 ■> are finely, distinctly granulate, the inner ones having 

 low, curved, radiating little folds. The termination of the embry- 

 onic shell is marked bv a distinct line. 



EASTERN NEW YORK NOTES. 



BY W. 8. TEATOR, UPPER RED HOOK, N. Y. 



To our list of mollusca inhabiting this Duchess County region, 

 Mr. Gilbert van Ingen of Poughkeepsie has recently made some good 

 additions, among them, these : Patula asferisciis, Pupa simplex and 

 Zouites internus. 



The first named, asteriscus, was discovered under the mould in a 

 swamp near the city. Mr. van Ingen in a letter to me gives the fol- 

 lowing : " The locality where I found them is known as ' The Glen' 

 at Vassar College. It is a small deep valley worn out by a stream 

 in the hills of drift. Through the center of the narrow strip of 

 level land at the bottom flows the stream, on either side of which is 

 the swamp. The soil is fine black muck and is very wet and cold." 

 But two specimens were found at first, and later two more were 

 taken. 



Of Pupa simplex about a half dozen were obtained in the same 

 place, under moist leaves. 



Zonites ititermcs is one of those which are out of place here so far 

 east, though it has been reported at Albany. Mr. van Ingen found 

 a few live specimens and a number of dead ones on the hills oppo- 

 site Poughkeepsie during the latter part of last March. 



