PALUDESTRINA JENKINSI NEAR HULL. 237 
Bank shells are carinated and the carination of the body 
whorl is scarcely distinguishable. Specimens trom Barking 
are a pale horn colour, almost white, and very glossy ; ours 
are reddish brown and somewhat rough, well deserving the 
name of castanea. 
The pond in which they occur is at some distance from 
the bank, and has no possible communication with the river. 
The identification has been confirmed by Mr. Lionel E. 
Adams. 
REFERENCES. 
E. A. Smith. Loc. cit. 
E. A. Smith. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. vii., vol. vii., p. 191 (on P. 
Taylori). 
B. B. Woodward. On the Radula of P. jenkinsi, Smith, and that Ofer: 
ventrosa, Mont. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. vi., vol. ix (1892), 
pp. 376-8. 
Jeffreys. Brit. Conchology, vol. i., pp. 68-69. 
G. B. Sowerby. Illus. Index Brit. Shells, p. 14, fig. II. 
A. J. Jenkins. Essex Nat. (1891), vol. v., p- 232- 
A. J. Jenkins. Science Gossip (1890), vol. xxvi., PP. 104-5- (r891), vol. 
XXvii., Pp. 9. 
Walter Crouch. Essex Nat. (1890), vol. iv., p. 213 (with fig.) 
L. E. Adams. Collectors’ Manual of British L. & F. W. Shells, 2nd ed. 
A. S. Kennard & B. B. Woodwatd (with fig.), Loc. cit. and Proc. Malac. 
Soc., Lond., vol. iii., p. 299- 
CARPENTER BEE AT HEepon.—A fine example of the Car- 
penter Bee was caught at Hedon on August roth, on dead 
branches supporting scarlet runners. It was alive when I 
saw it ten days later, having survived all attempts to feed it, 
and though I was assured it was much enfeebled, the noise it 
created could be heard ata considerable distance. —T. PETCH, 
B.A., B.Sc. 
Tur GREAT SNIPE NEAR Hutt.—On August 23rd, I flushed 
a common snipe from one of the inland creeks at Cherry Cob 
Sands. Whilst watching him zigzag, I heard a whirring 
noise close behind me and was surprised to see another 
snipe fly straight past me down the creek in pursuit of the 
first. As I had the two in view together I was able to deter- 
mine with certainty that the second was Gallinago major, the 
solitary or great snipe, a somewhat rare straggler to our 
shores. It showed much more white than the common, 
seemed plumper and flew straighter, though it was a bad 
second when they rounded the bend. It could hardly be said 
to get up silently; it did not ‘‘call,” but the whirr of its 
wings was very distinct. —T. PETCH. 
