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NOTES ON PLEISTOCENE AND RECENT SHELLS FROM CRETE. 

 By the Rev. R. Ashington Bullen, F.L.S., F.G.S. 



Read I2tk May, 1905. 



The shells enumerated in the following notes were hronght from 

 Crete by Miss Dorothea M. A. Bate, and came into my possession 

 last January. 



A. Pleistocene Shells. 



These came from two cave-deposits, and were introduced into their 

 position under different conditions. 

 • (1) Two small red masses of cave-breccia contain land shells only. 

 All the specimens seem to be identical, but of different stages of 

 growth. They are referable to Helix pelUta, Fer. 



Pilsbry records H. pellita as a recent shell from Morca, Syra, and 

 Rhodes. The present communication seems to be its first record in 

 a fossil state. 



Grdbusa 1.^ 

 a 



ICape Kutr 



In 



Diagram M'ap of Crete. 



Note: KharoLimes is mar.hed Caniba I Bay) & Carouba (Town} in Sprati's map of 

 Eastern Crete. 



The actual siimmii I of Ida) has for ages been called Psilonti or Y'psiloriTi 

 (''Yifni/MffniTiovl The plains are called Ullda^ Nidha orNetha euid.en.tly 



a corruption ojthe ancieni name, Spiati t. 9. 



(24 [25 [2B 



Locality. — Pleistocene cave-deposit (upper layers) at Kharoumes, 

 East Crete. (Asokiramo in the French military map, that of the 

 Service geographique de I'Armee.) 



(2) A small fragment of mammalian bone contains only marine 

 shells and fragments. The largest is referable to CaUiostoma Laugieri 

 (Payraudeau), although its whorls are rather more tumid than those of 

 recent specimens. 



There is likewise a small fragment of a Cardium-like shell and of 

 a Bryozoan colony (probably identifiable) adherent to the bone. 



