266 Quarterly Journal of CoucJwlogy. 



leaves is most likely, as among them it usually seeks its home. It 

 is possible, however, that it may sometimes change its diet, for 

 several of my specimens frequently leave their moist holly leaves 

 and nestle among the roots of a piece of Jungennannia platy- 

 phylla, which I have given them. I do not think my pretty little 

 friend is carnivorous, at all events, though he has been supplied 

 with tempting morsels of flesh of various kinds, both cooked and 

 raw, he seems to avoid them, and I can discover no signs, even 

 with the microscope, of his having committed any ravages upon 

 them. 



HELIX PISANA, Muller. 

 By Richard Rimmer. 



In the 1 2th number of "The Quarterly Journal of Con- 

 chology " there is an interesting communication by Mr. Sheriff 

 Tye, respecting H. Fisaua, upon which I will venture to offer a 

 few remarks. 



In the summer of 1876 he observed this species in Vazon 

 Bay, Guernsey, and not having met with any record of its exist- 

 ence in that island, very naturally concluded that he was the first 

 to discover the fact of its being there. During the summer of 

 1873, however, I found it close to Vale Castle, near St. Sampsons. 

 In making this statement I trust it will be distinctly understood 

 that I have no intention or desire whatever to deprive a l)rother 

 naturalist of the satisfaction which a wfc find is calculated to 

 afford, my sole object being, if possible, to arrive at the truth, 

 which, to my thinking, is of much more moment than any priority 

 of claim to discovery. 



Upon finding this species in a locality where, like Mr. Sheriff 

 Tye, I believed it had hitherto been unobserved, I wa}s on the 



