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By E. W. SWANTON. 



JTlHE following notes chiefly concern a series of 

 shells, now in the Haslemere Museum, col- 

 lected by myself within recent years in the 

 Stowers district. They may stimulate further 

 investigation of the molluscan fauna of the 

 county. Some very rare and interesting forms 

 have been taken of the white lipped banded 

 hedge snail, Helix hortensis, which is remark- 

 ably abundant in that neighbourhood. They may be 

 classified under 6 headings. 

 1. Band mutations. 



The method devised by Herr von Martens for recording the 

 mutations is to designate the normal number of bands (5) by 

 numerals, the uppermost band to be reckoned as No. 1, the 

 lowest as No. 5, fused bands are indicated by enclosing 

 in brackets the numerals representing them, missing bands 

 by a cypher. That method is here employed in indicating 

 the following rare and uncommon forms taken at Stour Row. 

 10345, also from Marnhull ; 103 (45) rare both in Britain 

 and on the continent ; 0(23)45, hitherto unknown to science ; 



