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By C. O. P. CAMBRIDGE. 



HE following brief paper is a notice of a few rare 

 land shells which have been found in this county 

 since the publication of Mr. Mansel-Pley dell's 

 paper, in volume vi. of The Dorset Field Club 

 Proceedings. I have merely mentioned their 

 localities and the dates of their capture, with a 

 few notes on habitat and habits; full descriptions of the species can 

 be found in any of the numerous works published on " British Land 

 and Fresh- water Shells." 



The first species I have to notice is Helix Pisana, two specimens 

 of which I found on the borders of Muston Down, between the 

 village of Winterbourne Kingston and Blandford. I was exceedingly 

 surprised to find this species in such a locality, as I believe it is 

 generally confined to sandbanks on the sea shore. These two 

 specimens were found on a chalk bank in January, 1889 ; one was 

 alive and the other dead. They were rather small and resembled 

 the Tenby type, though with thinner bands and less distinct 

 markings. The Tenby examples (where the species is abundant), 

 differ considerably from those taken in Jersey, the latter being much 

 larger, thinner, paler, and of a browner hue. I sent the two 

 specimens to the meeting of the Conchological Society of Great 

 Britain, held at Leeds, in January, 1890, and they were then named 



