78 A NATURE WOOING. 



March 19, 1899. Earning in the forenoon. Along 

 the river bank, in front of the house where I room, 

 are several bunches of hay, which is composed of a 

 mixture of stems of weeds and coarse bunch grass. 

 It has lain there for several months. I turned it over 

 between showers, and found several specimens of the 

 field cricket, Gryllus pennsylvanicm Burm., and a 

 male of a long-winged roach, Ischnoptem bolliana 

 Sauss., neither of which I have seen here before. 

 From beneath some near-by rubbish, along the sides 

 of a rill which carries the waste of a flowing well 

 to the river, I also secured several examples of that 

 flat, discoidal snail, Polygyra septemvolva Say. The 

 whorls are seven in number, compressed, depressed, 

 and marked with conspicuous lines and grooves 

 above. In color it is russet-horn, and the greatest 

 diameter is three-fifths of an inch. Its range is con- 

 fined to the Atlantic coast of Georgia and Florida. 

 I afterwards took it beneath decaying palmetto logs 

 and rubbish in a number of places near Ormond. 



Another snail, of which I to-day secured a single 

 specimen, beneath the rubbish by the rill, is Polygyra 

 pustula Fer., a reddish, horn-colored and hirsute 

 species, whose maximum breadth is but one-fifth of 

 an inch. It is chiefly characterized by having a deep 

 groove within the umbilicus, and ranges from 

 Georgia to Texas. 



In the afternoon, though the wind was blowing 

 strongly, I once again visited the beach. The most 



