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to be parenchymatous ; sole very flexible, especially at the 

 edges : pulmonary orifice small. 



On grasses in wet places, high up the stalk. 



The shell of V. Moidinsiana is rather more swollen or 

 barrel-shaped than that of V. Lilljeborgi ; and the labial rib is 

 much stouter ; it agrees exactly with French and Danish 

 specimens which I received from Dr. Baudon and the late Dr. 

 Morch as V. Moulinsiana, and with Swedish and Carinthian 

 specimens sent me by Herr Poulsen and Dr. Westerlund as 

 the Pujja Icevigata of Kokeil. For other synonyms see 

 'Annals ' above cited ; and for other localities see Brit. Conch, i. 

 p. 256, and v. p. 160. 



Vertigo tumiday Westerlund [Papa). 



I am also indebted to Dr. Westerlund for this species, of 

 which I find a specimen in my collection named F. jowsiV/a, 

 var. I am not sure that it is more than a dwarf variety or 

 form of V. pusilla. The two specimens sent by Dr. Wester- 

 lund differ from each other in the number of teeth, one speci- 

 men having five and the other seven teeth. He describes V. 

 tumida as " 6-dentata," and V. pusilla as " 6-8-dentata." 



Vertigo angustior^ Jeffr. 



Miss Amy Warren has kindly sent me some living speci- 

 mens, which she found among moss and Jungermannia at 

 Ballina, Co. Mayo. I am thus enabled to confirm the descrip- 

 tion of the animal given in Brit. Conch, i. pp. 265, 266. The 

 eyes are oval ; and there is no rudiment of a lower pair of ten- 

 tacles. The same lady had previously found this exquisite 

 little shell at Bundoran, Co. Donegal. 



Clausilia rugosa, Draparnaud. 



So many continental conchologists have given me the credit 

 of naming this common and widely spread species G. nigri- 

 cans^ that I should be glad to say a few words in explanation. 

 In my " Synopsis of the Testaceous Pulmonobranchous Mol- 

 lusca of Great Britain," which was read at a meeting of the 

 Linnean Society of London in 1828, and published in their 

 Transactions, I described (p. 351) G. nigricans^ quoting G. 

 rugosa of Draparnaud, Helix perversa of Mliller, Turho per- 

 versus of Pennant and Donovan, T. hidens of Montagu, and 

 T. nigricans of Pulteney (2nd edition) and of Maton and 

 Rackett. I then assumed that, because the Helix perversa of 

 Miiller and the Turho perversus of Pennant and Donovan 



