THE NAUTILUS. 83 



ORDER ASIPHONIDA. 



Mantle margins open ; no siphons ; pallial impressions without 

 «inus. This Order is sub-divided into three Sub-orders, Homoni- 

 yaria, Heteromyaria and ^Nlononiyaria. 



SUB-ORDER. HOMOMYARIA. 



Both muscular impressions equally distinct. 

 {To he continued.) 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Last January a living specimen of Glandina buUaia Gould, was 

 received from Green Co., Ala. 



After keeping it active for a few days it was put in a box, where 

 it remained dormant until placed in a pan containing danip sod 

 (May 4th) ; since then it has been out most every day. 



My children delight to watch it crawl about and often handle it, 

 letting it crawl over their hands. 



Some Patula perspediva Say, were put in the pan; off of them it 

 made several meals, removing them from the shell by suction or by 

 cutting away the upper part of the whorls, except the last one. 



A Helix muralis Miiller, was eaten without injury to the shell. 

 A few days ago a Cut-worm was offered to it but was refused ; it was 

 then offered a Limax campestris Binuey, which was eaten with ev- 

 ident relish, as were two others. They were first taken hold of in the 

 fissure, at the base of the palpiform labial appendages, and the fore 

 part of the foot ; the buccal pouch was then protruded and the slug 

 forcibly drawn in. The mouth is round, and I judge it to be about 

 three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter. While in the act of swallow- 

 ing, the palpiform appendages are drawn back to the sides of the head 

 and have a slight resemblance to ears ; enough so, that a boy stand- 

 ing by exclaimed, " see his ears ; I did not know it had ears." 



Later I tried it to see how many slugs it would eat at one time. 

 Taking it up by the shell its head would be placed on a slug and in 

 that way it picked up and ate six ; the seventh it would not take 

 hold of. This meal gorged it so that it could not withdraw whollv 

 within its shell. — A. A. Hinkky, Du Bois, III. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



A Preliminary Catalogue of the Shell-Bearing jMarine 

 MoLLusKsand Brachiopods of the Southeastern Coast of the United 



