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leaves late last fall obtained for me about one hundred specimens 

 hibernating in the same way. H. thyroides at this time is occasionally 

 gotten here and more especially at the ' Vly,' mostly buried in the 

 earth. In a few instances I find the animal out and crawling, ob- 

 served them to-day, and on the 26tli of December. A cluster of 

 very well-developed fulvus was obtained on the latter date under 

 stones near tide water. A goodly quantity of N. ovaMs was gathered 

 a while ago, among and attached to broken rushes between the tides 

 (dormant) ; but their number has greatly decreased since last 

 summer." 



Thus the region is more than doul)ly interesting to the couchologist, 

 and it is one of the fieUls to which I have given considerable 

 attention. 



Z. fuliginosus. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The party of scientists in ^Mexico from the Academy of ^Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia are now in the neighborhood of Vera Cruz. 

 When last heard from they were about to make an ascent of the 

 volcano of Orizaba ; after which they will travel inland. 



I find Helix clausa abundant in vacant lots within the city limits 

 of St. Louis. Found a dozen last summer clinging to leaves of elder 

 berry bushes (Sambucus cavadensis) at a height of six feet or more 

 from the ground. — G. D. Lind, St. Louis, Mo. 



