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know better to agitate the matter sufficiently to bring about a reform, 

 if that is possible T. D. A. Cockerell. 



A NE^Y Collector in the Field A few days ago I noticed 



in my garden, where a Chipmunk {Tamias strialus Linne.) had been 

 " cleaning house " for the spring, the only refuse he had brought out 

 was about a pint of empty shells, consisting of two species, about an 

 equal number each, Polygyra monodon Rack, and Succinea avara 

 Say. With the Polygyras the upper half of the shells were eaten 

 away and then nicely cleaned of the animal, the Succineas all 

 had the animal cleanly taken out without breaking the frail shell in 

 the least. The Succineas are every season very plenty within fifty 

 feet of Mr. Chipmunk's abode, and the P. monodon is the predomin- 

 ating species of the genus in this locality, Des Moines, Iowa T. 



Van Hyning. 



Messrs. Walker, Clapp and Henderson have made a short collect- 

 ing trip in the Blue Ridge of Virginia. They report a small catch. 



Additional Notes on Limax maximus L. in California.— 

 It may be appropriate to add to Mr. Bartsch's note on the occurence 

 of Limax maximus L. in California, that the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia has received this species from the following 

 additional places in that state: Oakland, collected by Messrs. Williard 

 Wood and F. L. Button in 1896 ; Los Angeles, Dr. R. E. C. 

 Stearns, collected April 9, 1901; Monterey Co., Mr. Geo. H. Clapp; 

 San Jose, collected by Mr. 0. P. Jenkins in 1902; and also from 

 Pasadena, Oct. 1896 and Long Beach in 1899, collected by Mr. H. 

 N. Lowe. — E. G. Vanatta. 



Note on Venus arakana Nevill. — In the Proceedings of the 

 Malacological Society for Oct., 1903, Mr. Smith has correctly re- 

 ferred Venus malonei Vanatta to Nevill's ppecies, but at the i>ame 

 time he has added a new name to the synonymy by calling it 

 V. *' arakane7isis." The brothers Nevill did not describe this dhell 

 as " Venus {Timoclea) arakanensis," as quoted by Mr. Smith. They 



