84 THE NAUTILUS. 
Pecten hastatus is now occasionally found at Newport, on the 
ocean beach. All I have seen are far more brilliant in color than 
those from Puget Sound. They are the richest shades of rose pink 
and crimson, both valves alike or nearly so. 
SOME LAND SHELLS OF MICHIGAN. 
[Extract from the Report of Mr. H. Smith. From the Transactions of the Isaac 
ea Conchological Chapter for 1895.] 
I live on the bank of the St. Joseph River, about 25 miles from 
Lake Michigan. I find here Helix thyroides Say, Helix elevata Say, 
HI. multlineata Say, H. leai Ward, H. hirsuta Say, Patula solitaria 
Say, P. alternata Say, Pupa armifera Say, Planorbis trivolvis Say, 
P. bicarinatus Say, P.exacutus Say, Succinea ovalis Gould, Selenites 
concavus Say, Campeloma integra Say, Hyalina electrina Gould, 
Pomatiopsis cineinnatiensis Lea. I am indebted to Prof. Pilsbry for 
aid and encouragement. He identified a good many of my shells 
for me, and advised me where to get literature on the subject. 
Prof. Keep also helped me and sent me some specimens. 
I found what might be called a “colony ” of Patula alternata on 
a big stone pile, they seemed very plentiful at that place, and I did 
not see them anywhere else. The stone pile is gone now, and I 
shall have to look elsewhere for the pretty shells. The Helix ele- 
vata I found in a colony on the steep river bank, under the bushes 
among the leaves. 
ODOR OF SNAILS. 
It may not be known to every conchologist, that some of the 
Helices have odors peculiar to them. 
We find here, Mesodon ptychophorus, Patula strigosa, P. solitaria, 
Triodopsis mullanii var. olneye in the same locality. The Patula 
solitaria has so strong an odor, like Mephitis mephitica, that I sup- 
posed at first they fed on Ietodes (Symplocarpus) fetidus. Always 
the same odor and at all seasons—Mary P. OLNEY. 
