96 THE NAUTILUS. 
that such communications be sent before the 20th of the present 
month. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
CHOANOPOMA (CTENOPOMA) BAHAMENSE SuutT. AT KEY 
Westr.—When at Key West, some years ago, Dr. Wm. H. Rush, 
U.S. N., collected specimens of a small land operculate which he 
found living with Chondropoma dentatum. The species proves to be 
C. bahamense, described from the island of New Providence. Com- 
pared with specimens from that locality, the Key West shells are 
smaller—alt. 8-9, diameter 44-5 mm.—but identical in sculpture and 
form. It is a light, fleshy-yellowish shell, with quite indistinct 
narrow interrupted bands of well-separated brownish dots, closely 
longitudinally ribbed, but not latticed, having no fine spiral sculpture, 
only coarse, very low revolving sculpture, hardly visible on most 
specimens except around the umbilicus. ‘The lip is flat and there 
is a little reflexed “hood” above the upper angle of aperture in 
fully mature shells. Operculum calcareous, with tangential lamelle. 
It is easily separated from C. dentatwm by the lack of decussated 
sculpture. This is a species new to the United States fauna. 
—H.A. P. 
Limn A BULIMOIDES Lra Resisting Droucur.—Specimens of 
a very short-spired form of this species were lately received from 
Mr. Geo. H. Clapp, with the following note: “ They were collected 
by my cousin, Geo. H. Pepper, from a water-hole that appeared to 
be dry most of the year, near Farmington, New Mexico, on Septem- 
ber 20, 1896, and reached me, packed in cotton, on October 5. On 
the 4th of this month (November) J dropped them into warm water 
to soak them loose from the cotton, and about two dozen out of 50 
or more came to life. They had been out of water 45 duys! The 
shells spend nearly as much time out of the water as in it, frequently 
crawling to the top of the glass in which I keep them.” Out of 4 
specimens sent alive, packed in dry cotton, one revived at once 
upon being placed in water, after an additional journey, dry, from 
the 6th to the 9th of November. The survivor has a translucent or 
almost water-colored body, closely peppered with opaque white ; 
eves black ; tentacles opaque white; a dark stripe on back starting 
between tentacles. With the Limnzas were some of the little bi- 
valye Phyllopod crustacean, Estheria mexicana Claus.—H. A. P. 
