100 THE NAUTILUS. 
partner made a protest. The soil in itself was clean, but when plas- 
tered all over with it we looked bad. It will always be worth a dollar 
apiece to collect damellidens and Ferrissii unless some higher grade 
localities are discovered, Mr. Clapp has since written me that he has 
found /amellidens from New Hampshire. 
Poly. Clarki had climbed higher or dug deeper this year. Very 
few were found, and those only by accident. Our largest was one of 
18 mm. in width. In our opinion the dark coves at_the base of the 
mountains are the best collecting grounds. But as the recuperation 
of health is the only excuse I have to get away from business partners, 
I led the way to the mountain tops. At 6,000 feet it is cool and 
bracing when hot below. It is also too high for mosquitoes and flies. 
Polygyra Andrewsx, Omp. Andrews, Polygyra Rugeli, Cireinaria 
concava and Gastro. accera are the most active snails at all elevations. 
Vitrinizonites latissimus is active upon the slopes near the mountain 
tops. It is found in damp situations and there are two varieties, one 
light horn color with a smooth, firm shell; the other, known as the 
grape skin variety for convenience, larger, nearly black, very thin 
shelled and nearly always crumpled. Both social, but usually col- 
onized separately. 
The large white or light horn colored variety of Foly. Andrewsee 1s 
the most active variety of this species, and is to be found in the paths. 
among the leaves, upon the trunks of trees or old logs everywhere, 
and it is very sociable. I found twenty-three around one stump. This 
species bothered us. The large variety does not colonize with the 
smaller. We found it 37 mm. wide and 25 in height. The smallert 
smoky, typical variety, with a round aperture and about 22 mm. in 
width, was found upon the top of Thunderhead. It was usually a, 
rest under the moss of the trees or under the rocks, but it is nearly as 
active as the larger variety. It has a banded variety. Upon Mirey 
Ridge, upon the Tennessee slope, was a larger, banded form of about 
27 mm. with a white variety. Here we found the dark, cherry-red 
form of about 27 mm., with a white lip, resting in the moss upon old 
logs or the lower corner of large rocks lying up from the ground. The 
animal was light colored also, and when it rolled out from under the 
moss its shining red whorls and white lip glittered like a jewel, and 
Mr. Clapp never failed then to whoop like an Indian. The shell is 
solitary in its habits and never found traveling. We only found two 
at once upon the same stone. Upon the North Carolina side of the ridge 
we found a form about the same size as the latter, which we called 
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