72 THE NAUTILUS. 



should be reduced to the rank of a subgenus. Zoologists who have 

 opportunity to collect in the Puget Sound region should be on the 

 lookout tor this slug, for it is important that its anatomical characters 

 be confirmed by additional specimens, as only one was examined 

 by Dr. Babor. It. can probably be recognized externally by the dif- 

 ferent tail pore. It has not been figured. 



Note on Ashmunella hyporhyssa (Ckll.). — I have recently 

 visited Cloudcroft, in the Sacramento Mts., N. M., and found hypo- 

 rhyssa excessively abundant, under pine logs and pieces of pine bark 

 upon the ground. The Cloudcroft form differs from the type of 

 hyporhyssa (rhyssa var.) in uniformly lacking the parietal tooth, but 

 otherwise the shell seems quite the same. It may be called var. 

 edentata. There are three color-mutations, as follows : 



(1) Edentata proper; shell horn-color or pale greyish-brown. The 

 commonest form. 



(2) Rufescens, n. mut.; shell deep ferruginous or chestnut color, lip 

 tinged with pink. Quite common. Analogous to the mut. rubens of 

 Hygromia rufescens. 



(3) Alba, n. mut.; shell creamy white. Rare, only three or four 

 found. The first albino reported in Ashmunella. — T. D. A. Cock- 



EKELL. 



Circinaria Hemphilli in California. — I have specimens of 

 Circinaria hemphilli from Central California, as follows : 



1. Mission Peak, near eastern shore of San Francisco Bay. 



2. Forest Hill, Placer Co., in Sierra Nevada Mts., west slope, 

 3,700 ft. alt. I think this species has not heretofore been reported 

 from further south than Oregon. — Fred L. Button. 



Helix hortensis in Newfoundland. — A friend has just 

 brought me a living example of H. hortensis (12345) from the 

 " headwaters of Robinson's River," west coast of Newfoundland, and 

 promises a lot of them next year. Isn't this a new locality ? — G. H.« 

 Clapp, 



