7 I THE NAUTILUS. 



that in these choice retreats mosquitoes are abundant. The New 

 Jersey mosquito, like Napoleon's famous Old Guard, dies, but never 

 surrenders. You wipe him off, and the gore flows freely. Here were 

 found Polygyra albolabris maritime/,) Bijidaria hordeacella, B. pento- 

 don, Vertigo milium, Zonitoides arboreus, Agriolimax campestris and 

 Succinea campestris vagans. Only one specimen each of the Zoni- 

 toides and Agriolimax were found. An additional species, Zonitoides 

 minusculus, occurred a few miles further northwest. 



In Cape May city, on mounds around the tanks at the gas works 

 at 703 Lafayette street, I found Vallonia pulckeUa and Pupoides mar- 

 ginatus quite abundant. These may possibly be imported species, as 

 nothing of them was seen except in the old and long settled part of 

 town. 



The most remarkable records are Bijidaria hordeacella, a species 

 of the Gulf States, hitherto not known north of the Georgia Sea 

 Islands, and the very distinct variety of Succinea, which may be de- 

 fined thus : 



Succinea campestris vagans, n. v. 



Shell similar to *S. campestris in the wrinkled surface and very 

 convex last whorl, but smaller, with only 2§ whorls in fully mature 

 specimens, the aperture shorter and less ovate, and the color a rather 

 pale olive-green, translucent, with scarcely any whitish layer within ; 

 surface rather dull. 



Length 9, diam. 6.5, longest axis of aperture 6.2 mm. 



Length 7.6, diam. 5.6, longest axis of aperture 5.4 mm. 



Cape May Point, N. J. (H. A. P., August, 1898.) Types No. 

 78,882, coll. A. N. S. 



I cannot refer the specimens to any Northern species. They are 

 nearer S. campestris, which extends from the Georgia coast, through- 

 out Florida, and west to the mouth of the Mississippi, the western 

 specimens being the thin, smooth and glossy variety unicolor of Tryon. 



Some years ago, Mr. W. B. Marshall reported Succinea avara 

 from Cape May. " The exact locality was on the ocean front at 8th 

 avenue, Mt. Vernon, between Cape May City and Cape May Point, 

 and was not more than 200 f et from the line of high tide." ' Some 

 of these specimens are now before me, and seem referable to S. aurea 

 Lea rather than to avara; though it must be acknowledged that the 



•Nautilus, VI, p. 19, June, 1892. 



