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the ‘ Seven-year Snake,” as he or she who kills such a one is supposed to 
obtain remission of sins for a like period! When I obtained a specimen of 
this little reptile in Barbados I thought it was a second species of snake, 
and remained under that impression until my collection had been critically 
examined, when it proved, so far, only to contain one species, and I wrote 
accordingly (vide antea, p. 296). I have now to modify that statement, 
and to express my regret that carelessness on my part caused the omission 
of Stenostoma bilineatum from my list of Barbadian reptiles. —H. W. 
FEILpEn (West House, Wells, Norfolk). 
FISHES. 
Greater Flying-fish off the Cornish Coast.— During the second 
week of July last the crew of a fishing-boat, the ‘ Little Gleaner,’ when ten 
or twelve miles off the Lizard, on drawing their mackerel-nets, found a 
Flying-fish, E'xocetus volitans, Day, entangled in the meshes. It measured 
144 inches in length, and was in good cordition.— Marruras Dunn 
(Mevagissey, Cornwall). 
MOLLUSCA. 
Mollusca of Stourport and District.—The following list of species 
' taken by me last Whitsuntide at Stourport, may form an interesting 
addendum to what is already known concerning the molluscan fauna of 
Worcestershire :—Limnea glabra (Mill.), very plentiful in a ditch on 
Hartlebury Common ; some very large specimens also in a ditch in a field 
on the Severn side belonging to the Coney Green Farm. Planorbis 
spirorbis (Miill.), in the same ditch on Hartlebury Common, and also in 
Hillage Pool. Out of Hillage Pool I also took L. peregra (Mill.), with its 
vars. ovata (Drap.) and labiosa (Jeff.), Bythinia tentaculata (Linn.), B. leachit 
(Shepp.), Valvata piscinalis (Mill.), Ancylus oblongus (Lightfoot), Planorbis 
umbilicatus (Mill.), P. carinatus (Miull.), P. vortex (Linn.). Limnea 
palustris (Mill.), Spherium corneum (Linn.), Anodonta anatina (Linn.), 
and Unio tumidus (Phillippson). Swccinea elegans (Risso) and S. Pfeifferi 
(Rossm.) were common on the sedges round the pool. Typical specimens of 
Helix arbustorum (Linn.), with vars. pallida (Taylor) and marmorata (Poff.) 
were common at Lincombe Bay, and on a nettle-covered bank at the base 
of Stagbury Hill. At Lincombe Bay I also took fine examples of Succinea 
putris (Linn.) and S. elegans (Risso), which were living-on the nettles near 
the Severn in company with Helia sericea (Miill.), H hispida (Linn.), 
H. rufescens (Penn), H. rotundata (Miull.), Helix nemoralis var. carnea 
(Roeb. and Taylor), with band-formule of 00300 and 123(45), Helix 
hortensis var. lutea (Mogq.), with band-formule of 00000, 12345, 128(45), 
and var. albina (Moq.), with band-formule of (12345), 12345, 1(234)5, 
Hyalinia cellaria (Mill.), H. alliaria (Mill.), Clausilia rugosa (Drap.), and 
Cochlicopa lubrica (Mill.). In the “Deep Meadow” near the Severn at 
Stourport I found Succinea putris (Linn.), 8. elegans (Risso), Arion subfuscus 
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