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tightly adhering to its shell, seemingly not much hindered or retarded by 

 it till it began to ascend the face of the wall, where a slight twig barred 

 the way, which the burdened Snail could neither get under nor over. After 

 a close inspection of the obstacle and its surroundings it began to creep up 

 the slender twig, which was gradually enveloped and good progress made 

 till a projecting ledge had been reached, to surmount which it had to relax 

 Its hold of a part of the twig, causing the pendant load to oscillate and 

 drag away the greater part of the body, which, drawn out to great length, 

 swung to and fro like a pendulum. How this mishap was to be got over 

 I was at a loss to imagine, and momentarily expected to see the Snail come 

 toppling down, but it held on tenaciously, and ere long began to contract 

 its attenuated body till, bit by bit, it had regained its hold of the stem, and ere 

 night had succeeded in overcoming all obstacles. But for this marvellous 

 muscular power many Snails might perish, seeing that the first which 

 revive have to tear themselves away from the agglutinated mass, and are 

 not unfrequently heavily laden as described.— Henry Hadfield (Ventnor, 

 Isle of Wight). j; 



Marine Mollusca of Kerry.— In the last volume of 'The Zoologist' 

 (p. 418) I described the various forms of inland Mollusca sent to me 

 by the Eev. A. H. Delap from the neighbourhood of Valentia, and now 

 proceed to give some account of the marine species collected, which are 

 both numerous and interesting. Most of the species were taken in Valentia 

 Harbour, and the following is a list of those from that locality : — Anomia 

 ephippium, A. patelliformis, Pecten variiis, P. maximus, P. opercularis, 

 P. pusio, Modiolaria dlscors, M. marmorata, Area tetragona (curiously 

 worn and distorted by the rocks, as described in ' British Conchology '), 

 TelUna tenuis and var. alba, T. balthica and var. citrina, T. squalida, 

 Psammobiaferroensis {siui var. pallida, without the pink rays), P. tellinella, 

 Vinus ovata, V. gallina, F. verrucosa, Axinus Jiexuosus, Mactra subtmncata, 

 Saxicava rugosa var. pholadis, Mya truncata, M. binghami, Cardium 

 echinatum, C. nodosum, Helcion pellucidum, Trochus umbilicatus, T. cine- 

 rarius, T. tumidus, T. magus, T. zizyphinus, Lacuna divaricata and var. 

 quadri/asciata, Mont., Littorina obtusata var. lutea, L. rudis, small varieties, 

 one, pallidula, 10^ mill, long, pale yellowish, and not strongly ribbed, and 

 two forms of y&r. jugosa, Mont., — rubra, entirely red, and albagrisea, whitish 

 grey, with a white band below the periphery and a white base. Rissoa 

 membranacea, R. parva, type form. Pi. striata, Odostomia lactea, Natica 

 alderi, Scalaria communis, Nassa reticulata, N. incrassata, Murex erinaceus, 

 Aporrhdis pes-pelecani, Dejrancia purpurea, var. deep chocolate-brown, 

 variegated with white, Pleurotoma costata, Cerithium reticulatum, Cypraa 

 europaa (of two forms, typica, pale brownish or pinkish, with or without 

 brown spots, and an ash-coloured variety, spotless or with black spots). 

 Scaphander lignarius, and Acera bullata. Accompanying the above, also 



