PUPA SECALE IN CUMBERLAND. 
W. DENISON ROEBUCK, F.L.S. 
THE Rev.. W. Wright Mason, B.A., Rector of Melmerby, 
Cumberland, has sent me a number of specimens of Pupa 
secale which he found on the 14th August in a disused 
quarry just under Melmerby Low Scar, which faces west, at 
1,605 feet altitude. It was in company with Pupa cylindracea, 
Cochlicopa lubrica, Pyramidula rupestris, Hygromia hispida, 
Helix nemoralis, Helicigona arbustorum (a number of exceed- 
ingly young examples), and AHyalinia cellaria. Melmerby 
Scars are Carboniferous Limestone, and foim part of the western 
slope of the Pennines, which a few miles further south cul- 
minate on Cross Fell. 
This record is practically a new one, and is certainly the 
first indisputably Cumberland record which has come under 
my notice. Miss Jane Donald (now Mrs. G. B. Longstaff), 
in her Cumberland lists of 1882 and 1885, mentioned that she 
had never met with this species in Cumberland, although 
its occurrence in the neighbouring county of Westmorland was 
well known. 
Last year Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson, F.G.S., of the Geological 
Department of the Manchester Museum, sent me a few specimens 
which he had detected in an old collection, labelled ‘ Penrith’ 
without evidence of any more precise localization. On the 
strength of these examples, I noted the species as a new 
one for Cumberland, but Mr. J. Davy Dean, of Lancaster, 
suggested to me that the record was uncertain as regards the 
county, and was just as likely to be Westmorland as Cum- 
berland, Penrith being close to the border-line, and old records 
being notoriously far from precise. Mr. Dean tells me that 
he knows the district well, and had never seen the species 
anywhere near that town, the geological formations there being 
nearly all sandstone. 
As regards the country east of Penrith this is quite accurate, 
but the Mountain Limestone comes quite close up on the west, 
in which direction M1. Jackson points out that there are 
various likely quarries in this limestone area near such places 
as Little Blencow, Johnby, Skelton, etc., which might possibly 
repay careful investigation for this species. So might other 
of the scars on the main Cross Fell 1ange, particularly on that 
mountain itself. 
Mr. Mason’s discovery, however, entirely sets at rest any 
question as to the existence of the species in Cumberland, 
and the place in which he has taken it is the most northerly 
point in Britain in which it has been observed. True it is, 
that there is a record by Captain Laskey, published so long 
Naturalist, 
