TAYLOR : TESTACELLA SCUTULUM IN RENFREWSHIRE. I15 



covered until the spring of 1888, when I was shown ten 

 of these shells which bore marks that the animals they 

 belonged to had died and decayed. These living Testacella 

 had been kept by my informant over five years before I 

 got the above notes. It may be observed that the above notes 

 lead to the belief that Testacella eat "vines and asters," whereas 

 they live on animals. On the morning of Frida}', 22nd of Feb- 

 ruary, 1889, I saw living specimens of Testacella brought into 

 the Paisley Free Museum, and some eggs of that species had 

 also been found, but these burst whilst in the man's hand. The 

 broken fragments of these ova were remarkable egg-shell like in 

 shape, with the inner surface glossy. Not a single ovum of this 

 collecting escaped unbroken. That same day I visited Kilnside 

 Gardens, from where they had been dug, and I found them 

 there in abundance. I also obtained ova of the species. Kiln- 

 side, I may say, is to the east of Paisley. These T. scntuliun 

 were about nine inches deep in the ground. When dug out 

 they were quite dormant, and showed little signs of moving. 

 After being kept for some hours in a large wide-mouthed glass 

 bottle, in a warm room, some of them began to creep about 

 slowly. Some days afterwards they were supplied with about 

 five inches of earth, in which they buried themselves, but many 

 of them lay against the glass of the bottle, among the earth, 

 after burying themselves. Last year, in the plot from which 

 they were dug, cabbages, peas, and cauliflowers were grown, 

 but these were little cut. Seeing that the specimens of Testa- 

 cella were dormant, the temperature of the soil on the 22nd 

 February, 1889, as taken at the Coats' Observatory, Paisley, is 

 given below : — 



3 inches deep. 12 inches deep. 22 inches deep. 



39.7°. ... 40.1°. ... 41-1°. 



The following is the mean temperature at the same depths, 

 as taken at the same Observatory, for the first four months 

 of 1888:— 



