176 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



Clausilia rugosa and Balea perversa in Had- 

 dingtonshire. — While spending a few hours on the sea-braes 

 at Canty Bay, near North Berwick, on the ist inst., I observed 

 Clausilia rugosa in abundance on and about the rocks which 

 here and there protrude through the grassy slopes. I picked a 

 handful, which, on counting, I find consists of 180 specimens, 

 and I could easily have gathered many times that number had 

 I wished. Seeing that Mr McMurtrie in his paper on the 

 Land and Freshwater Shells of the neighbourhood of North 

 Berwick makes special mention of the fact that he had not 

 found Clausilia rugosa there the record may be of interest. 

 Along with the ClausilicB there were a few examples of Balea 

 perversa, a species also absent from Mr, McMurtrie's list. — 

 William Evans, Edinburgh, June nth, 1889. 



Helix aspersa monst. sinistrorsum Taylor, in 

 Lancashire. — At the October meeting of the Manchester 

 Branch I had the pleasure of exhibiting a fine living specimen 

 of this rare form, taken during the visit of the Society to 

 Whalley on Whit-Monday of the present year. It was picked 

 from the wall in Whalley Churchyard by a lad (not one of our 

 party), and obtained from him by my friend Mr. F. C. Long, 

 who had the first chance of it, and who very generously handed 

 it over to me. When taken it was a half-grown shell, of normal 

 colouring, and has since developed into a handsome mature 

 specimen, having, as may be imagined, been cherished and 

 pampered with every conceivable vegetable delicacy likely to 

 tempt its palate. Its generous feeding seems to have influenced 

 the growth and colouration of the shell, which has assumed a 

 more rotund figure than it would probably have attained if it 

 had been allowed to grow up amongst its native nettles, and the 

 completed portion is a rich and uniform black colour, showing 

 a striking contrast to the ordinary mottlings of the apical whorls. 

 As being the first specimen of sinistral form known to have 

 been taken in Lancashire, it of course possesses a peculiar 

 interest to those of us who were, so to speak, in at the capture 

 of it ! I purpose allowing it to breed, if it will be so obliging, 

 and, without being too sanguine as to the result of the experi- 

 ment, I am not unhopeful that some at least of its progeny 

 may prove as contrary as itself. — R. Standen, Manchester. 



J.C., vi., Jan., 1890. 



