254 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



RE-DISCOVERY OF 



HELIX FUSCA AND HELIX LAMELLATA 



IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE. 



By THOS. F. burrows, M.C.S. 



(Read before the Conchological Society, March 5th, 1890). 



I have recently been fortunate enough to find both these 

 species in North Staffordshire : Helix fuscn (Mont.) in a small 

 wood at the foot of the Weaver Hills near Ramsor, on the ist 

 of December, whilst searching for Zonites. The food plant 

 here appears to be the Common Campion {Lyclmis dioica). All 

 the specimens taken were found on the leaves of the Campion 

 or upon the I^ead-Nettlc stalks lying over them. I may also 

 mention the remarkable similarity between the shells of this 

 species and the dead seed-capsules of the Campion when wet. 

 Mr. J. R. B. Masefield (of Cheadle) has also noticed the same 

 likeness, often mistaking the empty capsules for the shells. 



On February 8th I accidentally found Helix lamellata Jeff, 

 in Cotton Dale (the locality mentioned by Mr. Garner in his 

 Natural History of Staffordshire) by picking up a handful of 

 beech leaves, as I was walking through the dale with Mr. Mase- 

 field. The first handful yielded two specimens ; two hours' 

 work only produced two more. My friend had only just re- 

 marked that we must give up all hope of finding H. lamellata, 

 both of us having spent days in a fruitless search for it. I have 

 since taken fourteen specimens in the same locality. 

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Helix lamellata at Stafford. — On looking over my 

 collection the other day I found a specimen of this species 

 (recently re-discovered in Staffordshire by Mr. Burrows, of 

 Cheadle), which I must have taken at Stafford. It is an 

 immature, dead, and worn specimen, which I had mistaken for 

 H. pygmcea. It must have been taken in 1886 or 1887, either 

 in the high hedge banks of Burford Lane, or by the road-side 

 in a wood at Tillington. Both localities are within a mile of 

 Stafford, and should be searched for more specimens. — Lionel 

 E. Adams, Penistone, May iglli, i8go. 



. (Read Ijefore Conchological Society, July Snd, JAW. 



J.C., vi., July, 1S90. 



