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are few and commonplace, with the exception of some very 

 deeply coloured H. eiicetoruin var. deleta at Roxton, Beds. 



All along the route the comparative scarcity oi H. rotundata 

 particularly struck me. 



Most of the country traversed being arable land, cattle 

 ponds, so plentiful and fruitful in some counties, Cheshire and 

 Lancashire to wit, were very scarce, and as the subsoil was 

 almost universally gravel and flint the dearth of roadside stones 

 to overturn is not surprising. 



The eastern counties should, I think, produce an abun- 

 dance of slugs, but owing to the dry weather during my search 

 my records are comparatively uninteresting. 



Guernsey Dredging. — Among some interesting shells 

 dredged off Guernsey last summer by Mr. Clifford Burkill was a 

 very fine Chiton hmileyi, in about eighteen fathoms, off the south- 

 east point of that island. This is a northern species, but has 

 been once recorded from Plymouth by Mr. H. K. Jordan. In 

 company with this Chiton, were several perfect, but dead, ex- 

 amples of Argiope decol/ata, which has not, I believe, been 

 taken since Dr. Jeffreys dredged it in. the same spot nearly 

 thirty years ago, although Mr Burkill found it also at the Scilly 

 Isles in 1888, and recorded it in the ' Journal of Conchology ' 

 at the time. Among other notable species existing on the same 

 ground were Argiope cistelhda^ some very fine Aclis gulsonce, 

 Odostomia iiiini??ia, O. hikisi, O. diaphana, and O. conspiciia, an 

 exceedingly fine O. obliqiia and Cerithiopsis metaxff, with many 

 things of lesser note. Collecting on the shore at Herm corro- 

 borated my experience of the previous year, that Galeomma 

 turtoni are being exterminated, not only by over-collecting, but 

 also by the persistent and indiscriminate stone-turning of the 

 ormer-gatherers, which gives the Galeomma a poor chance of 

 arriving at maturity. — J. T. Marshall. 



J.C, vi., Oct., 1890. 



