JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 65 



PROCEEDINGS of the CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting, 



HELD MARCH 29TH, 1 883. 



The Chair was occupied by Mr. J. W. Taylor. Minutes 

 of February meeting were read and approved. 



PAPER READ. 



Description of a New Variety of Limax agrestis^ viz. : — 

 L. agrestis var. nigra — by Mr. J. D. Butterell. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



A number of curiously distorted specimens of LimncBa 

 peregra from a pond near Castleford, by Mr. W. Nelson. 



A series of the Land and Freshwater Shells of the neigh- 

 bourhood of Chersley near Aylesbury, was shown on behalf of 

 the Rev. H. H. Slater, M.A., F.Z.S., of Chersley Vicarage. 

 They included about 22 species — mostly water shells from the 

 River Thame, in the parish nlentioned — and amongst them 

 were Palndina contecta, Limncea auricularia and Helix eoncinna. 

 As there does not appear ever to have been published any lists 

 or even scattered notices of the moUuscan fauna of Buckingham- 

 shire, Mr. Slater's note and specimens, fragmentary as both are, 

 furnish a basis from which to commence investigations, and 

 form an acceptable first instalment towards an authenticated 

 county list. 



A small collection of the shells of the Driffield district, 

 including about 17 species and varieties of aquatic and 27 or 

 more of terrestrial moUusca, was shown for Mr. L. B. Ross, 

 F.C.S.j of Driffield. On behalf of Mr. Ross were also shown 

 various species of marine mollusca and slides of teeth and jaws. 



Mr. J. W. Cundall sent for exhibition the following:— 

 Bulimus aciitus — Courtown, co. Wexford; Burnham Somersets.; 

 Brampton and Woolacombe, N. Devon; St. Ives and Penzance, 

 . Cornwall. Plmiorbis corneiis — Kenn Moor, Somerset. Limncea 

 stagnalis — Kenn Moor, Somerset; River Frome, Gloucestershire. 

 Carychium minimum — Leigh Woods, Somerset.; Blaise Castle, 

 Gloucestershire ; Dudley Castle. Helix rupestris — Leigh Woods ; 



