JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 151 



PROCEEDINGS of the CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting, 



HELD OCTOBER 4TH, 1883. 



Mr. J. W. Taylor presided. Minutes of the previous 

 Meeting were read and approved. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



The Chairman showed specimens from Mr. C. Ashford, 

 including the following -.—Helix aspersa monst. sinistrorsum 

 from Christchurch ; var. albofasciata from Carisbrook Castle; 

 var. exalbida from Dorking ; var. grisea from Torquay ; a white 

 specimen of Helix rufescens with depressed spire measuring 

 10x4 mm. from Ventnor ; a specimen of H. virgata with 

 spire produced, measuring lo x lo mm. from Earith, Hunts. ; 

 a large example of Zonites cellarius from Christchurch measuring 

 10 X 5 mm.; also var. albida of the same species from the same 

 locality; a singularly deformed example of Succinea elegans 

 from the River Lea, at Tottenham, Middlesex; and Ancyliis 

 lacustris var. albida, from the River Stour, at Christchurch. Mr. 

 Taylor also showed a series of the darts of British Helices 

 prepared by Mr. Ashford in illustration of the very valuable 

 papers by him on the subject which are appearing in the 

 Journal of Conchology. He also exhibited a collection of Land 

 and Freshwater shells from Laugharne, in Carmarthenshire, 

 sent by Mr. C. Jeffery. 



On behalf of Mr. Edward Collier were shown Helix 

 Carthaginiensis, found alive on the moor at Cardiff, by Mr. F. 

 Wotton, along with a few dead shells of the same species ; and 

 H lactea (also shown), evidently introduced with ballast, as 

 Mr. Collier thinks Helix villoma was. 



Mr. W. D. Roebuck exhibited specimens of Testacella 

 Maugei var. viridans from the County of Waterford, Ireland, 

 sent together with an almost complete set of the slugs of the 

 same district, by Mr. J. H. Salter, of Newtown, in that county. 



