170 ASHFORD : ON THE DARTS OF BRITISH HELICID^. 



slightly salient blades rise gradually above the basal expansion 

 and converge towards the point. Their outer margins are some- 

 what thickened. I have not detected an annulus. 



Mr. W. Robinson kindly sent me a considerable number 

 of living specimens from Scarborough, at the beginning of 

 August, but the shells were scarcely mature, and their sacs with- 

 out darts. Other examples obligingly forwarded by Mr. S. A. 

 Stewart of Belfast, in the following September, were fully grown 

 and yielded several darts. 



The illustrations are from the Irish specimens. 



Obituary.— R. M. Lloyd. 



It is our painful duty to record the death of Mr. Richard 

 Mosley Lloyd, at his residence. Spring Hill, Birmingham, on 

 Saturday, February i6th, after a few days illness. 



Mr. Lloyd will be remembered by conchologists as having 

 added two new and well-marked varieties to the British moUus- 

 can fauna, viz., Paludina vivipara var. atro-purpurea, and 

 Plafiorbis glaber var. compressa, as also by his contributions to 

 various natural history publications. Of late he had given more 

 attention to microscopic work. 



All who knew him will lament the loss of a warm-hearted 

 and honest man, kind, indulgent and forbearing, simple-minded, 

 yet clever in much of this world's knowledge, never obtrusive, 

 ever ready to do a kind action, not seeking reward. 



The writer, to whom he was a constant companion for more 

 than twenty years, mourns the loss of a true, gentle, and genuine 

 friend, and his sorrowing family a tender guardian, whose care 

 was always for the welfare and happiness of those he loved, and 

 who never spared himself in doing that which he thought worthy 

 of his hand. 



For many years Mr. Lloyd was one of the engineers to the 

 Water Department of Birmingham, an office he held at his death, 

 and wherein his upright character made him much respected. — 

 G. S. T., February 21st, 1884. 



* J.C, iv., April, X884. 



