2l6 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



The Chairman showed some specimens of Testacella halio- 

 tidea var. scutuluin which Mr. R. A. Rolfe had found in his 

 garden at Kew, Surrey, and which had been sent by Mr. C. T. 

 Musson, who stated that Mr. Rolfe had several times seen an 

 odd specimen in the garden, and that, setting to work one 

 evening, he dug up six in about a square yard of ground. They 

 also occur in the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. With these 

 specimens was sent another (also exhibited) which Mr. Rolfe 

 had found in 1878 at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire. This 

 last specimen was much larger than the Kew specimens, some of 

 the latter, however, being quite juvenile examples. 



The chairman also mentioned that Mr. W. B. Waterfall, of 

 Bristol, had sent him a collection of slugs from that place, which 

 among others included a large number of Amalia marginata ; 

 also that Mr. W. Baillie had sent an extensive consignment from 

 the Dunbeath River, Caithness, including Liinax Icevis and 

 numerous examples of L. arborum, besides the commoner 

 species. 



At a committee meeting held on the 19th June it was 

 decided that the meetings should henceforth be held in the 

 Leeds Mechanics' Institution, on the first Thursday of each 

 month. 



Bulimus acutus var. elongata Cr. and Jan. in 

 England. — Among some Bulimus acutus collected at the 

 Needles, Isle of Wight, and kindly sent me by Mr. E. Westlake, 

 F.G.S., of Fordingbridge, were several of this variety, which is 

 distinguished from the type by its more slender form. Dr. Jeffreys 

 in his excellent work gives the average dimensions of the typical 

 form as 15 mill, long and 5 mill, in diameter. The measure- 

 ment of these specimens is 22 mill, in length by 5 in diameter. — 

 J. W. Taylor, March, 1884. 



J.C, iv., July, 1884. 



