JOURNAL OF COXCHOLOGY. 



EIGG SHELLS: 



ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE LAND & FRESHWATER MOLLUSCA 

 OF THE ISLAND OF EIGG. 



By The REV. JOHN McMURTRIE, D.D. 



The List is authenticated by specimens, rvhich a7-e herennth presented 

 to the Musemn of the ConcJiological Society at Leeds. 



(Read before the Conchological Society. April 12, 1893). 



Since the paper was written which appeared in the ' Journal of 

 Conchology' for October, 1892 (vol. vii., pp. 113 — 119), the 

 writer has paid two visits to Eigg, in the summers of 1891 and 

 1892, and is now able to extend the List, adding ten species 

 and two or three varieties to the record for the island. 



Those which are new are marked with an asterisk (*). 

 *Pisidium fontinale Drap. A ditch in which the water does 



not dry up at Nead-na-Feannaig. Small stream at Houlin 



in the interior of the island. 

 *Pisidium pusillum Gmel. A few in small, not very wet, 



open grassy drain in lawn at Nead-na-Feannaig, living with 



Hyalitiia, Vertigo, Carychinm, etc. 

 Limnaea peregra van lineata Bean. Ditch, or small 



stream, not drying up, at Nead-na-Feannaig. It seems to 



have some of the characters of var. ovata. 

 *Limn8ea peregra var. A small form (none larger than 



those sent), abundant in pools close to the* sea, near the 



'Singing Sands,' west side of the island. It is less solid 



than var. maritima — seems near var. boissyi. 

 Limnaea peregra Mull. Small form, abundant in stream 



at Houlin, one mile from the sea. 

 Limnaea peregra Miill. Small form, in a rill running over 



steep rocks near the sea at the 'Singing Sands.' It is less 



inflated than the variety in the pools. 

 Limnaea peregra Miill. A small form in Kildonan Burn 



at Kiel, east side of Eigg. 



