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This species I find has also been recorded (under the name 

 Cyprcea vinosa Gmelin) by Dr. Ph. Dautzenberg {Journ. de Conchy- 

 liologie, vol. liv., 1906, p. 260, text-figs, i and 2) from the Franco- 

 Merovingian Necropolis of Nesles-lez-Verlincthun (Canton de Samer). 

 Dr. Dautzenberg also refers in the same paper to a record by M. 

 I'Abbe Henri Debout of the presence of this shell (erroneously 

 referred to C. arahica) in a sepulchre at Tardinghen, and from Dr. 

 Tiberi's Memoir on the shells met with in the excavations at Pom- 

 peii (Z(r Conchiglie Fotnpeiane, Napoli, 1879), we learn that many 

 examples of this species were found, and that the shell in question 

 was an amulet which the women carried in order to prevent sterility. 

 The ladies attached as much value to this beautiful exotic shell as 

 to Cyprcea pirum and C. lurida from the Gulf of Naples, which were 

 utilised in the same manner by the women of the lower class. 



Dr. Dautzenberg further states that, if the tomb from which comes 

 the shell figured by him is that of a woman, we should be justified in 

 assuming that the tradition which was current at Pompeii survived 

 up to the Middle Ages. 



As mentioned previously, the examples recorded by Faussett were 

 found in Saxon women's graves. This significant fact would point 

 to the same persistence of ideas. 



[Note. — Cyprma pantherina is still found from time to time in some 

 numbers in the more recent excavations at Pompeii. — Ed.]. 



Additions to the MoUusca of South Devon and the Record of a New 

 LocaUty for Uncommon Species in North Devon. ^During a short visit to 

 Chagford in May, 1911, I met with the type of Vitrea radiatula Alder as well as 

 the var. viridula Menke. A specimen of the former was also taken at Post Bridge. 

 This appears to be a new record for South Devon. Other forms of interest found 

 at the same time were: — Zonitoides nituins Miill., sxid Helix ho7-tensis MK\\\. var. 

 coalita Moq., both at Chagford. Since Helicigona arbtistorum L. a.nA Hygroniia 

 fusca Mont., are both somewhat rare in North Devon, the record of a new locality 

 for them may be of some interest. In September, 1910, I found both species on 

 the banks of the Exe, near Bampton. The latter was alive, but the former had 

 been broken by some animal, probably a thrush. — M. Jane Longstaff (Read 

 before the Society, Jan. loth, 1912). 



