JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 8 1 



Helix lactea in Yorkshire. — At the beginningof August, 

 1884, Mr. W. Storey, of Pateley Bridge, sent to Leeds a living 

 specimen of this fine Mediterranean species. It was found in 

 a field, near the railway at Pateley Bridge, by Mr. D. Kindon 

 some time before, and most probably it had been conveyed with 

 the shingle which is brought to Pateley from the coast. — Jno. 

 W. Taylor. 



Extension of the range of Pupa ringens Jeff. — 

 Mr. C. T. Musson, whose energy and success in working up 

 the mollusca of Notts, is so remarkable, has discovered this 

 species at Kirkby-in-Ashfield. The specimens were all taken 

 from twigs in a damp place in a wood about 450 feet above the 

 sea, and situate on the magnesian limestone formation. He 

 has also been fortunate in finding the same species at Whitney- 

 on-the-Wye, Herefordshire, in a dingle cut through beds of red 

 clay of varying hardness. The shells were all found on loose 

 wood and dead leaves in a damp place. — J. W. Taylor, 

 June nth, 1886. 



Helix obvoluta in Surrey. — It may be interesting to 

 many of your readers to learn that Helix obvoluta would appear 

 to be extending its habitat from Ditcham Woods, Hampshire 

 (the only place in England where it has hitherto been found), 

 to the adjoining county of Surrey ; for, during the past two 

 years and again in the month of May last, I have found some 

 half-a-dozen of the shells in the woods of Norbury Park, Surrey. 

 It is true that all of them were dead specimens lying on the 

 surface of the leaves from beech trees which had fallen in the 

 previous autumn, and although I searched diligently for living 

 representatives I have hitherto failed in finding any, still as 

 those discovered were in different ])arts of the wood, I feel con- 

 vinced the animal must have established itself in the neighbour- 

 hood. — -S. J. DaCosta, June 21st, 1886. 



