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H. virgata. One, immature, on a fence; it is pale yellowish, 



with indistinct bands. 

 H. rotundata. Very common. 

 H. pulchella var. costata. 

 Balea perversa. One at the base of an elm tree, with H. 



pulchella var costata. 

 Clausilia rugosa. Very abundant. 

 C. rugosa var. tumidula. One specimen. 

 Cochlicopa lubrica. Not very common. 

 Carychium minimum. Very abundant amongst damp 



rushes. 



Note on Helix obvoluta. — Mr. Jeffery, of Ratham, 

 having supplied me with two living H. obvoluta last autumn, I 

 have been much pleased by finding a host of young shells in 

 ' my snailery ' this summer. They vary in size from a pin's 

 head to the size of a half-grown obvoluta, thus, I suppose, re- 

 presenting two or three broods. I am feeding the little fellows 

 with dock leaves, plantain {Plantago major), dandelion [Leon- 

 todon taraxacum), and cabbage leaves. The dock leaves 

 present the appearance (after a day's feeding) of perforated 

 cardboard, so I conclude this is their favourite food. They 

 remain on the leaves on the surface of the earth and seem to 

 hide from the lights never crawling to the muslin top as our 

 ordinary II. aspersa, nemoralis, pomaiia, &c., do. In respect 

 to keeping below they resemble the Zonites. — Miss F. M. 

 Hele. 



Succinea oblonga in North Somersetshire. — 



Amongst some drift collected from the banks of the River 

 Brue, near Glastonbury, kindly sent me by Mr. O. Morland, 

 I have been fortunate in finding a single specimen of this 

 species in perfect condition. It is, I believe, new to Somerset- 

 shire. — Jno. W. Taylor, June 5th, 1886. 



J.C, v., July, 1886. 



