SCOTT: MOLLUSCA OF LINDORES' LOCH. 1 75 



L. auricularia (L.). This appeared to be one of the com- 

 monest species in the loch, but the majority of the specimens 

 were immature. 



L. palustris (Miill.). Not unfrequent. 



Ancylus lacustris (L). Rather scarce. 



Succinea putris (L.). Frequent, but mostly immature. 



These were all I noticed, but if the molluscan fauna was 

 carefully worked up, doubtless other species would be added to 

 the list here given. 



The habitat given in Jeffrey's 'British Conchology' forvar. 

 lacustris of L. peregra is ' mountain lakes ' in Zetland, 

 Scotland, Ireland, and the North of England ; but Lindores' 

 Loch has no great elevation above sea level; in this case, how- 

 ever, the habitat may be exceptional. 



After leaving Lindores' Loch I walked to Cupar, thence to 

 St. Andrews, Anstruther, St. Monance, Elie, Largo, and on to 

 Markinch — famed for big cabbages and early butterflies, as well 

 as for other marvels both animal and vegetable — where I got on 

 board a railway carriage, and reached home within a few hours 

 thereafter. Between St. Monance and Largo I kept by the shore, 

 and it is a most interesting stretch of shore, geologically, 

 botanically and otherwise; parts of it can only be traversed when 

 the tide is out, and, even then, in some places, as at Kincraig, 

 between Elie and Largo, it is with considerable difficulty and 

 even danger that progress can be made, but the prospects that 

 open out now and again as one scrambles along far more than 

 repays all the toil. 



On the sandy links to the east of Elie, Helix nemoralis L. 

 was exceedingly abundant, the majority of the shells being 

 unicoloured, of all shades from almost white to yellow, brown, 

 and nearly black, but the lighter shades were the most common, 

 H. ericetorum Miill. was also of frequent occurence as well as the 

 variety alba Charp. of the same species. 



