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apex they are of normal size and strength. Similarly the apex is white and gradu- 

 ally becomes tinted. I am unable to trace any definite demarcation between the 

 nepionic and post-nepionic whorls. In one example at the point, viz., the 9th 

 whorl from the base, where atrophy would normally occur, the riblets suddenly 

 become very faint and low, as if rubbed, for about one-third of a whorl. This por- 

 tion is somewhat glossy and in parts whitish, owing apparently to the plug or 

 septum shining through the shell sul«tance {Read before the Socieiy, Sept. loth, 

 1913).— G. C. Spence. 



Repotted Occurrence of Helicigona lapicida (Linne) and Ena montana 

 (Drap. ) in Ireland. — Hitherto tlie \n'i\\x&coii\'s, ol Helicigona lapicida have been 

 looked upon with suspicion. In his " Monograph," part 19, page 415, Mr. J. W. 

 Taylor says :— " Dr. Leach in his Synopsis, published in 1852, describes this 

 species as not uncommon in the south of Ireland ; but this is apparently quite 

 erroneous, as the only ascertainable, though incorrect, records appear to be that 

 by Brown in i8l8, who ascribed Belfast as a locality on the authority of Dr. Mc- 

 donnell, but that gentleman's specimens were English ones ; and by Dr. Turton, 

 who stated that specimens had been ' found by Mrs. Travers of Belgrove on the 

 stone steps of her mansion at Cove,' Cork. It was included by Mr. J. E. Palmer 

 in a list of captures in Kildare during 1884, and according to Thompson was intro- 

 duced into the vicinity of Limerick in 1839." However, a few days ago Mr. E. 

 Dukinfield Jones gave me several specimens of H. lapicida which he himself picked 

 up at Carrick-a-Bric Castle, Fermoy, Co. Cork, in 1871, where, he says, the species 

 was very common. Mr. Jones is of the opinion that Turton's record from Cove is 

 probably correct. With the H. lapicida were specimens of Ena nionlana, which 

 Mr. Jones is nearly sure were found by him witli the other species at Fermoy, but 

 after a lapse of forty-two years he will not speak positively. Moreover, he has never 

 collected shells in England, and has not been presented with them, so that it is 

 difficult to imagine where else they can have come from. — I>ionel E. Ad/VMS, 

 B.A. [Read before the Society, Nov. I2th, 1913). 



Helicigona lapicida (Linne) in Ireland. — Since receiving the above note from 

 Mr. L. E. Adams, I have been in communication with Mr. R. A. Phillips, of Ash- 

 burton, Cork, and he has kindly been over to Fermoy specially to see if this old 

 record is true. He writes me that he was there on Satm-day last, Nov. 8th,. and 

 was successful in finding two dead specimens and three living ones of this species. 

 They were near the old ruins of Carrick-a-Bric Castle, under stones, associated with 

 Helix riifescens, H. Iiispida, Pupa cylindracea, Hyalinia ccilaria, etc. The speci- 

 mens were all in a very small area, a few \ ards square, and he could find none 

 elsewhere in the district. He saw no signs of the other reported species, Ena 

 montana, but perhaps at a more favoiu'able time of the year he might be more suc- 

 cessful. Farther investigation will be necessary to prove whether H. lapicida is 

 native to the district or not, and he hopes to work the surrounding woods for both 

 species during the next s]3ring and summer. — Edward Collier {Read before the 

 Society, Nov. 12th, 191 3). 



Paludestrina jenkinsi in Cambridg-eshire. — On August 4th, 1912, I found 

 this species in a small pond on the bank of the tidal Nene at Guyhirne, where it was 

 associated with Bithyuia teutaciclata. It does not appear to have been recorded 

 hitherto for Cambridgeshire. — Chas. Oldiiku {Read before the Society , INIarch 12th, 

 1913). [No'iE.-This species in its uncarinated form was sent to Mr. Fred Taylor 

 in lune, 1909, liy Mr. Hugh Watson, who had taken it at Wisl.iech. — W. D.R.J. 



