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ANNUAL MEETING.— NOTICE TO MEMBERS 



The Annual Meeting will be held at the Manchester Museum, 

 on Saturday, October 16, and members who intend to exhibit are 

 requested to furnish particulars and amount of space required to 

 Mr. R. Standen, Manchester Museum, without delay. 



It is absolutely necessary that those who wish to be present at the 

 Tea should send word beforehand to Mr. Jackson at the Museum. 



The inconvenience caused by those who neglect this elementary 

 courtesy is very considerable. 



Tentacular Abnormality in Helix nemoralis.— On April 25th of this year 

 I found at Brook, near ..\shford, in Kent, a specimen of Helix nemoralis with 

 curiously deformed tentacles. The upper pair are conjunct for half their length, 

 thus forming a fork, like the letter Y. The lower tentacles are even more abnormal. 

 For where the right tentacle would normally be, there is a kind of irregular repro- 

 duction of the upper fork, the right prong being much bigger than the left one ; 

 both these prongs possess the characteristics of tentacles. On the other hand, 



where the left tentacle would normally be, there is a small protuberance, which 

 only resembles a tentacle in that it is somewhat retractile. This is the only feature 

 not shown in the drawing, whicli is x 3. In all other respects the snail is appar- 

 ently quite a normal five-banded example. Mr. J. W. Taylor informs me that he 

 has not observed this abnormality in H. nemoralis before ; so I think it should be 

 recorded. — A. J. Akkeli, (Read before the Society, June 9th, 1915). 



A New Variety of Columbella misera Sow. from Japan.— I have recently 

 received from Mr. Hirase, of Kyoto, specimens of a very pretty form, which I 

 assign to this species, and which seems to deserve a varietal name. I therefore 

 propose to call it Columbella misera var. nigromaculata nov. The shell is almost 

 or quite pure white, with a single peripheral band of interrupted black spots — one 

 spot on each of the longitudinal ribs. The band occurs on each of the last three 

 or four whorls, and the spots vary somewhat in size and intensity in different speci- 

 mens. I have one example in which they have coalesced to form a fairly broad, 

 continuous band. The variety comes from Oshima, Osumi. — J. R. le B. Tomlin 

 [Read before the Society, June 9th, 191 5). 



