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the varieties exhibit these two forms. Forbes and Hartley's figures 

 (7 and 8, pi. 72) represent the female, and f. 9 the male form. 

 Specimens occasionally occur in which transverse striae are plainly 

 observable under the epidermis, but they are not sufficiently cha- 

 racteristic to merit a varietal name. My var. plicata was founded on 

 abraded specimens of this form. The young may be distinguished 

 from those of L. pjllidula by the striae ; the latter are smooth. A 

 dwarf form from Torbay, Mayo, and Iona, does not exceed a line in 

 length and breadth, and a dwarf of the var. expansa is smaller still. 



Var. conica Jeffr. — Brora (Baillie) ! Guernsey ; Torbay ; Mayo ; 

 Barra. An extreme or monstrous form of this variety, from Dornoch 

 Frith, has an elongated spire, equalling that of L. divaricala, and it 

 could pass for either species. This may be L. albella Lov., which is 

 described as intermediate between L. puteolus and L. divaricata. 



Var. auricularis Mont. — River Moy, co. Mayo (Miss Warren) ! 



Var. clausa Jeffr. — Found everywhere occasionally with the type. 



Var. expansa Jeffr. — Guernsey; Penzance; Weymouth; Killala 

 Bay. 



L. pallidula DaCosta. — This is much given to sport. As in the 

 last species, it has two forms denoting the sexes, one having a raised 

 and the other a depressed spire. The former is the male, and is 

 shaped as var. neritoidea, but is larger. Many of the Guernsey speci- 

 mens have the canal and umbilicus partially and sometimes entirely 

 closed. 



As in many other instances, Jeffreys' type figure is quite different 

 from Sowerby's ; the latter would do for the var. patula but for the 

 umbilicus, and the former I consider the shell of the male. Forbes 

 and Hanley's are right. 



Var. neritoidea A. Gd. — Guernsey; Torbay ; Tenby ; Grooms- 

 port ; Sutherlandshire. A dwarf of this from Guernsey, living in 

 Chondrus crispus, is only a line in length. 



Var. patula Thorpe. — Smaller. Herm Island ; Falmouth. 



Var. albescens Jeffr. — Canal nearly closed in the adult. Tenby 

 (Span) ! Torquay. 



Var. naticiformis Marshall {J. Conch., vol. 7, p. 250). — 

 Foch Spelve (A. Brown) ; Guernsey. Captain Brown described 

 another globose form, " found by General Bingham at Dunbar," as 

 L. retusa ; it is not this, but apparently an immature shell. 



[To be continued]. 



Helix aspersa m. sinistrorsum at Lewes. — I took two examples of this 

 shell in my garden on 13th May. They were three-quarters grown, dead specimens, 

 and very bleached, and were found lying within six inches of each other. — 

 C. H. Morris, Lewes {Read before the Society, June 26th, 1897). 



