JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY, VOL. 9, NO. 4, OCTOBER, I! 



On a broken wall opposite the school-house Balea perversa was found in fair 

 quantities as well as : — 



Helix concinna Jeffr. , l H. rotundata Mull. 



A pleasant walk over the high ground, broken by a halt at a farm-house for 

 refreshments, led to the Worth Wood, where an examination of the fallen logs and 

 branches and the moss covering the stones yielded : — 



Avion ater L. , 

 A. ater var. rufa, 

 A. circumscriptus Johnst. , 

 A. hortensis Fer., 

 Agriolimax ag rest is L., 

 Limax maximus L., 

 Hyalinia cellaria Mull., 

 H. crystallina Mull., 

 H. alliaria Miller, 

 Also from a pond near Worth Wood :- 

 Limncea glabra Mull. , 



H. radiatula Aid., 



Helix nemoralis L. (rubella 00000) 



H. arbustorum L. , 



H. concinna Jeffr., 



H. fusca and var. alba, 



Clausilia perversa Pult., 



C. lam i ?iat a Mont., 



Vitrina pellncida Mull. 



L. peregra Mull. 



At Ramsor Quarry, near the southern extremity of the wood, which was next 

 visited, the following species were discovered either under stones or crawling on the 

 face of the cliff : — 



Hyalinia nitidula Drap. , 

 Helix rotundata Mull., 

 H. rupestris Drap., 

 //. hispida L. , 

 //. caperata Mont., 

 H. nemoralis L., 



H. nemoralis var. castanea and 



var. libellula, 

 Buliminus obscurus Mull., 

 B. obscurus var. albina, 

 Pupa cylindracea Da Costa, 

 Clausilia perversa Pult. 



The last locality to be examined was Cotton Dale, just above Oakamoor, where 

 the following were collected mostly among the dried leaves under the beech trees : — 



Hyalinia alliaria Miller, 

 H. fulva Miill., 

 H. radiatula Aid., 



Helix rufescens Penn. 

 H. aculeata Miill., 

 H. lamellata Jeffr. 



The arrival at Oakamoor was so timed as to allow of a pleasant re-union round 

 the tea-table, where a comparison of notes on the events of the day formed an 

 agreeable sauce to a substantial meal, after which the party separated with expres- 

 sions of cordial gratitude to the President for the successful way in which he had 

 organised and carried out the expedition. 



Papers Read. 



" Observations on Limncea peregra" by A. G. Stubbs. 



" Note on Valvata cristata," by J. E. Cooper. 



" Paludestrina jenkinsi Smith in two new Irish localities," by L. E. Adams. 



" Arion ater v. rubra Baud., new to Britain," by L. E. Adams. 



" New county records for Ireland," by R. Welch. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. Chas. Oldham : A very large specimen of Limax cinereo-niger var. 

 luctuosa Moq. , from Taxal, Cheshire. 



By Mr. J. R. Hardy : A remarkable scalariform Planorbis spirorbis, kindly lent 

 by the Vernon Park Museum, Stockport, for exhibition at this meeting. It was 

 collected by Mr. James Walkden in one of the famous " twenty pits " at Moss Side, 

 in 1864. These pits have long been filled up and built upon. The shell is of a 

 most unusual trochoid form. 



