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Acme lineata and var. alba ; Carychium minimum ; Hyalinia fulva ; Helix 

 lamellata ; Clausilia perversa var. ; Pupa cylindrica, from Kenmare and Killarney ; 

 also very fine Hyalinia nitida, from Canal Bank, Stafford. 



By Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill : Miti-a rhodinosphcera Melv., from Mauritius ; and 

 M. rhodochroa Herv. 



A fine series of Cypraa captd-serpentis L. and its varieties anguis Phil. , and 

 cohibri Kenyon, were exhibited in illustration of Mr. Melvill's papers. These were 

 from the collections, respectively, of Messrs. Melvill, Darbishire, Williams, Standen, 

 Hardy, Heathcote, Rogers, and Cairns. Specimens, including the type, of C. caput- 

 draconis Melv. were also shown by Messrs. Melvill, Williams, and Standen. 



By Mr. Alfred Sich : A living Helix virgata monst. sub-scalariforme, from 

 Churston Ferrers, South Devon. 



Pupa anglica Fer. var. alba no v. — Whilst away in July last, at the Irish Field 

 Clubs Union Conference at Kenmare, County Kerry, I collected as many of the 

 shells of the district as the very dry weather would allow. From Mucksna Wood, 

 Kenmare, I brought back a large bag of moss shakings and dead leaves. On look- 

 ing over this on my return home I found along with other shells a considerable 

 number of Pupa anglica Fer., and amongst them four specimens, two of which 

 were immature, of a pure white variety. As all the other British Pupce have 

 acknowledged white varieties, I propose to call this one var. alba. All the speci- 

 mens I got were alive, and when the animal was crawling it was all pure white 

 with the exception that when the tentacles were extended the eyes shewed as vivid 

 black spots. I hear from my friend, Mr. R. Welch, of Belfast, that he found one 

 specimen of this same variety amongst dead and very damp beech leaves on the mar- 

 gin of a wide drain in the demesne at Caledon, County Tyrone, on February 12th, 

 1897. Mr. J. Ray Hardy also told me that he had collected this same variety some 

 sixteen years ago near Killarney, but although my friend Dr. Chaster and I looked 

 very carefully for them we did not succeed in finding any, but I am glad to say that 

 Mr. Lionel E. Adams and Mr. Stubbs, who visited Killarney in September, were 

 fortunate enough to discover the locality, and found this variety in considerable 

 numbers. — Edward Collier. {Read before the Society, Nov. 9th, 189S). 



Discovery of a Physa new to Britain. — On July 19th in a pool at the west 

 side of Birmingham, I found some rather large Physa:, and on comparing them 

 later with some American forms, they seemed to me very similar to Physa heteros- 

 tropha. I sent some to my old friend, Mr. W. Nelson, who wrote at once saying 

 that he thought they were Physa heterostropha Say, but expressed a wish to see living 

 specimens before deciding for certain. I then sent him some alive, and he placed 

 them at the disposal of Mr. J. W. Taylor, who from the digitations of the mantle, 

 so unlike that of Physa fontinalis, fully confirmed our opinions as to the identity of 

 the species. Some of the shells measured 18 mm. long and 11 mm. wide, varying 

 in the length of the spine, and some have the lip much expanded. They were fairly 

 plentiful in company with Limncea peregra. — J. Madison. {Read before the Society, 

 Nov. 9th, 1898). 



Note on Mitra (Pusia) rhodochroa Hervier and M. rhodinosphaera Melv. 

 — -These two are identical, and M. Hervier has unfortunately overlooked the descrip- 

 tion of M. 7-hodinosphcera {J. Conch., vol. 5, p. 286, pi. ii., fig. 23, 1887). The 

 original type came from Mauritius, but, as Mr. Standen and I pointed out in our 

 papers on the Loyalty Islands mollusca, many Mauritian species find their way to 

 Lifu ; M. eximia Reeve is an instance of this. — J. Cosmo Melvill {Read before 

 the Society, Dec. 14th, 1898). 



