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and flags. Succinea piitris, found last summer in two localities in 

 Sutherland and one in Caithness. Besides the above I collected 

 many fresh water shells. 



In April, 1882, I found two beauties of Helix lamellata and 

 one pretty large H. aculeata, several Claiisilia rugosa, one Vertigo 

 which looks like inimitissima, two like V. edeniida, one dead Balia 

 perversa (which got smashed in the box on my way home) on a 

 large beech tree — all in Golspie Burn or stream near Dunrobin 

 Castle. I took the whole day examining one side of the stream. 

 I found besides what seems to me a Helix pygmcea. 



Since May, 1882, I have travelled over very near the whole 

 county of Sutherland and two parts of Ross-shire. From Forsi- 

 nard Railway Station I went north to the coast, and coasted and 

 doubled some of the many inlets to Durness, and then down to 

 Scourie and Unapool and crossed east from sea to sea to Invershin 

 Station and then home by rail, taking eight days altogether. As 

 a whole the route was poor in conchology. The east coast of the 

 Kyle of Tongue and the west shore of Loch Assynt are the only 

 good stations in West Sutherland, and about ten days at each 

 station would almost exhaust the list to be found. I had not the 

 good fortune to find Helix riipestris. I believe I have now one 

 Helix pygmcea from Tongue Wood and another from Golspie 

 Wood. H lamellata and aculeata I found in two different 

 localities in E. Sutherland. Biilimus obsciirus I found, first alive 

 at Rockfiel, south shore of Tarbetness, Cromarty, and lately at 

 two localities in E. Sutherland — one near the Ord of Caithness, so 

 I am almost sure it must extend along the east coast of Caithness. 

 Pupa viarginata I found lately at the roots of grass near the sea, 

 about three miles north of Brora; I had some dead ones before, 

 picked up at the roots of juniper bushes. Among a lot of Pupa 

 collected in 1881 in E. Sutherland and kept in tin boxes all 



J.C, iii., April, 1882 



