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Another specimen (dead) was found by Mr. G. H. Taylor, at the 

 sanie spot in August, 1907, a note of which will appear in the 

 Society's Journal. Although the writer spent a considerable time 

 on several occasions, on rainy days, at the above spot, in the hope 

 of finding the snail, no success attended the efforts. It is quite 

 likely, as Mr. Jackson suggests, that it is an alien, and has been 

 introduced accidentally. 



Vitrea cellaria (Miiller). — A well distributed and plentiful 

 species where found ; seeming to exist in colonies on the ground, 

 in very damp places, at the roots of nettles, and beneath thick 

 matted moss at the foot of walls. One very thriving colony was 

 discovered in Hampsfell Road, among a patch of Sweet-scented 

 Coltsfoot (Petasites fragrans), some of the shells being of very fine 

 size. Another extensive colony exists in a small field, which lies 

 below the level of the road and is consequently very moist, on 

 the south-east side of Eggerslack Wood, on the Windermere Road. 

 The snails from these two colonies were regarded by the writer at 

 first as V. lucida, but were submitted to Messrs. Jackson and Standen 

 of the Manchester Museum, who pronounced them to be V. eel/aria 

 var. ? 



On September 14th, 1907, a party of conchologists was con- 

 ducted to the field near Eggerslack Wood, by Mr. G. H. Taylor, 

 who with the writer had explored the field in August, 1906. 

 Specimens were found, carefully examined, and after much dis- 

 cussion, were declared, "subject to dissection," to be V. liicida. 

 The dissection has settled the point in favour of V. cellaria. 



The shells are very fine specimens indeed, and the colour of 

 the animal — a very dark blue, almost as dark as some of the 

 animals of V. bicida from the north of Ireland — is exactly similar 

 to specimens of V. lucida, found by the writer some years ago at 

 Ilfracombe, in North Devon. As these Grange shells are so very 

 different from the usual form of V. cellaria, may I suggest that it 

 may be an intermediate variety, connecting the two species, liicida 

 and cellaria ? At any rate, it is such a distinctive form of V. cellaria 

 that it is worthy of being ranked as a variety. To my mind, it is 

 quite as worthy of a varietal name as Vallonia excentrica is of being 

 called a separate species. 



Hampsfell Road ; Grange Fell Road ; Kirkhead ; The Hospice ; 

 Eggerslack Wood and vicinity ; Low Meathop ; Humfrey Head 

 (J.W.J, and C.H.M.),/ of C, vol. 1 1, p. 45 ; Lindale Road (J.W.J.), 

 /. 0/ C, vol. II, p. 361 ; Lindale (VV.U.R.),/ of C, vol. 4, P- SM- 

 var. compacta Jeffreys. — Since writing the above notes on 

 V. cellaria, Mr. Jackson has favoured me with the following in- 

 teresting points on this shell. " This is the form which is so 



