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abundant all through North and West Lancashire, and by reason 

 of its large size and blue animal, was mistaken for V. lucida by 

 many collectors (the writer included). I dissected about a dozen 

 examples from Grange (collected in September, 1907), to see if 

 they were cellaria or lucida, and they turned out to belong to cellaria. 

 The genitalia are quite different from those of V. lucida, and no 

 one could make a mistake between the two. Mr. A. S. Kennard 

 (Proc. Mai. Soc, 8, March, 1908), has just made this large form 

 of V. cellaria (var. compacta ?), into a new species, Vitrea schar-ffi. 

 He (Kennard) has seen all my specimens, and named them such. 

 They certainly differ from true V. cellaria in colour of animal, and 

 the bright glossy amber-coloured large shell." Vide Taylor's Mono- 

 graph, vol. 3, p. 37. Meathop Fell (J.W.J.),y". of C, vol. 12, p. 115. 



Vitrea alliaria (Miller). — A fairly abundant and widely dis- 

 tributed species in the district ; very common in Eggerslack Wood. 

 When turning over and scraping among the dead leaves and refuse on 

 the ground, the presence of this snail was revealed by the strong 

 smell of garlic which the animal emitted, and it invariably turned 

 up after a short search. Very slight irritation seems to cause the 

 snail to give off the powerful, and to some people, disagreeable 

 odour. I have more than once noticed that if the fingers touch 

 the animal, the smell is retained for a very long time, sometimes 

 even slightly so after washing. The animals too are cannibals ; 

 two of them in one night beautifully cleaned out the animals from 

 the shells of half-a-dozen Vitrina pellucida. Haggs Lane, Cartmel ; 

 Grange Fell Road ; Charney Well Lane \ Hampsfell Road ; Eggers- 

 lack Wood ; Windermere Road ; Holme Island ; Low Meathop ; 

 Humfrey Head (J.W.J, and C.H.M.), /. of C, vol. 11, p. 45. 

 Lindale (W.D.R.), J. of C, vol. 4, p. 314. 



. var. viridula Jeffreys. — Eggerslack Wood (R.S.), /. of C, 

 vol. 9, p. 113; Meathop (C.H.M.), y! of C, vol. 12, p. no. 



Vitrea nitidula (Draparnaud). — Apparently a common and 

 generally distributed shell. It frequently turned up in the same 

 situations as the previous species, and all were type specimens. 

 Haggs Lane, Carmel ; Grange Fell Road ; Kirkhead ; Charney Well 

 Lane; Eggerslack Wood; Holme Island; Humfrey Head (J.W.J. 

 and C H.M.), /. of C, vol. 11, p. 45. 



Vitrea pura (Alder). — Evidently a rare and very local shell 

 in the district, as only one dead specimen was found in Eggerslack 

 Wood. Mr. Jackson informs me that in 1903 he took two speci- 

 mens in the same wood, one alive, the other dead. 



var. nitidosa Gray. — This variety has been found occasionally. 

 Both type and variety seem restricted to the one locality, Eggerslack 



