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Helicella caperata (Montagu). — This animal occurred in 

 colonies at the places mentioned below, and was generally fairly 

 abundant, the colony on the Lindale Road being exceedingly plenti- 

 ful and undoubtedly the most thriving one in the whole district, 

 although many of the shells were much weathered, exposed as the 

 site is to all conditions of weather, and especially to motor dust. 

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

 Meathop Marsh ; churchyard wall, Lower Lindale Road ; Holme 

 Island (TW.y. and C.H.M.), J. of C, vol. ir, p. 45; Lindale 

 (W.D.R.), /.\/C., vol. 4, p. 3M- 



var. ornata Picard. — Not at all common, and in two places 

 only : Grange Fell Road, Lower Lindale Road. 



*var. obliterata Picard. — One dead specimen, although some- 

 what weathered, had every appearance of being this form. Hampsfell 

 Road. 



Hygromia granulata (Alder). — This species was noted in two 

 localities only, several miles apart, and constituted two thriving 

 colonies, the one at Cartmel having the larger and finer specimens. 

 The Meathop colony simply swarmed at the foot of a stone wall 

 among the grass, and also crawled in numbers over bramble-bushes 

 growing near the wall. The Cartmel colony inhabited a bed of 

 nettles m a copse. Although three other localities are recorded, 

 yet it cannot be said to be "common" in the sense of being widely 

 and generally distributed in the district. Haggs Lane, Cartmel ; 

 Low Meathop; Eggerslack Wood (R.S.), y. of C, vol. 9, p. 113; 

 Windermere Road (J.W.J, and C.H.M.), /. ^/ C, vol. 11, p. 45; 

 Lindale Road (W.D.R.), / 0/ C, vol. 4, P- SU- 



var. cornea Jeffreys. — A large colony of this variety was dis- 

 covered by Mr. J. W. Jackson in September, 1907. He says : 

 " Very abundant, and very large amongst grass in the pasture near 

 Eggerslack Wood." Of another thriving colony at Meathop, he 

 says : " Long grass and meadow-sweet yielded an abundance of 

 exceedingly fine shells of var. cor//ea.^' The following bit of in- 

 formation is decidedly interesting : " Quite a handful of specimens 

 was taken on a piece of waste paper, and sundry pieces of rusty 

 iron proved equally good ground for this species and H. rufescens." 

 Paper we know many snails like and devour greedily, but iron is 

 usually destitute of molluscs. The only species the writer has ever 

 found on iron have been H. rufescens, on one or two occasions, 

 and II. aspersa, discovered hibernating in old tins, etc., in rubbish 

 heaps. (J-W.J.), yi of C, vol. 12, p. 115. 



Hygromia hispida (Linne). — Only found by the writer in one 

 locality, and certainly not common. Adams (*' British Land and 



