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Caecilioides acicula (Miiller). This has been found very 

 sparingly in several places but not in any abundance so far as my 

 researches show, except in one grass field on the hill top near 

 Stroud Hill. 



Acicula lineata (Drap.) so far as known at present has only 

 been taken by myself in a small, somewhat damp spot under decay- 

 ing beech leaves, in Worgans Wood, near Stroud. The spot though 

 in the shade during almost the whole day is by no means wet. 



Ancylus fluviatilis Miiller. The commonest form in this neigh- 

 bourhood is the var. albida, which is very abundant in a stream 

 near Brimscombe railway station. Both the type and the var., 

 however, occur rather sparingly in other streams in the neighbourhood. 



Neritina fluviatilis (L.). Large specimens are fairly common 

 in the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal at Sharpness, but in a very 

 restricted area. I am informed that a few specimens were taken 

 from the Stroudwater Navigation some years ago, but I have no 

 personal knowledge of the fact. 



Vivipara contecta (Millet). This appears to be confined to 

 a short length of the Thames and Severn Canal, near Chalford, near 

 to where the condensing water from the waterworks is pumped into 

 the canal. The specimens, in common with the other shells found 

 in that immediate neighbourhood, are above the average in size, 

 owing, as I imagine, to the extra Avarmth of the water. One shell 

 which I have measures as much as 53 mm. in altitude and 41 mm. 

 in breadth. Mr. Taylor tells me that this form is the var. inflata Villa. 



Pisidium amnicum (Miiller). This shell is not uncommon in 

 the Slad stream, near Stroud, and occurs also sparingly in the canal. 



Zonitoides nitidus (Miiller). 



Planorbis fontanus (Lightfoot). 



P. contortus (L ). 



Physa fontinalis (L.). 



Valvata cristata Miiller. 



Pisidium pusillum (Gmel.). ] fontinalis is somewhat 



variable in shape, those from near Gloucester having a more pro- 

 duced spire than those from the Stroud district, whilst those from 

 the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal at Sharpness are much thicker 

 and darker m colour, with a purplish lip. 



All these forms are 

 pretty generally distributed 

 and are tolerably abund- 

 ant, V. cristata being 

 particularly plentiful. P. 



Limax tenellus in Worcestershire.— On December 5lh I found a single 

 example of the var. cincta of this slug in the extensive oak-woods of the Wyre 

 Forest, near Bewdley. The species is, apparently, a new record for the county.— 

 Chas. Oluham {Read before the Society, Jan. 13th, 1909). 



