l6 JOliKN'AI. OV CONfllOl.OGV, VOL. 1 5, \0, I, JANHARV, I916. 



jP/z/a cylindracea (DaCosta). — Swarming everywhere. Jura, 29/6/oS; 

 Port Ellen, 27/7/13; Bridgend, 28/7/13; Oronsay, 30/6/13; 

 Colonsay, 30/7/13. 

 P. cylindracea var. ciirta West. — Colonsay, 30/7/13. 

 *Sphyradiiim edetituluin (I)rap.). — Carn Mor, Colonsay, 28/6/13, 



29/7/13, frequent. 

 *Balea perversa (L.). — Carn Mor, 28/6/13, O'"" distillery walls ; Port 

 Ellen, 28/7/13, plentiful. 

 Clausilia bidentata (Strom). — Swarming at all places visited. 

 "^Cochlicflpa lubrica (Miill.).— Colonsay, 29/6/13, scarce; Port Ellen, 

 26/7/13, scarce. 

 Liniiiaa pereger (Miill.). — Frequent in the wells on Colonsay, and 

 shallow draining grips on the mosses ; also in Loch Fada, June 

 and July, 1913. 

 *Planorbis spirorbis var. rotundata Poiret. — In a dyke near the post- 

 office, Colonsay, in company with Pisidia. 

 Ancylus fluviatilis Miill. — In the burn, golf-links, Colonsay, 28/6/13, 

 numerous LagavuUin, Islay, 27/7/13. 

 *Pisidiuin pusillnm (Gm.). — In the shallow draining grips, AFachrins 



Burn, and Loch Fada, Colonsay, 28/6/13. 

 *Ptsidiuin piilchelliDn Jenyns. — -Numerous in a dyke near post-office, 

 Scalasaig, 3L'7/'i3- 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



On behalf of the Society we venture to tender our deepest sympathy to M. 

 Dautzenberg for the loss of his son Charles, of the 39th Regiment d'Aitillerie, who 

 was killed at Neuvillc-Saint-Vaast on the 12th of May last, at the age of 23. 



At a meeting of the London Branch, held on October 14th last, it was decided 

 to suspend the meetings until further notice, and to retain the present office- 

 bearers in office for another year. 



The splendid series of monographs now appearing on the Fauna of British 

 India, including Ceylon and Burma, has recently been augmented by a second 

 volume on the MoUusca. Vol. I., by the late W. T. Blanford and Lt. -Colonel 

 God win- Austen, appeared in 1908, and conijuised the Tes/aceUiJit- a.nd Zonituhc. 



We are now glad to welcome a most al)le volume of over five hundred pages, 

 by Mr. G. K. Gude, dealing with thirteen more families, from the TrochoinorphidiC 



