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Note on Conus melvilli Sowerby. — This curious little species was described 

 in the Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1878, p. 795, from an unique specimen, and also 

 figured, and the locality given as picked up by myself on the south beach of Key 

 West (Cayo Hueso or Bone Key) in March, 1872. This shell has not been recog- 

 nised since as occurring in the above locality, and some few years ago I had a 

 correspondence with Dr. W. H. Dall on the subject, and promised him to place my 

 impressions on record for publication. I was but a beginner in the study of the 

 mollusca in the early seventies, and during the spring and summer of 1873. just 

 after my return home from spending the best part of a year in the United States, 

 the great collections amassed by the late Mr. T. Norris of Preston were advertised 

 for sale at Stevens'. I purchased a considerable number of lots, including one of 

 small Cones, some of which I sent up to Mr. Sowerby, and at the same time I 

 forwarded him a good many species I had gathered on the Florida and other shores 

 of the Southern United States. My strong impression for several years has been, 

 and still is, that this Cone really came from this lot (no. 248 in the second day's 

 sale of the Norris Collection, June 6, 1873) and had somehow been mingled with 

 Cones I had gathered myself, e.g. , C. pusio, C. columba, and C. floridensis, and 

 that the place of its nativity is still, therefore, unknown. It was figured by Sowerby, 

 Thes. Conch. Supplement, ii., Conus, p. 249, pi. xxix. (Thes., pi. 507), fig. 653. 

 I have really little doubt but that this is the true solution of the matter. I certainly 

 have no recollection of having picked up the shells myself, but Mr. Sowerby assured 

 me it came to him with the other species from the Florida Keys. Anyhow, this 

 correction does not invalidate the species. The regular close spiral brown lines, 

 encircling the whole surface, seem one of its most characteristic features ; and I 

 do not know a near ally, though I should not be surprised if it were eventually 

 allotted a place near the group of C. adansonii. — J. C. Melvill {Read before the 

 Society, June 13th, I9i7)- 



Hygromia revelata in North Devon. — The finding of this species during 

 June last in considerable numbers amongst tufts of Sea Campion {Silene 7nariti7fia 

 D.C) on the cliffs within a mile of Ilfracombe, by Mr. Cecil P. Hurst, is inter- 

 esting, and a great extension of its range on the mainland. A few years ago Mr. 

 Tomlin found the species plentifully on Lundy Island, but prior to Mr. Hurst's 

 discovery H. revelata was not known to exist on the mainland east of Newquay in 

 East Cornwall. It will probably be found to extend along the coast in suitable 

 places. — John W. Taylor. 



Hygromia revelata in North Devon.— Mr. Taylor's note reminds me that 

 this species was sent me last year in numbers from the neighbourhood of Hartland 

 Point.— J. R. LE B. Tomlin. 



Hygromia striolata in Notts. — The discovery of this species at Worksop and 

 Newark, Nottinghamshire, by the diligence and enthusiasm of Mr. T. H. Chambers, 

 of Leeds, fills up an important blank in the area inhabited by this species. This 

 inexplicable total absence of H. striolata from Nottinghamshire, though an in- 

 habitant of every other English county, was so remarkable that it was especially 

 commented upon in the recently issued Part xxii. of the Monograph of the Mollusca, 

 wheire this species is treated upon. — JOHN W, Taylor, 



