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the railway station at the commencement of Peel Road, Douglas, 

 Isle of Man, virtually in the town itself. I have specimens of L. pere- 

 j^er from a very unusual situation, given to me many years ago by 

 Mr. F. C. Long, of Burnley (cf., "Science Gossip," Dec, r888), 

 who found them in the mill cistern of the Gannow Weaving Shed, on 

 the top of the engine house, about sixty feet above the canal from 

 which the water was pumped. This water was kept at an equal 

 temperature all the 5'ear round, and when they were cleaning out the 

 cistern he found, besides these very Suc'd^/ea-Wke L. pereger^ S. cor- 

 neiim, S. latiisfre, V. pisci/ialis, B. teiitaculata^ P. albus, P. cornens, 

 P. ?iitiihis, P. glabe?\ and very fine P. dilatatus, although this species 

 was only small in the canal. Acanfhinula laniellata I have found in 

 considerable quantities on dead leaves under holly bushes near Tore 

 ^Vaterfall, Killarney. Acicula lineata was also plentiful in the same 

 situation. 



Many species are found at times climbing bushes and trees, as at 

 Lisdoonvarna Spa, in Co. Clare, on a very mild and damp day, I 

 found quantities of H. neinoralis high up in a thorn-hedge by the 

 roadside, in great variety of colour and banding. Also H. p07natia 

 I have seen high up in the apple trees in Switzerland, far higher than 

 one could reach with a long pole. Pupa aiv^/icn is generally found 

 in damp situations, and from my experience the damper the place 

 the darker the shell ; but in the grounds of the old Bishop's Palace, 

 at Parknasilla in Kerry, I found the var. ailm climbing trees as far as 

 I could reach. A good place to look for some of the Vertigos is on 

 small fallen branches of trees in woods. 



Some species are often found in very large quantities, such as H. 

 pisaiia at Tenby, where you can easily collect hundreds in a few 

 minutes ; Clausilias are usually very numerous, as at Bellagio on 

 Lake Como, I got several hundred CI. itala and Pupa aveiiacea along 

 a wall by the side of the lake. Once, when staying at Pensarn in 

 North Wales, my children. had a prize offered for the largest number 

 of P. niuscoimn which were to be found under stones on the grass, 

 just above high-water mark, and on one stone, no larger than One's 

 hand, they found as many as forty-five specimens, ^^'hen staying at 

 Gryon in t!ie Rhone Valley I found some species in very large 

 (]uantities, especially CUunilia and Pupa on both walls and trees, and 

 on one day, after heavy rain, I found over fifty specimens of C. la?n- 

 iiiata var. albiiia on some railings near the village. H. a7-bustoruui 

 and H. villosa were also very plentiful in the narrow gorges of the 

 river Aven^on, but one species, Eulota friitiaim, I only found singly, 

 although it was by no means rare and could easily be seen if crawling, 

 by the yellow colour of the animal showing through the white shell. 



