228 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 
MEETING, APRIL 24th, 1896, 
Held at 23, Northbrook Road, Lee, by invitation of Mr. T. M. Harvard. 
The evening was spent in examining Mr. Harvard’s collections of foreign 
marine shells, and British land and freshwater species. A very fine set of 
Pteropoda was much admired. We also noted a large number of North 
American Uniones, Cyprea aurantinm and C. decipiens, Magilts antiquus, 
and fine British examples of S7pho zslandicis. 
J. E. Cooper. 
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Helix fusca Mont., H. granulata Alder, H. lapicida var. albina 
Menke, and Clausilia Rolphii Gray in Northamptonshire. —A most interest- 
ing discovery has been made by Mr. C. E. Wright of a specimen of Ae/ex 
fusca near Kettering, this species, I believe, not having been recorded for 
any of the eastern counties, or nearer the above locality than North Stafford- 
shire. Mr. A. Loydell has also added @. gvazzlata to the county list by a 
single specimen from Brackley, in which neighbourhood he also found a 
perfectly white (though dead) specimen of //. lapicida var. albina. ‘The 
same collector has also discovered a small colony of Clazs¢lia Rolphiz in 
Sywell Wood, about seven miles from Northampton.—LIonEL E. ADAMS, 
Northampton, Jaz. 8th, 1896. (Read before the Conchological Society, Jan. 
8/h, 1896). 
Note on Helix Lucasi from North Africa.—A specimen of 1. /ucas? 
from North Africa, which I placed on a plant in my study, utterly 
despised vegetation and took to browsing on pamphlets instead, so that they 
looked as if they had been nibbled by mice. It apparently digested the 
literature. —]. W. Horsey, St. Peter’s Rectory, Walworth. (Aead before 
the Conchological Society, May 13th, 1896). 
Limax maximus L. var. alba noy. in Northamptonshire.— 
On May 3rd, while snail-hunting in Rockingham Park with Mr. C. E. 
Wright, I came upon the first British specimen of this variety under some dead 
wood. Messrs. W. Denison Roebuck and J. W. Taylor, to whom I sent 
the slug for inspection, inform me that there are only two instances known 
ofits previous occurrence. Dr. Paul Fischer, in the /ozrnal de Conchylio- 
Jogie, records one in 1880, at Savigny-sur-Orge (Seine et Oise), and another 
from that locality twelve years before. My example measures three-and-a- 
half inches (fully extended) from head to end of tail. It is pure white, 
being entirely destitute of colour with the exception of a few microscopic 
specks of dusky red about the head and upper tentacles ; and there is a red- 
dish ring encircling each eyeball. Like the white form of 4. a/ev, the skin 
is very transparent, and the internal organs can be well traced. The shell, 
too, is quite visible through the mantle. It is noteworthy that Dr. Fischer’s 
description agrees with mine as regards the reddish circles round the eyes. 
As Dr. Fischer did not attach a varietal name to his description, I suggest 
var. alba.—LIONEL E. ADAMS, Northampton. (Read before the Concho- 
logical Soctety, May 13th, 1£96). 
J.C., viit., July, 18096. 
