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ON VITREA SCEARFFI, n.sp. 

 By A. S. Kennaed, F.G.S. 



Bead \Oth January, 1908. 



Last year Mr. A. W. Stelfox kindly sent me a large series of Vitreas, 

 wMcli he had collected in the south-west of Ireland. Besides a number 

 of V. hilernica, Kennard, there were a few examples which he had 

 noted as being unknown to him. After a careful comparison I failed 

 to identify them with any recorded British species, and attention was 

 called to them in the report on the Cork Conference of the Irish. 

 Field Clubs. ^ In those genera such as Vitrea, Vitrina, and Succinea, 

 where the shell is in a more or less degenerate condition, it is, 

 I think, advisable that new species should be founded if possible on 

 anatomical evidence, and for this reason I refrained from adding 

 another species to the British list, preferring to wait till an opportunity 

 occurred of examining the animal. It was therefore a matter of 

 congratulation when Mr. B. A. Phillips forwarded me several living 

 specimens of this form which he had collected at Kilrush, co. Clare. 



These examples were at once sent to the Rev. E. W. Bowell, and after 

 a careful examination of their anatomy he concurred in pronouncing 

 them as distinct from any known British form. I therefore propose 

 to dedicate it to Dr. R. F. Scharff, who has done so much to promote 

 the study of Natural Science in Ireland. 



VlTKEA SCHAKPFI, n.Sp. 



Shell convex above and beneath, very glossy, light fulvous horn- 

 colour above, opaque white beneath, with irregular curved strise 

 parallel with the mouth, "Whorls 5^, body-whorl about half the size 

 of the shell ; suture shallow ; umbilicus narrow and deep. Alt. 6, 

 diam. 12 mm. 



The type from Cloughjordan, co. Tipperary, jN". Ireland, is in my own 

 collection. An account of the anatomy of this form will be given by 

 the Rev. E. W. Bowell. It is of course possible that it may be identical 

 with one of the numerous species of Vitrea which have been described 



1 Irish Naturalist, vol. xvi (1907), pp. 278 and 288. 



