RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE LOCAL MOLLUSCAN FAUNA. 9315 
25. Apathus rupestris. Common. 
26. $y campestris. Common. 
QT. re barbutellus. Common. 
28. Bombus muscorum. Common, 
29. 4 — senilis. South Shields. 
30. Ns Sragrans. South Shields and coast south- 
wards. 
31. rs sylvarum. Scarce,coast northwards beyond 
Whitley. 
32. Ap lucorum. Common. 
Bee es hortorum. Common. 
34, a scrimshiranus. Not common, 
35. a terrestris. Two females. 
36. a pratorum. Common. 
37. oF lapidarius. Commom 
XLIUI—Recent additions to the Local Molluscan Fauna, with 
description of a New Species. Plate XVII. 
Description of a New Species of Naked Mollusca. By Albany 
Hancock, F.LS. 
Family Limapontiade. 
Limapontia depressa, n. sp. Pl. XVII. 
Body oblong-ovate, depressed, swelling behind the centre and 
terminating in a blunt point, posteriorly, but varying much 
according to the degree of expansion or contraction; black, with 
minute yellowish-white spots or freckles, not always present, and 
very inconspicuous. Head rounded in front, and slightly angu- 
lated at the sides; the lateral crests less elevated than in L. nigra, 
with the eyes situated near the centre of a white oblong area at 
the side of each. Anus placed in a depression at the posterior 
extremity of the body. oot yellowish-white, linear, and squared 
in front. 
Length upwards of a quarter of an inch. 
A few individuals of the species were obtained, last October, 
in brackish-water pools at the mouth of Hylton Dene, near 
Sunderland, associated with Alderia modesta, on a Conferva 
(Vaucheria submarina? ). 
WOM «PT. LV. ; 20 
