|| l THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Ecology: "The specimens in this lake (Mud Lake) are small, 

 light horn-colored, sometimes ornamented with revolving bands; the 

 color of the animal varies. The specimens at the water's edge are 

 bluish-black or gray, and those in deep water are very light and some- 

 times orange. Specimens are most common in water about three 

 feet in depth, on a gravel bottom, where they feed on conferva, grow- 

 ing on the rocks. In square lake it is always found at low water mark, 

 on gravelly or stony bottom, or on a gravelly bar where there is a 

 strong current from an inlet or thoroughfare." (Xylander, Maine.) 



It is an interesting fact that the large variety mighclsi is found 

 in the larger bodies of water, while the typical emarginata occurs 

 usually in or near small thoroughfares or bayous. 



"In a small inlet (Tonkin Bay) which opens to the east upon the 

 lake, with steep, approximately parallel sides. This inlet is narrowed 

 half way up by two beaches which reduce the wave action in the inlet. 

 In this inlet Lymncea emarginata lives along both sides where the bot- 

 tom is rock, but not across the ends. It lives only on a rock substratum, 

 which may be either horizontal or vertical, and in water up to 45 centi- 

 meters in depth. In Conglomerate Bay emarginata lives in water in 

 15-45 cm. deep, in the deeper water on the tops of flat rocks, in the 

 shallower water, also, on the vertical sides and in small crevices. They 

 never occur on the sand or gravel deposited around the rocks, as is fre- 

 quently the case near the sand beach at the upper end of the bay. 



"In connection with the rock beaches may be mentioned the beach 

 pools, which are depressions in the rock filled with water by high 

 waves. They are naturally most abundant on flat or gently sloping 

 beaches, and their permanency varies with their size and depth, affect- 

 ing evaporation, and with their height above the lake, affecting the 

 frequency with which they are filled. In those which are permanent 

 are found shells, Limncea emarginata Say and Planorbis parvus Say.- 

 (Gleason, Isle Royale). 



Remarks: On page 69 of his Alaska Mollusks, Dr. Dall says: 

 "After considerable study I have been forced to the conclusion that 

 several species were identified under this name by Say himself, as well 

 as others." Dr. Dall is right in this statement, excepting that I be- 

 lieve Say understood his species pretty thoroughly. There is no doubt 

 that later students have mixed the true emarginata with forms of 

 catascopium and palustris, besides confounding several varieties under 

 this name. The original specimens came from Maine and it is to this 

 state that we must look for typical emarginata. Such material has been 

 abundantly collected by Mr. Olof O. Nylander in the lakes of Aroos- 



