166 Notes on certain Terrestrial Mollusca, 



Achatina Californica, Pfr. 



This species, described from specimens in the Cumingian 

 Cabinet, has been attributed to Monterey, California. Some 

 time since I received specimens, through Mr. Akhurst, from 

 Fig. 10. Bogota, New Granada, and forwarded one to 



Dr. P. P. Carpenter, with a request that he 

 would have it compared with the type. After 

 doing so, he reported to me : " Mr. Cuming* says 

 that your shell is certainly A. CalifoKiiGaj auct." 

 In future this should be excluded from lists of 

 A. Californica Pfr. [^orth American species. As it is little known, 

 I add the figure engraved for the before-mentioned work of 

 W. G. Binney. 



A. Californica appears to be viviparous ; within one of my 

 specimens I found two young shells, each having 2 to 2J 

 whorls. 



Pupa Roirellii ]¥ewc. 

 Pupa Californica Roirell. 



The former species, from the vicinity of Oakland, California, 

 was described by N^ewcomb in Ann. vii. 146 ; and the latter, 

 from San Francisco, by Rowell in Ann. vii. 287. I now pre- 

 sent figures of both, from drawings by Morse, with the follow- 

 ing remarks, for which I am indebted to him. 



* Mr. Cuming died in London on the 10th August last. During many years I 

 experienced from him much kindness and liberality. In 1856, with him, Mr. 

 Robert Swift, and Dr. Wesley Newcomb, I collected shells on Goat Island, 

 Niagara — probably Mr. Cuming's latest experience in collecting. 



