ZOOLOGY 
MOLLUSCS 
Although the physical features of Bedfordshire are such as to favour 
molluscan life, students of the mollusca are conspicuous by their absence, 
and only one paper, that by Mr. J. Saunders, Midland Naturalist (1888), 
xi. 152, has been published on the conchology of the area. From this 
and the Records of the Conchological Society, supplemented from the 
observations of Mr. Cox and the Rev. C. McN. Rushforth the following 
list has been compiled. 
Only 74 species out of the 139 known to exist in the British Islands 
have thus been actually found; but the names of fourteen others pre- 
ceded by an asterisk [*] have been included in the list, because judging 
from the records of neighbouring counties they must certainly exist in 
the area. So far as our opinion can be formed from such scanty material 
this molluscan fauna is of the average British type. 
A notable inhabitant is the Roman snail (Helix pomatia), which 
however was living in England before the advent of the Romans. It is 
a very local species, and in this county is found near Luton. 
A. GASTROPODA 
I. PULMONATA Arion ater (Linn.) 
— hortensis, Fér. 
a. STYLOMMATOPHORA : : 
— circumscriptus, John. 
Limax maximus, Linn. *— subfuscus (Drap.) 
— flavus, Linn. Punctum pygmeum (Drap.) Bromham ; 
Agriolimax agrestis (Linn.) Woburn 
*— levis (Mill.). Pyramidula rotundata (Mull.) 
*Amalia sowerbii (Fér.) Helicella virgata (Da C.) 
*— gagates (Drap.) — itala (Linn.) 
Vitrina pellucida (Mull.) — caperata (Mont.) 
Vitrea crystallina (Mull.) — cantiana (Mont.) 
— alliaria (Miller). Woburn Sands ; *Hygromia fusca (Mont.) 
Ampthill — granulata (Ald.) 
— glabra (Brit. Auct.) Woburn Sands;  — hispida (Linn.) 
Luton; Sharnbrook — rufescens (Penn.) 
— cellaria (Mull.) Acanthinula aculeata (Mull.) 
— nitidula (Drap.) Vallonia pulchella (Mull.) 
— pura (Ald. F Helicigona lapicida (Linn.) 
— eee Pasay mcaihil — arbustorum (Linn.) 
— nitida (Mull.) Helix aspersa, Mull. 
— fulva (Mull.) — pomatia, Linn. Near Luton 
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