3390 Mollusks. 



Land and Fresh-water Mollusca of the Neighbourhood of Nottingham. 

 By Edward Joseph Lowe, Esq., F.R.A.S., &c. * 



Water Shells, [Univalves). 



Neritina fluviatilis. Abundant in the river Trent near Beeston and 

 near Nottingham, and in the river Soar near Thrumpton. 



Paludina achatina. Common at Thrumpton in the river Soar, in 

 the river Trent below Nottingham, and in the Lenton canal. 



Bithinia tentaculata. Swarms in a stagnant ditch near Lenton Pri- 

 ory, common in most ditches at Lenton, in a clear brook at Beeston 

 and another at Attenborough, in the river Trent and tributaries to that 

 river near Beeston and Savvley, and also under the Seven Arches in 

 Nottingham Meadows. 



B. ventricosa. Only found in a narrow ditch near the railway at 

 Lenton, where it is tolerably abundant, and under the Seven Arches 

 in Nottingham Meadows. 



Valvata piscinalis. Abundant in brooks at Beeston, Lenton, and 

 Bulwell, and in the river Trent near Beeston. 



V. cristata. In rare numbers in a brook on Bulwell Bogs. 



Succinea putris. Rather abundant at Thrumpton. 



S. Pfeifferi. Common at Sawley and near Highfield House, and 

 found between Beeston and Attenborough. 



Limneus auricularius. Abundant in the Musco-Sic dike near High- 

 field House ; found at Lenton, Beeston, Attenborough, and Sawley. 



L. pereger. Very abundant at Lenton, Beeston, Attenborough, 

 Sawley, Bulwell, Thrumpton, Highfield House, and Nottingham 

 Meadows. 



L. stagnalis. Abundant in a dike at Lenton, a dike at Attenbo- 

 rough, a mill-dam at Bulwell, a backwater at Sawley (called the " Old 

 Trent"), and in few numbers in the river Trent near Beeston, and a 

 stagnant ditch between Beeston and Attenborough. 



L. palustris. Abundant on moist mud at Sawley and near the rail- 

 way at Thrumpton, and very large in a stagnant ditch between Bees- 

 ton and Attenborough. 



L. truncatulus. Rare, in a ditch at Lenton and under the Sevei 

 Arches in the Nottingham Meadows. 



Ancylus fluviatilis. Tolerably abundant in clear dikes at Highfieh 

 House, Attenborough, Bulwell and Oxton, and at the mouth of a well 

 at Newstead Abbey. 



* From the ' Proceedings of the Liunean Society,' No. xlv., p. 117. 



