5610 Mollusks. 



Mr. Whiteaves has lately read before the Ashmolean Society an 

 interesting paper, embodying all that has been done by himself and 

 others : this paper (" On the Land and Freshwater Mollusca inhabiting 

 the Neighbourhood of Oxford") has just been published in the 

 Society's * Transactions,' and, with Mr. Whiteaves' leave and wish, I 

 shall make a few extracts from it. 



Mr. Stretch has sent to the ' Zoologist' (Zool. 4540) a catalogue of 

 the shells which have been met with in and around Banbury. 



In the ' Naturalist' for 1855 (vol. v. 200) there is also to be found 

 a list of shells found near Oxford by " J. D." [J. Dalton]. Mr. 

 Dalton collected in company with Mr. Whiteaves, and all that is 

 contained in "J. D.'s" notes is repeated in the fuller catalogue of 

 Mr. Whiteaves. 



The Rev. A. Matthews has recently given a few shells to me, which 

 were collected by himself some years since at Weston-on-the-Green ; 

 and in this fresh part of Oxfordshire shells thus turn up which have 

 either not occurred at all or are rare in those portions of the county 

 previously examined. 



Since I am about to mention what others, rather than myself, have 

 done, I shall refer to the Mollusca previously alluded to (Zool. 4128) 

 as having been found at Henley-on-Thames by Mr. Hugh E. Strick- 

 land (Loudon's ' Mag. of Nat. Hist.' vol. viii. 494). 



For the sake of uniformity I continue to use the nomenclature of 

 Gray's ' Turton's Manual.' 



Valvata cristata. I have met with this species in the brook that 

 runs at the foot of Woodeaton Hill, as I have already casually men- 

 tioned in another paper. " Occasionally met with in peaty ditches 

 with Valvata piscinalis ; it has a much wider distribution, but is 

 scarcer. As localities I may cite Yarnton, near Summertown, and near 

 Watereaton," Whiteaves. It also is to be found in Mr. Stretch's 

 list. 



Limax carinatus. Among the Limaces which were given me by 

 Mr. Matthews there were two or three undoubted shells of this slug. 



Helix fusca. " Fawley Woods ; very rare," Strickland. 



„ aculeata. "Moss and fir leaves, Fawley Woods," Strick- 

 land. When at Oxford I took two or three specimens at the outskirts 

 of Stow Wood, among moss, it having been previously taken there by 

 Mr. Whiteaves. Another locality is Weston-on-the-Green, where 

 Mr. Matthews informs me it was not uncommon. A fourth is Ban- 

 bury, Stretch. 



Zonites umbilicatus. Abundant at Woodeaton and on many old 



