THE CONCHOLOGICAL MAGAZINE 



October 23rd. The day was fine. I went as far as Kuwana by 

 train and put up at an inn. 



24th. Cloudy. No suburbs were found worthy of exploration. 

 These are the only specimens I collected here. 



Eulota peliomphala herklotsi Marts. 



Trishoplita hilgendorfi, Kob. var. 



G ant 'sella japonica carinata P. & G. ? 



Leaving here at half past nine, I took a mountain pass leading 

 to Ageki, a little village 10 miles from here, and put up at the 

 To-un-kwan. 



25th. It was rainy. I hired two village boys and sent them 

 out to make some explorations on the hills situated back of Shoboji, 

 3 miles away. They came back with their bags empty. 



26th. To my great chagrin I awake to the patterings of rain 

 again to-day. I was obliged to set out by myself to try explorations 

 at Shoboji. I started with a boy. Torrents of rain bothered us very 

 much and the results were almost valueless. 



27th. Still raining. But I could not stay in. So I alone 

 started, the guide boy being busy to-day, for Shinodachi, a small 

 village among mountains which were 5 miles away. Being unfamiliar 

 with the neighbourhood, I could not reach where I had expected to 

 collect quite a number. But I was lucky in getting 3 specimens of 

 the species I had longed for. I found that this neighbourhood was 

 inhabited by a great number of these species, Eulota peliomphala 

 herklotsi and E. callizona amalice, both of which are to be found in 

 plenty everywhere about Kyoto, and in greater numbers especially 

 in rainy weather. 



28th. It cleared up at last to-day. Followed by a villager, 

 and two boys, I started for a stalactite cave commonly called 

 " Kaza-ana " near Shinodachi, for the purpose of making up for the 

 failure of yesterday. We explored so carefully all the way to the 

 cave that nothing was left uninvestigated. We were lucky in finding 

 a good many of that depressed Ganesella. However, I found that 

 the flourishing period had already gone. This was proved by the 

 fact that where-as but few animals of the species survibed here and 

 there, their dead shells were found a great numbers. 



