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snails are accustomed to appear in greater numbers on a rainy day. 

 Followed by a villager I went as far as a hot-spring which was about 

 4 miles away, and explored thereabouts. We tried our best and 

 worked so hud that no valley of the mountain was left unexplored. 

 But the result was almost nothing. 



The whole mountain consisted of granite, and the earth on the 

 surface of the hill-side was all grains of the same. We found many 

 convenient places where, from geological features and irrigation, we 

 expected we could collect many specimens. 



As it would not stop raining, we were considerably disturbed 

 in our work ; and to make the matter worse, the cold grew so 

 intense and almost piercing that we could not bear it any longer. 

 Yet as we had been to the trouble of coming in expectation of success, 

 we made our utmost efforts with the greatest patience and courage, 

 meanwhile fighting against the merciless weather and the severe cold. 

 Excepting only a specimen or two of each of the species which I 

 collected at the cost of the greatest trouble that I had ever experi- 

 enced, neither dead shells nor even pieces of broken shells were to 

 be found. I thought that there must be some geological reason for 

 the non-production of the snails, and that the granite and its grains 

 enveloping the mountain might have prevented them from thriving, 

 as they must certainly have settled there formerly. 



This was, indeed, the most fruitless trip since I had left Kyoto. 

 These are the specimens I obtained hereabouts. 



Eulota senckenbergiatta Kob. 

 ,, peliovtphala herklotsi Marts. 

 ,, vulgivaga S. & 15. 

 Trishoplita dacosta aivajiensh Pils. 

 Ganesella myomphala Mart. 



,, japonica gfanulosa Pils. 



Ena reiniana Kob. 

 Claitsi/ia hickonis Kob. 

 Cyclophorm herklotsi Mart. 

 I was not allowed to spend an)- longer, and the harvest, the 

 busiest season of farmers, had come. So I started home by train on 

 the 1st of November. 



