392 General Notes. [ June, 
of Tennessee; and among their northern radices or foot-hills in 
Kentucky, I several years since collected the largest specimens, 
which I have ever seen, of several common Ohio species. It is 
fair to remark, however, that the shells are fewer in numbers, both 
of species and specimens, though so enormously developed in 
size. Exceptions exist, nevertheless, in both cases. During the 
ing 25 mill. in diameter, and specimens of Z. inornatus Say, 
(subplanus ?) measuring 23 mill. Associated with these, however, 
was a variety of the Æ. 4irsuta Say, with which all southern col- 
lectors are familiar, much dwarfed in size, rounded, and approach- 
ing in form the H. maxillata Gould. The H. stenotrema Fer. 
from the same locality is very large,and very abundant, as is also 
the small variety of H. hirsuta. Very large specimens of 
Z. sculptilis Bland, were found, measuring 11 mill. in diameter. 
_ Associated with these shells was, also, the very rare H. weth- 
erbyi Bland. But one living example of this shell was taken 
when the species was discovered. To this one Mr. George S. 
Huntington afterwards added two or three living specimens 
animal is blueish-black and finely granulated; the tentacles are 
very slender and the foot attenuated and sharply keeled behind. 
This interesting species will probably remain rare in collections, 
if we may judge fairly, after various endeavors to find it in greater 
numbers; and the more especially, because a vicious custom pre- 
vails in that country of firing the woods every Spring, to consume 
the leaves fallen from the trees, and encourage a scanty growth 
upon which the half-starved stock of the idle inhabitants 
subsists. Only in sheltered nooks that the fire-fiend never reaches, 
and in the region of springs and mountain brooks are the molluscs 
safe. But even under these discouraging circumstances, the 
Jellico range offers a wide field for future discovery. We foun 
here, growing luxuriantly with the Ka/mia, the beautiful Lygodium 
palmatum Schwartz, the Æpigea repens L., the Gaultheria pro- 
cumbens L. and other plants common in more northern mountain 
regions. Species of rare Coleoptera are not uncommon, and no 
doubt many new species, in all departments of zoology, await the 
explorer who may have the courage and endurance to summer 19 
the foot-hills of the Jellicoes—A. G. Wetherby. — 
