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THE BRITISH NATURALIST. [April 



QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 



(Answers to Correspondents will be sent when advisable or convenient by post, but 

 if not so sent they will, appear in this column, and whether sent by post or not they 

 will be inserted here if likely to be of service to other readers.) 



J. H.A.J. — Dr. C. A. Westerlund has very recently published a 

 bulky catalogue of European Land and Freshwater Mollusca, which is 

 approximately complete. 



W.E.C. — Limax marginatus Mull., 1774, has long priority over L. 

 arhonm, and should be used for the species, as Muller's description 

 leaves practically no doubt what was intended. L. sylvestris Scopoli, 

 1772, appears to be a still older name for the same thing, but the 

 description of this is too slight for certain indentification. 



J.W.H. — Helix vivgata v. stihmaritima Desm. is now considered to 

 be H. lauta, Lowe. Two different varieties have been described as 

 stihmaritima by Jeffreys and Moquin-Tandon respectively, and both of 

 them are British. Probably the Jeffreysian variety will require 

 naming, but the varieties of H. virgata are not well understood, and I 

 did not think it wise to give it a new name in the " Brit. Nat. Cat." 



SPECIMENS RECEIVED. 



I. From Alston, Cumberland, 1000 feet above sea level, and 

 within half-a-mile of the Northumbrian border. Sent by Mr. A. 

 Belt. — Vitfina pellucidn, Hyahnia nitidula, II. cellnria, H . radiatula, H. 

 alliaria, II. crystalliua, II. fttlva, Patula rotundata, Helix hispida varying 

 from iorra fnsca, Mke. (clear reddish-brown) to form 'cornea, Mke. (pale 

 hornj, H fuscn. Diiliminus obscuvns, Pupa cylindracea, Cionella lubrica, C. 

 luhrica form hyalina, C. trideiis, Limncea peregra var. ovata (a small 

 form, 8 mill, long, apex decollate, shell thin, blackish), Ancylus 

 fltiviatilis . This little collection is of special interest from the high 

 altitude at which it was obtained. Mr. Belt writes that Helix 

 arbnstorum was also moderately abundant there, but he did not find 

 H. aspersa, nemoralis, or hortensis. He also sent a specimen of Carahus 

 nitens, L., from Crossfell, Aug., i88g. 



Mr. Manger submits for identification some specimens of Stenogyra 

 ( Opeas J Goodnllii, which were found by Mr. Pearson at Chilwell, near 

 Nottingham, feeding on the roots of the bulb of Eiicharis, 



