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vittatus, which he only records doubtfully from Barmouth ? The 

 present writer has seen Donax vittatus from Llandudno, collected by 

 the Rev. H. Friend. Mr. Friend also sent from Llandudno specimens 

 of Littovina ohtiisata, two of which were referable to the yellow form 

 lutea, and seven to the olivaceous form of the species ; and a specimen 

 of Cyprcea anniUus — this latter of course accidentally conveyed there by 

 some means, and in no way belonging to the fauna of North Wales ! 

 Mr. Lowe's paper on " Slugs and Frost" is of special value in relation 

 to the often-discussed question of the effect of hard winters on various 

 forms of life. Mr. Collinge, on pp. 9-10, gives the synonymy of the 

 so-called Limax arborum and Ainalia niarginata ; and on pp. 11-14 he 

 begins what promises to be a very interesting list of the Mollusca of 

 Oxfordshire. The Li max vaviegattis^ var. lineolatus, Collinge, from its 

 dark lines and yellowish tentacles, seems much more like L. marginatus, 

 var. nemorosiis, Baudon, than any variety oiL.Jiavus (vaviegatus) ; but 

 Mr. Collinge writes us—" I have not the slightest doubt as to the speci- 

 mens being flavus.'' L. marginatus, var. nemovosus, is not quoted by 

 Mr. Collinge from Oxfordshire ; but there are three examples of it in 

 the British Museum from near Oxford (A. M. Norman j, together with 

 a young L. cinereoniger, form verus, Dum. and Mort., which is also new 

 to the Oxfordshire list. On pp. lo-ii eight species of mollusca are 

 recorded as new for S. Lancashire, but all of them have been recorded 

 either in Mr. Standen's list in the " NaturaHst " (1887), or in Mr. J. 

 C. Melvill's Manchester list, which was published as a pamphlet on 

 the occasion of the meeting of the British Association there. Simi- 

 larly, Ccecilianella aciciila, supposed on p. 16 to be new for West Kent, 



1^ has been found at Chislehurst (S. C. Cockerell), and if we remember 

 right, recorded in the " Zoologist " for 1885. The Bibliography, as 



I given on p. 15, will be very useful. — T.D.A.C. 



Notes. 



In the " Scottish Naturalist " for April, Mr. Thomas Scott figures 

 iand describes a supposed new species of Vertigo from the post-tertiary 

 imarl at Kirkland, Leven, Scotland, which he proposes to call V. coii- 

 cinna. It is allied to V. pygmaM, but differs in being without apertural 

 lamellae, and in other respects. 



