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NOTES on LINCOLNSHIRE MOLLUSCA. 



North-west Lindsey Mollusca : South Kelsey Parish.— On the 



ioth October 1901, I had a morning; among; the mollusca of South "Kelsey 

 {Div. 7 X.). The take consisted of Arion ater, A. kortensis and Amalia 

 soiverbyi. There were no less than seven specimens of the last species 

 feeding- on some castaway grave flowers behind a tree in the churchyard. 

 All the larg-er trees were marked with long- lines of molluscan slime ; some, 

 as I could see with the fieldglass, to a heig-ht of twenty feet. The Rev. 

 H. C. Brewster told me Helix aspersa was the great climber ; but other 

 species climbed at times too. H. rotundata abounded, as I have never 

 seen it do in any other spot. H. rufescens, H. hispida, and Agriolimax 

 agrestis were common, Hyalinia cellaria, Hy. nitidula, Hy. pura, and Helix 

 nemdrdlis not rare. H. puichella and var. costaia were taken along- with one 

 dead Pupa muscorum. A most careful hunt g-ave no further indication of the 

 presence of the last species. On the 26th Mr. Brewster sent me an apple 

 which "was picked about twelve feet from the ground.' It still 'contained 

 the two destructive rascals found in it when taken in the hand.' They were 

 Helix rn fescejis and Arion hortensis in a larg-e hole they had made by eating-. 

 E. Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock, Cadney, Brig-g-, 9th December 1901. 



Anodonta cygnea in North-West Lindsey.— My father sent Mr. R. 

 Tate specimens of this species from the fish pond at Bottesford moors in 

 1865, and I believe that as it is the only spot that I at present know for this 

 species in North-West Lindsey, a short note about its past history may not 

 be uninteresting-. Thoug-h in the Trent valley and not far from that river 

 the locality is not ! on Trent.' It is a distant and outlying- portion of Bottes- 

 ford township. The late Georg-e Todd, junior, for many years head g-ardener 

 at Bottesford, told me the following-; — 'When I was a boy working- for your 

 grandfather he made yon fish pond, and broug-ht the fish and this big- water 

 mussel to save 'em from a peat hole ' — their native home — ' about a quarter 

 of a mile off, as the hole was g-oing- to be warped up. I helped to carry 

 barrow loads of 'em in buckets from the old peat hole to the new pond, as I 

 was not strong- enoug-h to wheel a barrow full.' The pond was made about 

 1837, I believe. This species still frequents the place in great numbers, and 

 I showed Messrs. J. W. Tavlor and W. Denison Roebuck specimens-from it. 

 The species in the Ancholme is A. anatina. I fear the late Mr. Ball, of 

 Brig-g - , mistook it for A. cygnea L. I have never seen this species in that 

 river bed, thoug-h, when it has been run off, I have walked miles along- the 

 drying- mud during- the last ten years. — E. Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock, 

 Cadney, Brig-g-, 24th January 1902. 



Variation in Helices in the Grimsby District.- In trying to acquire 

 records for the Terrestrial Mollusca of the Grimsby district I have come 

 across some most interesting- forms of some of the abundant species. One 

 particular spot which abounds with Helix nemoralis calls for particular 

 note. One day, not having much time, I almost filled my vasculum with 

 a creepy crawly horde of these creatures, and among them found some 

 which both interested and confused me, so picking- them out from the 

 common forms, I sent them to Mr. Standen, of Manchester, to verify. The 

 following was the result : 



Helix 71 em oral is. 



1. An intermediate form between var. undulata and var. interrupta. 



2. Var. roseolabiata bimarginata. 



3. An intermediate form between vars. albolabiata and roseolabiata. 



4. A verv prettv and unusual form combining three varieties, viz., 



var. albolabiata + var. libellida (colour) + var. hyalozonata - 

 banding 00300. 



I also took among them Helix aspersa var. undulata, H. arbustorttm 

 vars. flavescens and pallida. No doubt had I the time to visit this spot 

 many* other interesting forms could be collected.— Artmi k Smith. 

 5, Cavendish Street, Grimsby, 13th December 1901. 



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