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Azotes and Comments. 



a word which has been made good use of, particularly in recent 

 years. Link, however, in his ' Beschreibung- der Naturalien- 

 Sammlung- der Universitat zu Rostock,' published in 1807, 

 had already described this form as Atractilites. This name of 

 course takes priority. It would be interesting to hear the 

 remarks of recent writers on the chalk Belemnites in reference 

 to this discovery. Will they revert to ^Atractilites,' or wait to 

 see whether a still earlier name is found for the same thing ! 

 No wonder some geologists sigh for the good old days when one 

 spoke of Ammonites, Belemnites, Trilobites, Graptolites, etc., 

 and did not split them into num.erous sub-divisions as they 

 are to-day. 



RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF A DISCARDED BRITISH SLUG. 



For many years Limax tejiellus has occupied a precarious 

 position in the list of British mollusca, and the recorded 

 instances have all been open to more or less doubt for one 

 reason or another, the earliest record being the most satis- 

 factory, but never seen since its first appearance. This was in 

 the AUansford Woods in county of Durham, in our own district. 

 An excellent coloured drawing was made of it by Joshua Alder, 

 w^hich is a very faithful representation of the species, and is still 

 extant, in the possession of the Rev. Canon Norman. The other 

 records are all doubtful from the point of view of specific 

 identification, none having been seen by a really competent 

 limacologist, the counties for which they were made being- 

 Shetland, Ayr, Bute, and South-west York. 



THE RE-DISCOVERY 

 has just been made in Scotland by the Rev. Robert Godfrey, of 

 Edinburgh, who has been actively collecting slugs for Mr. W. 

 Denison Roebuck, with the view of completing the survey of 

 British and Irish Slugs for Mr. J. W. Taylor's Monograph. 



It is gratifying to find that Mr. Godfrey not merely found the 

 long-looked for L. tenellns but found that it was abundant, in 

 fact the dominant species, in the pine-woods of the great Forest 

 of Rothiemurchus, in Easterness Vice-county. The habitat is 

 in the deeper recesses of the pine-woods, on the branches and 

 stones which are imbedded in the accumulations of pine-needles 

 and rotting vegetable matter. It is in these situations that it 

 seems to be at home and to outnumber all the other species 

 which occur with it. Limax cinereo-niger and Avion siihfuscns 

 and A. minimus are its companions. 



Naturalist, 



