NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 
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At no other Roman station have I met with Helix pomalia, Richborough, 
Pevensey, Lymne, or elsewhere. Shells from among the deep- buried pottery 
fragments at Uriconium were obtained for me, but all proved to be aspersa and 
lumoralis. I have pomalia, collected by myself, from the chalk hills of Bedford- 
shire (near Luton), from Brasted in Kent, and from Epsom, Box Hill, and 
Caterham in Surrey. Save at Box Hill — where certainly a Roman road once 
passed not very far from the spot where I find the snail now— I am not aware of 
any connection of the localities with Roman remains or occupation. Mr. Thomas 
Wright, in The Celt, Roman, and Saxon, p. 344, mentions as a curious circum- 
stance that a large species of snail is often found about Roman stations, but he 
gives no instances. He also says that in excavating Roman sites, large quantities 
of shells are often met with, but the species are not named, and he admits that 
they may be self-buried and not belonging to the Roman period at all. 
WlLLIA.M WhITWELL. 
Cunnillg Thruslies.— A person whose cottage window overlooks my 
garden, told me that one .Sunday she saw two thrushes slip over the wall and 
disappear among the currant-bushes. Nearer the house are the raspberry canes 
in full sight. The birds reappeared presently on the path, looking round as if 
unconcerned. However, they made their way cautiously to the raspberries, and 
flew among them, pecking away with might and main. The woman had only 
to tap at the window to make the speckled thieves fly away. 
Alston. I. E. Page. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Mrs. C. — Mr. W. F. Kirby says : — “ The dragonfly described is probably 
. Igrion (or Calopteryx) Virgo, Linn. There is a small ‘ Illustrated Handbook 
of British Dragonflies,’ published by E. W. Allen, and a synopsis of British 
Dragonflies, by Dr. Hagen in the Entomologists’ Annual for 1857.” 
C. F. — (l) Milium undulatum Hedw. ; (2) Mostly Airichum undulatum, 
P. Beauv. partly Eurhynchium prtelongttm Schimp ; (3) Plagiothecium undii- 
latum, Br. and Sch. mixed with Diaannm scoparium Hedw. 
R. C. — Mr. W. F. Kirby names the wild bees thus: — (l) Andrena fulva ; 
(2) A nigro-tenea ; (3 and 4) A trimmerana ; (5) Rrosopis hyalinata ; (6) Halictus 
Smeathmanellus ; but says : — “The specimens are not in sufficiently good con- 
dition for the determinations to be given as more than approximately correct.” 
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