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Page November 1978 No. 246 NEW YORK SHELL CLUB NOTES 
on the stems of the reeds, but only on those reeds within a foot or 
so of the open water. Se 
ier and more ambitious shellers marched up the 
Peay Rirads sean ead) oF sight. On their return one collector had 
a live left-handed Lightning Whelk (Busycon contrarium) of about 
ten inches. ’° It? was a beauty)® ando clean.’ “Other shells were a crab 
Specimen of B. contrarium with its aperture lined with Crepidula 
Plana and a couple of large ribbed mussels, Geukensia demissa. Re- 
ported also were small specimens of an Oyster rill and an empty 
Tulip Shell, and some interesting birds: a Wilson's Plover, several 
Oyster Catchers, and both Common and Least Terns. 
Mid-afternoon, after our very interesting excursion, we were ferried 
back to Wrightsville Beach where the bus was waiting to take us back 
to the campus. 
Incidentally, wearing white sneakers and socks, constantly wet, I 
was generally unaware of the heat of the sand. 
Others who went to Lake Waccamaw for freshwater collecting came back 
with a satisfactory sampling of bivalves and a few gastropods. I 
did not learn of the results of the canoe trip or the trip to collect 
fossils. 

Dorothy Raeihle 
POSTSCRIPT: On July 22nd a visit to the beach beyond Fort Caswell 
was of additional interest. Caswell Beach is possibly twenty-five 
to thirty miles from Wilmington, down toward Cape Fear, and faces 
south. Again, with one exception, species were represented by beach- 
worn material, but we added to our list the Angel Wing (Cyrtopleura 
costata, the False Angel Wing (Petricola holadiformis), the Patien 
Angel Wing (Barnea truncata), the Pen Shell (Atrina rigida), the very 
fragile Channeled Duck Clam (Raeta (=Anatina, =Labiosa Plicatella), 
the small Razor (Ensis minor), the Dwarf Surf Clam (Mulinia lateral- 
is) and Oliva sayana, the Lettered Olive, to 2". The exception was 
Donax living in the water's edge. ar 
HAVE YOU FOUND A CUP-AND-SAUCER LIMPET ON LONG ISLAND? 
In response to the article in last month's NOTES age 5, which con- 
tains remarks on Calyptraea (=Crucibulum) rend bing oe have the fol- 
lowing letter from our member Ernest Walton: 
I found a specimen of this shell half buried in the sand of 
the Atlantic Ocean side beach of Long Island along Old Mon- 
tauk Highway. This spot would be about two miles further 
Soe than where you found your specimen, assuming that you 
ound yours on the ocean beach also (correct. -Ed ) and not 
in Napeague Bay. I came across mine in the summer of 1965. 
Perhaps other club members also hav 
e colle 1 
and could help to establish this shell as chi auiner ten ae 
our area. It would be interesting to hear from them. 
If this species is "Commonly dred i 
ged in shallow " pott, 1974) 
and if Jacobson (1961) "...once collected 25 pices | MA in damaic? | 
ay," surely more of our members have come across this uncommon shell. 
Please let us hear from you, 
dr 

