THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS ALASKA VOLUME XIII SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION HARRIMAN ALASKA SERIES VOLUME XIII LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS BY WILLIAM H. DALL HYDROIDS BY C. C. NUTTING (PUBLICATION 2000) CITY OF WASHINGTON PUBLISHED BY THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 1910 LIBRARY UNJVERSliY C? CALIFORNIA ADVERTISEMENT. The publication of the series of volumes on the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899, heretofore pri- vately printed, has been transferred to the Smithsonian Institution by Mrs. Edward H. Harriman, and the work will hereafter be known as the Harriman Alaska Series of the Smithsonian Institution. The remainder of the edition of Volumes I to V, and VIII to XIII, as also Volumes VI and VII in preparation, together with any additional volumes that may hereafter appear, will bear special Smithsonian title pages. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, WASHINGTON, D. C., JULY, 1910 HARR1MAN ALASKA EXPEDITION WITH COOPERATION OF WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ALASKA VOLUME XIII BY WILLIAM H. DALL HYDROIDS BY C. C. NUTTING NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1905 COPYRIGHT, 1905 BY EDWARD H. HARRIMAN PREFACE THE present volume comprises two papers : one on the Land and Fresh Water Mollusks of Alaska, by Dr. Wm. H. Dall ; the other on the Hydroids of the Expedition, by Prof. C. C. Nutting. Dr. Dall's paper has not been previously published ; Professor Nutting's appeared in the Proceedings of the Wash- ington Academy of Sciences in May, 1901. The number of new Mollusks here described is twelve ; of new Hydroids twenty. C. HART MERRIAM, Editor. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 15, 1905. (v) CONTENTS PAOB PREFACE v LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS, BY WILLIAM H. DALL. General discussion and results I Summary of distribution of fresh water species in Alaska and adjacent regions I Table of distribution of fresh water species according to drainage systems now existing 4 Summary of distribution of land shells of Alaska and ad- jacent regions , 7 Table of distribution of American land shells 8 Summary of the mollusk fauna of northeastern Asia 9 Table of distribution of northeast Asiatic land and fresh water shells 14 Conclusions in regard to the Alaskan fauna 15 Systematic catalogue of land and fresh water mollusks of North America north of the forty-ninth parallel 19 Bibliography 1 47 Index to genera and species 157 HYDROIDS, BY C. C. NUTTING. Introduction 1 75 Geographic distribution 176 Systematic discussion 181 Bibliography 207 VOLUME INDEX ,,,,,.,,,,,,,,...,.. 235 (vii) ILLUSTRATIONS PLATES PACING PAGES I, II. Land and Fresh Water Mollusks 154, 156 III-XV. Hydroids 210-234 TEXT FIGURES PAGES 1-118. Land and Fresh Water Mollusks 20-144 (ix) LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS OF ALASKA AND ADJOINING REGIONS NOTE THE following memoir has been prepared to bring together and modernize the data existing in the literature, and to combine it with the new material obtained by the Harriman Expedition and such as was accessible elsewhere from the same region. In order to accomplish this, and because of the uniformity of boreal faunas all round the northern hemisphere, it has been necessary to examine the entire boreal fauna of North America, Greenland, and the adjacent parts of eastern Siberia. The material examined has been that collected by the Harri- man Expedition ; that obtained by the writer during explora- tions in Alaska from 1865 to 1885, and now in the National Museum ; collections from various collaborators of the Museum, members of the Navy, the Revenue Marine, and the Geological Survey of the United States ; and certain material borrowed for examination from various sources. On the whole, though the collection is not remarkably large, it is probably the largest and most complete, for the region, ever brought together. The text figures have been generously lent by the Smith- sonian Institution. I am indebted to Mr. Bryant Walker, Dr. J. F. Whiteaves of the Dominion Geological Survey, Dr. H. A. Pilsbry, of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and numerous other correspondents, for advice and assistance ; and to the au- thorities of the U. S. Geological Survey, the Dominion Geolog- ical Survey, the Smithsonian Institution, and the U. S. National Museum, for facilities for study and access to collections, for all of which I am deeply grateful. WM. H. DALL. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D. C., Sept. 17, 1904. LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS OF ALASKA AND ADJOINING REGIONS BY WILLIAM HEALEY DALL GENERAL DISCUSSION AND RESULTS THE first object of this work is to sum up the known mollus- can fauna of the land and fresh waters of Alaska. This has involved an examination, not only of the species obtained within the political boundaries of Alaska, but also those of the adjacent region to the west, east, and south. The result is that, for North America north of latitude 49° North, the work includes a sum- mary of our present knowledge of the mollusks, deduced in part from the literature and in larger part from material actually examined. To this is added a briefer examination of the mollusk fauna of the adjacent parts of eastern Siberia which has to some extent modified that of Alaska. As a whole the work may be regarded as forming a synoptic manual of the boreal land and fresh water mollusks of the western hemisphere. I. SUMMARY OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF FRESH WATER SPECIES IN ALASKA AND ADJACENT REGIONS. It was thought best to tabulate the species of rivers and lakes according to the drainage systems in which they are found. Of course these systems are not geologically ancient, and it is even probable that some existing species of the Mississippi system were trapped by the changes of level which, according to Gen. G. K. Warren, U.S.A., secured, for the Red River of ft) 2 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS the North, part of the channels which earlier discharged into the Gulf of Mexico by way of the Mississippi. It is probable, for the region under review, that the entire molluscan population was exterminated or driven south during the Glacial epoch, and that we now have to do with immigrants from the south whose distribution has taken place since that time. In the following tables all doubtful species are omitted, so that the fauna tabulated, if not complete, is at least well estab- lished so far as it goes. The following areas are represented in the successive columns of the table : Asia. — This column indicates those species known also to inhabit the eastern portion of Siberia, Kamchatka, and the Chukchi Peninsula, together with the Commander Islands, which are obviously populated from the Asiatic shores. Yukon. — This system includes the entire drainage basin of the Yukon and the tundra north of it, as well as the area drained by the Kuskokwim River, or all of Alaska north, northwest, and westward of the Alaskan Range, as well as the area behind the Coast Ranges and between them and the northward exten- sion of the Rocky Mountains, drained by the Yukon and its tributaries. Alaska. — This system includes all of the Aleutian Islands, the area on the Alaska Peninsula and continent between the Coast Ranges and the Alaskan Range and the Pacific north of latitude 54°. This system and the following one are really continuous, the Alaskan being really only the north- westward extension of that here designated as the Pacific system. Pacific. — This includes the coast drainage of British Colum- bia, the basins of the Fraser and Columbia rivers, the coastal part of the State of Washington, and the northern part of Idaho and Montana west of the Selkirk Range and its more southern equivalents in the Rocky Mountain region. Mackenzie. — This vast system includes the basin drained by the Mackenzie River and its tributaries, covering northwest Alberta, northeastern British Columbia, the northwestern two thirds of Athabaska, and the Mackenzie district. GENERAL DISCUSSION 3 Ifudson Bay. — This system, the largest of all, comprises the entire area draining into Hudson Bay, including Keewatin, the southeastern corner of the Mackenzie district, eastern Atha- baska, the whole of Saskatchewan, the southeastern two thirds of Alberta, Assiniboia and Manitoba, the drainage area of the Red River of the North in the Dakotas and northeastern Minne- sota, all of Ontario, Quebec, and Ungava north and west of the « Height of Land.' Canada. — This system comprises the drainage of the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes south and east from the Height of Land, including the island of Anticosti. Labrador. — This comprises the area draining into Ungava Bay and the Atlantic north of the Straits of Belle Isle and the Height of Land, being the Labrador coast and the northeastern part of the Ungava district of the Dominion of Canada. A few species are noted from Greenland ; when peculiar to Greenland, or found in Greenland and also on the continent, the species have been entered in the Labrador column but dis- tinguished by an asterisk. The vast territories included in these drainage systems are, it is true, only partially and imperfectly explored for mollusks. Yet certain portions of them are tolerably well known, and the uniformity imposed on the fauna by its high northern position and unvaried conditions leads to the belief that while much is yet to be known in tracing out the details of distribution, little is to be expected in the way of absolutely new species, even from this immense territory still to be explored. It would be rash to conclude that nothing new remains to be found ; but it certainly behooves us to be moderate in our expectations. It is probable that new additions will be made from among the ranks of the smaller species, such as Corneocyclas (or Pi- sidium), Vertigo, and the more minute Helicida. Perhaps a considerable number of the more southern forms which are known to approach the boundary will eventually be found to pass beyond it ; and other additions to the list will result from the more careful discrimination of similar or closely allied species. LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS TABLE I. DISTRIBUTION OF FRESH WATER SHELLS NORTH OF LATITUDE 49°, ACCORDING TO THE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS NOW EXISTING. Name of Species. 4 < 1 > Alaska. Pacific. Mackenzie. i a o •o w 4 J Labrador. Lymnoea stagnalis o o O O O 0 o LymnDta petersi o o Lymnrea atkensis o Lymnaea megasoma o o Lymnaea emarginata o o o Lymnaea binneyi o o o Lymnaea preblei o Lymnaea columella o o Lymnaea randol phi . o o Lymnaea kirtlandiana o Lymnaea truncatula o o O o Lymnaea humilis o o Lymnaea desidiosa o o o Lymnaea galbana o O o o Lymnaea holbolli o * Lymnaea vabli o o O o o o 0* Lymnaea palustris o o o O o o o o Lymnaea reflexa o o Lymnaea catascopium o o o o o Lymnaea adelince o Lymnaea? perpolita o Lymnaea caperata o Lymnaea anticostiana o Planorbis bicarinatus. O o o Planorbis corpulentus o o Planorbis binneyi O Planorbis trivolvis o o o o o o o o o Planorbis var. rudentis o Planorbis exacuous , o o o Planorbis var. megas o Planorbis opercularis o Planorbis var. planulatus o O Planorbis hirsutus o o o o o o o o o o o o o Planorbis vermicularis o 0* Planorbis nathorsti 0* Planorbis arcticus 0* Planorbis umbilicatellus o Planorbis crista o o Segmentina armigera o o o Segmentina christyi o o o o o o o o o Physa ancillaria o o Physa lordi o ? ? Physa propinqua o GENERAL DISCUSSION TABLE I. DISTRIBUTION OF FRESH WATER SHELLS NORTH OF LATITUDE 49°, ACCORDING TO THE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS NOW EXISTING. — Continued, Name of Species. 1 Yukon. Alaska. Pacific. Mackenzie. 1 1 1 w Canada. Labrador. Physa ampullacea O O O Aplexa hypnorum o O O o O Ancylus ri vularis o o Ancylus parallelus o o O Ancylus kootaniensis O Goniobasis plicifera O Amnicola limosa o o Amnicola pallida o o Amnicola emarginata o o Amnicola cincinnatiensis > o o o o Pomatiopsis lapidaria o o Fluminicola nut talliana O Fluminicola virens O Valvata tricarinata 0 o o Valvata sincera o Valvata lewisi O o o o Valvata var helicoidea O O o Valvata mergella O O Valvata virens O Campeloma decisum o o Lampsilis ventricosus 0 o Lampsilis luteolus o o 0 Lampsilis borealis o o Lampsilis radiatus .. . o o 0 0 Lampsilis rectus 0 o Lampsilis ellipsiformis o o o 0 0 0 Strophitus rugosus o o Anodonta beringiana o O O Anodonta oregonensis o O 0 Anodonta wahlamatensis o o 0 Anodonta implicata o o 0 o 0 0 o Anodonta pcpiniana o o 0 o o o Symphynota costata o o Symphynota complanata , o o o Margaritana margaritifera o o o LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS TABLE I. DISTRIBUTION OF FRESH WATER SHELLS NORTH OF LATITUDE 49°, ACCORDING TO THE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS NOW EXISTING. — Continued. Name of Species. 1 Yukon. I < Pacific. Mackenzie. Hudson Bay. Canada. Labrador. Margaritana var. falcata o O Unio complanatus o O Quadrula plicata O O 0 O Quadrula lachrymosa o o O O Sphserium simile o O Sphaerium striatinum o o O O O O O O o o o O O Sphoeriuni fabale o O o o O o Sphserium eniarginatum o o Sphaerium tumidum o o Sphaerium raymondi o Sphaerium partumeium o o o o Sphaerium tenue O o O o O o O o o Corneocyclas virginica o o o Corneocyclas idahoensis o Corneocyclas scutellata o Corneocyclas aequilateralis o o o Corneocyclas compressa o o o Corneocyclas variabilis o o o Corneocyclas abdita o o o o o Corneocyclas ventricosa o o o Corneocyclas rotundata o o Corneocyclas steenbuchi 0* Corneocyclas occidentalis o Corneocyclas ultramontana o Corneocyclas arctica o Corneocyclas nivalis o Corneocyclas glacialis o Corneocyclas pulchella o Corneocyclas henslowana o o GENERAL DISCUSSION 7 II. SUMMARY OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE LAND SHELLS OF ALASKA AND ADJACENT REGIONS. I have summarized the distribution of the fresh water shells by drainage areas, as perhaps the least objectionable method of connecting the facts of distribution. But the land shells require a somewhat different treatment, since their distribution has noth- ing to do with currents of water, though sometimes a snail may be carried in the spring freshets under the bark of a floating log, and by rare chance survive to be stranded by the falling waters somewhere down stream. A certain amount of move- ment of the minute forms may result from the distribution by high winds of dead leaves and other light material to which the smaller land shells are accustomed to adhere. Pieces of ice from smaller brooks carried by freshets may also convey a cer- tain distance and deposit, when stranded by falling water, pieces of bark or leaves containing snails or their eggs. Such chances are too rare to be made much account of, and doubtless the dis- tribution of our smaller snails is brought about in the main by the slow movement of individuals. The Pulmonate fauna of Alaska is composed of four elements : contributions from the faunas of Asia, of the Pacific Coast of America, of the Canadian (or Hudsonian) region, and of the circumboreal or common subarctic fauna of the whole northern hemisphere. In tabulating the distribution of the species a column may be reserved for each of these elements : the circumboreal column being headed ' Europe.' A column may be reserved for Green- land, and another for the approximate highest north latitude which the species is known to attain. This means for the snail not so much differences of temperature corresponding to latitude, as differences of period in activity, which diminish as one pro- ceeds northward. Snails at Point Barrow must remain in a state of hibernation at least nine months in the year, and I sus- pect that this more probably brings a limiting strain on the vitality of the organism than would the mere occurrence at times of a specially low temperature. LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS TABLE II. DISTRIBUTION OF AMERICAN LAND SHELLS NORTH OF LATITUDE 4Q°. Name of Species. «' 3 1 J Pacific. Canadian. Greenland. 1 w i K Helix hortensis o o 14.°OC/ Epiphragmophora fidelis o o o 17 OO Zoogenites harpa o o o o 66 oo Vallonia pulchel la o o o o CA OO Vallonia costata o o o 51 oo Vallonia gracilicosta o 12 20 Vallonia albula o o 50 oo Vallonia asiatica o o o CQ oo Polygyra devia o 50 oo Polygyra columbiana o o 60 oo Polygyra townsendiana o 50 oo Polygyra germana o 40 OO Polygyra monodon o 5 1 20 Polygyra albolabris o C2 OO Strobilops labyrinthica o 5 1 20 Bifidaria armifera o C2 IO Bifidaria contracta o CO OO Bifidaria holzingeri o 52 10 Bifidaria pentodon o 51 20 Pupilla blandi o 12 IO Pupilla muscorum o o o CO OO Vertigo hoppii o o 7O OO Vertigo modesta o o o o 6^? oo Vertigo columbiana o o 17 OO Vertigo gouldii o 11 OO Vertigo ventricosa o 11 21 Vertigo binneyana o o So oo Vertigo ovata o o o o ^7 3^ Vertigo arctica o o o 6s i< Cochlicopa lubrica o o o o o 7 1 2O o o *>Q co Circinaria van chocolata o 17 oo Circinaria sportella o o 5Q OO Circinaria var. hybrida o o 11 oo Vitrina angelicae o 72 OO Vitrina limpida o *?4 OO Vitrina alaskana o o 57 3O Vitrea radiatula o o o o o 71 20 Vitrea nitidula o o 61 oo Vitrea binneyana o o 50 oo Vitrea indentata o 1O OO Euconulus trochiformis o o o o o o 70 oo Zonitoides nitidus o o o o o 61 oo Zonitoides arboreus o o o o 61 oo Zonitoides randolphi o 1Q ^o Zonitoides minusculus o o o 59 °° Zonitoides milium 0 50 oo Zonitoides pugetensis o 49 oo Pristiloma lansingi o 49 oo Pristiloma stearnsii o o 19 ^o GENERAL DISCUSSION TABLE II. DISTRIBUTION OF AMERICAN LAND SHELLS NORTH OF LATITUDE 49°. — Continued. Name of Species. 4 < < Pacific. Canadian. Greenland. §• w J K Pristiloma taylori o d.Q°OO/ Pristiloma ? arctica o 71 25 Agriolimax agrestis o o o (?) o 61 oo Agriolimax hyperboreus o o o o o 65 oo Agriolimax berendti o A.Q OO Prophysaon andersoni o 4.0 OO Prophysaon var. pallidum o o C4, 4.5 Prophysaon var. pacificum o 4.0 OO Prophysaon humile o o 55 -jg Ariolimax columbianus o o 58 00 Pyramidula solitaria o o 52 OO Pyramidula striatella o 61 oo Pyramidula cronkhi tei o o 61 oo Pyramidula asteriscus (?) o 49 °° Oreohelix strigosa o 40 30 Oreohelix var. cooperi o 40 OO Helicodiscus lineatus o o 50 oo Punctual pygmaeum o o 50 oo Punctum clappi o 40 OO Punctum conspectum o o o 60 oo Sphyradium edentulum o o o o o 65 20 Succinea oregonensis o 4.0 OO Succinea retusa o o o 67 oo Succinea hawkinsi o o 57 oo Succinea avara o 62 oo Succinea gronlandica O 65 oo Succinea gros venori o 62 oo Succinea var. alaskana o o 63 *o Succinea r usticana o 49 oo Succinea nuttalliana o 49 oo Succinea obliqua o 61 oo Succinea chrysis o o O 65 30 Siphonaria thersites o o 60 30 Onchidium boreale o o 60 30 Carychium exiguum o o 50 oo Carychium exile o 50 oo III. SUMMARY OF THE MOLLUSK FAUNA OF NORTHEAST- ERN ASIA. The land shell fauna of the northeast extremity of Asia has little individuality, but represents a mingling of the depauper- ated extremes of the faunas of northeast China, and of Europe, with that series of species which is sometimes called the circum- polar or circumboreal fauna. IO LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS Much of the apparent poverty of the fauna may be due to insufficient collecting, but even when the most generous allow- ance for this factor is made, it still remains certain that the molluscan population is far less in variety than might reasonably be expected. The Palearctic fauna of Europe appears to extend clear across northern Asia, losing a large proportion of its species on the way, until (if the circumboreal species be excluded) only about thirty species reach the headwaters of the Lena and the barrier of the Stanovoi Range. A very remarkable local fauna exists in the great ' relicten-see ' of Siberia, Lake Baikal, but it does not appear to have tinctured the east Siberian fresh water fauna outside of that lake, to any appreciable extent. It is possible that the comparatively recent emergence of a large part of eastern Siberia from the sea, and the presence of the vast desert region to the south and west, may enter into the explanation of this sparse shell fauna, as well as of some of the peculiarities of the Baikal faunula. Southeast of the Stanovoi Range we find between the moun- tains and the sea, the valley of the Amur and several smaller valleys, such as the drainage basins of the Ud and the Tugar. To the southwest the sources of the Amur emerge from the deserts of Gobi and Dauria, and along the line of these water courses has crept a certain number of molluscan forms inti- mately related to or identical with those of Mongolia, China, and the Orient. This forms the second element of the fauna of northeast Siberia. The number of purely endemic species is remarkably small, and a portion of those claimed to be of this character are probably mere local mutations of widespread Palearctic forms already known. Yet it would seem as if a more thorough exploration must add largely to the species now known, and it is almost incredible that the luxuriant fertile valleys of Kamchatka and the innumerable streams and lakes of that country should not be well populated with mollusks. There are few species which seem to be common to the shores of Bering Sea, both Asiatic and American, such as Succinea chrystS) Punctum conspectum and Anodonta beringiana. There GENERAL DISCUSSION II is one local species, Eulota iveyrichi, known only from Sak- halin Island ; * and another, Helicigona sub^per sonata, from the valley of the Ud. Three forms of Vivtpara (of which two are probably variants of Chinese forms) are the only local species of the vast Amur valley, or drainage, not known from other regions. Nine specially Kamchatkan species have been de- scribed, but about half of them are doubtfully distinct. The total number of land and fresh water mollusks known from the Amurland, Sakhalin, Kamchatka, the Chukchi Penin- sula, and the Asiatic coast north of the Amur and east of the Stanovoi Range, is only eighty-two. Of these, thirteen are circumboreal species and twelve are supposed to be locally peculiar. The remainder are distributed as follows : Percent Europe and west Siberia 55 Northeast China 22 Common to America 13 Erratic species 10 Of these erratic species a few may be especially mentioned. Margaritana margaritifera, as is well known, is absent from the whole of the great northern central region of North America, though it appears in the lower Saskatchewan, the sources of the Missouri, and in eastern Canada, while on the Pacific it ascends at least to latitude 56° N. In eastern Asia it is known from Kamchatka, Sakhalin Island, the upper portion of the Amur basin, and southern Mongolia, but I find no authoritative record of it thence westward to northern and middle Europe. Schrenck did not find it on the lower Amur. Physa fontinalis is reported from the upper Amur and (in a duck's crop) the desert of Dauria, but is not known from Siberia proper, though common in Europe. There is an entire absence of typical Physa throughout east Siberia, so far as reported ; and only one species of Ancylus or Unto is known from east of the Yenisei River of Siberia. 1In a recent paper Hugh Fulton describes Eulota fllexibilis and E. (Euhadra} fiscina n. sp. as "probably" from Sakhalin Island; but this seems to me very doubtful when we consider the size of these shells and the fact that the warmest part of Sakhalin has a mean annual temperature of only 33.4° F. and for six months of the year the mean is below the freezing point. The shells are more probably from Yesso. 12 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS Aplexa hypnorum is known from northern Europe, western Siberia, and the Chukchi Peninsula, but has not been reported from eastern Siberia, or the Amur, though abundant in Alaska, and reaching on the Taimyr Peninsula to 73° 30' north latitude. Zoogenites harpa is known from northern Scandinavia in Europe ; from northeastern America, the Hudson Bay territory and Southeastern Alaska, in America; but in Siberia it is re- corded only from the easternmost margin, the Chukchi Penin- sula, Bering Island, Kamchatka and the lower Amur. These singularities of distribution must await much more extended knowledge before they can be adequately discussed, but it is believed that to some extent they are due to the transgression of the sea, or of glacial ice, over part of the area in which a species might naturally be expected to occur, thus delaying the occupation of the entire region by the species concerned. In the following table the distribution is indicated by the headings of the six columns. Varieties are not included when the typical form appears in the table. Column ' Eur.' includes those forms recorded as found in Eu- rope, including the whole of European Russia and the Caucasus. Column ' Lena ' includes the drainage of the Lena and the whole of Siberia from the Lena westward to the Ural Moun- tains. It should be noted that a number of species which reach the Lena from the west do not cross the Stanovoi Range. Column * Amur ' includes the Amur drainage basin, the Island of Sakhalin, and the smaller drainage areas between the Amur and the Stanovoi Range. Column ' China ' includes those forms which, having their center of distribution in China or Japan, extend their range to the drainage basin of the Amur, though often reaching only the southern and eastern part of it. Column ' Kam.' indicates species belonging to the area in- cluded in the Kuril Islands, the Commander Islands, Kamchatka proper, the Chukchi Peninsula, and northeastern Siberia east of the Stanovoi Range and north of Aian. Column 'Am.' includes those forms found in the Aleutian Islands, northern and northwest America, which also occur on the Asiatic side. GENERAL DISCUSSION 13 The nomenclature is brought up to date as far as possible. The absence from the list of certain names which appear in the memoirs of Schrenck, Middendorff, and others, is only apparent ; they are really present under their revised names. I have accepted Simpson's determination of the Naiades, and retain, for the variety of Unto pictorum which occurs in eastern Siberia, the early name adopted by Rossmassler from Ziegler's MS., rather than the very recent one which has been proposed by Wester- lund. The list of Amurland mollusks in the Vega Expedition report includes several which belong only to the Lena province or western Siberia and do not occur on the Amur. The material examined from which this and the preceding tables have been prepared, has been derived from several sources. The collections of the National Museum containing the boreal shells upon which the work of W. G. Binney was partly founded, have been of great help. I have also had the kind cooperation of Dr. J. F. Whiteaves of the Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada. My own collections from 1865 to 1899 in Kamchatka and Alaska have furnished much material. I have also had interesting collections from Messrs. Randolph, McGregor, Stoney, Hepburn, Arnheim, Krause, Palmer and others who have visited Alaska for pleasure or in the Government service. The collections actually made during the Harriman Expedition were more interesting than extensive, but have helped considerably, especially those due to the energy of Prof. Trevor Kincaid, of Seattle, while engaged in his entomological researches. LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS TABLE III. DISTRIBUTION OF NORTHEAST ASIATIC LAND AND FRESH WATER SHELLS. Name of Species. 1 j 1 1 u B 0) M e Zoogenites harpa Say o o o o Vallonia adela West o o o Vallonia pulchella Miiller o o o o Vallonia costata Miiller o o o o Helicigona subpersonata Midd o Hygromia hispida L . .. o o o Hygromia rufescens Penn o o o Hygromia stuxbergi West o o Kulota arcasiana Crosse o o Eulota maackii Gerstf. o o Kulota middendorffii Gerstf. o o Eulota ravida Benson o o Eulota schrenckii Midd o o o o Eulota selskii Gerstf. o o Eulota weyrichii Schrenck Sak. Pupilla muscorum L o o o o Vertigo alpestris Alder o o o o Vertigo arctica Wall o o o Vertigo krauseana Reinh o o Vertigo borealis Morel o Cochlicopa lubrica Miiller o o o o o o Vitrina exilis Morel o o Vitrina pellucida Miiller o o o Vitrea radiatula Alder o o o o o Euconulus trochiformis Montagu o o o o o Zonitoides arboreus Say ? o o o Limax agrestis L o o o o o Limax hyperboreus West o o ? o o Arion hortensis Fer o o o Arion ater L o o o Incilaria bilineata Benson o o Pyramidula ruderata Studer o o o o o Punctum conspectura Bland o o Punctum ? floccula Morel o Sphyradium edentulum Drap o o o o Succinea putris L o o o o Succinea chrysis West o o Lymnaea stagnalis L o o o o o Lymnaea peregra Miiller o o o o Lymnaea auricular! a L o o o o o Lymnaea ovata Drap o o o o o o Lymnaea kamchatica Midd o Lymnaea palustris Miiller 0 o o o o Lymnaea truncatula Miiller o o o o o Planorbis limophilus West o o o Planorbis nitidus Miiller o o o Planorbis contortus Miiller o o o Planorbis carinatus Miiller o o o Planorbis borealis (Loven) West o o o o o Planorbis kamchaticus West o Planorbis mollendorffii Dyb o Planorbis albus Miiller < o o o o o Physa fontinalis L o o o GENERAL DISCUSSION TABLE III. DISTRIBUTION OF NORTHEAST ASIATIC LAND AND FRESH WATER SHELLS. Continued. Name of Specie*. 1 3 8 I £ 8 Aplexa hypnorum L o o Q o Carychium minimum Miiller o o o o o o o o o Valvata piscinalis Miiller o o o o o o Vivipara limnaeoides Schr o o ? o ? Kvthinia troscheli Paasch o o Bytbinia kickxii Westend , o o o Bythinia striatula Benson o o Melania cancellata Benson o o Sphaerium corneum L o o o o o o Sphserium asiaticum Mts o o o Corneocyclas amnica Muller o o Corneocyclas abdita Hald o o o o o Corneocyclas sequilateralis Pr o o Corneocyclas sibirica Clessin o o o Cristaria herculea Midd o o Cristaria plicata Leach o o o o o o Anodonta woodiana Lea o o Margaritana margaritifera L o o o o o Unio pictorum L. var. longirostris Rossmassler..., o o o IV. CONCLUSIONS IN REGARD TO THE ALASKAN FAUNA. The fauna of Alaska, so far as the land and fresh water shells considered in this paper enable us to judge, is composite. The mollusks are characteristic especially of two, and to a much smaller extent of two other, faunas. The former are limited by topographic features. Thus the fauna of boreal Canada, in constantly diminishing number of species, is extended to the northwest, north of the Alaskan Range to Bering Sea on the west and the Arctic Coast on the north. In like manner the fauna of the northern part of the Pacific States is extended west of the ranges which in the north repre- sent the Rocky Mountains, and between them and the sea, northward into British Columbia and thence westward into Alaska, south of the Alaskan Range, until the last representa- 1 6 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS tives of the fauna disappear among the islands of the Aleutian chain. In British Columbia a few species belong to the valley region between the Rockies and the Cascade Mountains, and do not reach the sea coast, but these are too few to modify perceptibly the general rule, and as a matter of fact they, like the valleys themselves, soon disappear after crossing the 49th parallel. Very much the same thing is true of the birds, as I was able to demonstrate some thirty five years ago ; and even the marine mollusks of the Alaskan coast form a somewhat analogous assembly. The other two faunas concerned are those (i) of Asia, or rather eastern Siberia, that part of Asia nearest to Alaska, and (2) the Holarctic or circumboreal group of species which are common to the entire boreal zone and characteristic of it, though rather few in number. In referring to the Canadian fauna it will of course be clearly understood that the fauna of that part of Canada discussed in this paper and not the entire fauna of the whole Dominion is meant. With this reservation we may proceed to discuss the matter from the statistical point of view. One hundred and forty seven species or strongly marked varieties are enumerated here from the Canadian region as above limited, and fifteen other forms are mentioned which though not known to cross the boundary yet in all proba- bility will eventually be found to do so. By reference to the preceding tables the extension of each species will be found recorded, and the particular localities as far as discov- erable are enumerated in the following text. Forty one spe- cies are known from the Alaskan extension of this fauna north of the Alaskan Mountains, or characteristic of that part of the territory. Half of these are circumboreal or Holarctic forms. The fauna of British Columbia, or the British Columbian extension of what I many years ago designated the Oregon- ian fauna, comprises seventy five species, so far as known, to which in all probability should be added some thirty eight which are known to approach the parallel of 49° from the south and GENERAL DISCUSSION 17 whicn probably cross it, making a probable total British Colum- bian fauna of one hundred and thirteen forms. Considering the very small area occupied by this assembly, when compared with the vast expanse populated by the Canadian fauna, the number is notable. Doubtless in both cases future exploration will add a reasonable number not now enumerated or still undescribed by naturalists. The contributions from the Columbian assembly to the fauna of Alaska south of the Alaskan and west of the Cascade Ranges comprise thirty five known and six probable species, a total of forty one forms probably inhabiting the area referred to. Some of these, however, are common to northern Alaska also, making the proper deduction for which we find sixty five species of land and fresh water mollusks known to inhabit the territory of Alaska, with six or seven more which are likely with further exploration to be credited to it in addition to those now known, even if no undescribed species turn up. The vast unexplored areas, the uncertainties connected with lists of obsolete names • and doubtful identifications, the doubt as to what may be considered specific limits in groups of noto- rious variability, and especially the frequent absence of specimens from which better deductions might have been drawn than were possible from the extant literature, have all contributed to the difficulties under which this memoir has been prepared. Those who have done work on similar lines will understand, and will view without undue severity, the imperfections which the author only too well realizes, and yet which it was out of his power, in the present state of our knowledge, to avoid. It is hoped, however, that this summary will make the path somewhat easier for those who follow him, and contribute a reasonable share to the better appreciation of the facts of Nature of which it treats. And if, among the hardy explorers of whom our neighbors of Canada are justly proud, this paper serves to stimulate an increased interest in the subject, the author will feel that his endeavors are amply repaid. SYSTEMATIC CATALOGUE OF LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS OF NORTH AMERICA FROM THE REGION NORTH OF THE FORTY-NINTH PARALLEL. The following annotated catalogue is intended to contain a list of all the species known to inhabit the designated region, with the addition of a few which approach the boundary so closely that it is highly probable that on further search their range will be found to cross it. Names of species belonging to the latter category are preceded by an asterisk. It is intended that the synonymy which follows the name shall exhibit references to the original description of the species, to a good figure, and to the work in which the synonymy, if at all complicated, may be found most fully set forth. The syn- onymy of some of the genera mentioned seeming to be in great need of elucidation, an attempt has been made to clear it up. In other cases, where the work has elsewhere recently been done, the generic name and authority alone are cited. For the HclicidfB and associated forms I have depended upon the ar- rangement of Dr. H. A. Pilsbry, the acknowledged master of the subject ; and for the Naiades, in like manner, on the * Synopsis ' of Mr. Chas. T. Simpson. Some of the other groups I had previously worked up elsewhere, and have utilized the results in this catalogue. After the synonymy it has been attempted to state the range of the species geographically, in general terms. This state- ment is followed by a citation of special localities within the designated region from which the species has been reported, and in those cases in which the writer has verified the report by the examination of specimens, the name of the locality is followed by an exclamation mark. These data are exemplified or explained by notes following the details of geographical distribution in a separate paragraph. The data in many cases have been taken from the literature, a bibliography of which concludes this paper ; and it follows that the resent writer assumes no responsibility for the identifi- (19) 2O LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS cation of species so derived. Usually, however, there is no particular reason for doubting the accuracy of these identifica- tions. It has not seemed necessary, in most cases, to cite the authority for the locality, a course which would have unduly increased the bulk and diminished the clearness of the distribu- tional statement. The authority, as a rule, can easily be found by reference to the bibliography. In a few cases, however, it has seemed desirable to include in parentheses the authority for the locality cited, especially when the latter seemed unusual or debatable. Family HELICHXffi. Genus Helix (L.) Pilsbry. Helix (Cepaea) hortensis Miiller. Helix hortensis MULLER, Verm. Terr, et Fluv., n, p. 52, 1774. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., i, p. 181, figs. 317-320, 1869. Helix subglobosa BINNEY, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., I, p. 485, pi. xvi, 1867. Range. — Europe from Hungary to the Atlantic between middle Scandinavia and the Pyrenees, northeastern border of North America. Labrador ; Newfoundland ; Anticosti Island ! Barachois, Gaspe ; Cape Breton Island ! * Halifax ! Casco Bay, Maine ! shore of Cape Ann and adjacent islets, Mass.! Nantucket Island! Pleistocene deposits near Portland, Maine ! A single specimen was once found in Greenland, but was doubtless imported accidentally. The prevalent type is light yellow, without or with only faint traces of bands. The former is Binney's H. subglobosa. The wide distribution of the species, often on un- inhabitable islets off a coast little frequented, and its presence, which I have verified, in the glacial Pleis- tocene of Maine, tend to confirm the view that it is a prehistoric immigrant if an immigrant at all. FIG. i. Helix I have seen most of the commoner varieties which hortensts var. are prevalent in Europe, but it is obvious to the col- subglobosa Bin- Jector thaf the brighter colored types with snarply define ddark bands form an insignificant proportion of the American specimens ; while the shells as a whole seem smaller than the average dimensions of European specimens. 1 The exclamation point indicates that specimens from this locality have been seen by me and verified as correctly identified. FAMILY HELICID^E 21 Helix (Arianta) arbustorum L. has been noted as an introduced species, at St. John, Newfoundland, just outside of our region, by Whiteaves. Genus Epiphragmophora Doering. Epiphragmophora fidelis Gray. Helix fidelis GRAY, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1834, p. 67 ; Conch. Cab., 2d ed., Mon. Helix, p. 321, pi. LVII, figs. 12, 13. Helix nuttalliana LEA, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., vi, p. 88, pi. xxm, fig. 74, 1839. Epiphragmophora fidelis PILSBRY, Class. Cat. N. Am. Landsh., p. 4, 1897. Range. — Northern California to Sitka, Alaska. Sumas Prairie, Fraser River valley, B. C. (common to 6,000 ft., J. K. Lord) ; Chilliwak Lake, B. C. ; Victoria ! Nanaimo ! Comox ! on Vancouver Island; Growler Cove, Broughton Strait; Union Bay! False Bay, Lasqueti Id. ; Malaspina Inlet ; N. point Texada Island, British Columbia ; Sitka, Alaska ! The Sitkan and Columbian specimens are apparently not markedly different from those collected further south, and pass through the same color variations. If there is any difference it is that the northern speci- mens are a little smaller and exhibit no tendency to pilosity. The two specimens obtained at Sitka were found near the Hot Springs. There is no evidence in regard to the distribution of the species north of Sitka, but it would not be surprising if it were eventually found to extend on the outer islands as far north as Cross Sound. Genus Zoogenites Morse. This group has been united with the Acanthinula of Beck, of which, it would seem, little is known but the shell, while we have, thanks to Morse, a very satisfactory account of our mollusk. I prefer therefore to defer any consolidation with Acanthinula until it is shown to be necessary. The information to be had from Moquin Tandon in regard to Acanthinula aculeata is unsatisfactory and insufficient. Westerlund (1902) has proposed a genus Aulaca to contain both (prior) genera ! Zoogenites harpa Say. Helix harpa SAY, Rep, Long's Exped., II, p. 256, pi. xv, fig. I, 1824 ; Bin- ney's Say, p. 29, pi. LXXIV, fig. i. Pupa costulata MIGHELS, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., I, p. 187, 1844. Bulimus harpa PFEIFFER, Conch. Cat., ed. n, Bulimus, p. 305, pi. LX, figs. 17-19. Helix amurensis GERSTFELDT, M6m. des. Sav. etr., ix, p. 517, pi. i, figs. 26, a-c, 1859. 22 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS Zoogenites harpa MORSE, Journ. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., I, p 32, pi. I, figs. 1-14, 1864; Am. Nat., i, p. 608, figs. 50-51, 1868. Acanthinula harpa BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., I, p. 156, figs. 267-9, 1869 ; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 28, p. 185, figs. 181-184, 1885. Zoogenetes harpa auct. plur. Range. — Northwestern Scandinavia, northeastern America, British America near Hudson Bay, Southeastern Alaska, and the easternmost margin of Siberia. Konyam Bay, eastern Siberia ; Avacha Bay, Kamchatka ! Bering Island, Commander group ; lower Amur River region. Klehini, Chil- kat Inlet and valley, Alaska ; English River, Manitoba ! Moose Factory ! Hudson Bay ; Minnesota ; Gaspe ; New England ; etc. The peculiarities of the distribution of this curious little mollusk are referred to in the general discussion of the fauna of northeastern Asia. Genus Vallonia Risso. Vallonia Risso, Hist. Eur. Men, iv, p. 101, 1826; V. rosalia Risso, pi. 3, fig. 30, = Helix costata Miiller. Zurama LEACH, Proofsheets, p. 108, 1819. — TURTON, Man., p. 64, 1831 ; Gray's Turton, p. 141, 1840. — LEACH, Syn. Moll. Gt. Brit., p. 77, 1852 ; H. pulchella Miiller. Amplexis BROWN, 111. Conch. Gt. Brit., expl. pi. XLI, figs. 75-79, 1827; H. pulchella Miiller. Amplexus BROWN, op. tit., 2d ed., p. 45, 1844. Chilostonta (sp.) FITZINGER, Syst. Verz., p. 98, 1833. Circinaria (sp.) BECK, Index Moll., p. 23, 1837. Glaphyra ALBERS, Heliceen, p. 87, 1850. Lucena MOQUIN TANDON, Hist. Moll. Terr, et Fluv. France, n, pp. 98, 140, 1855 ; not of Oken, 1815, or Hartmann, 1821. Vallonia pulchella Miiller. Helix pulchella MULLER, Verm. Terr., n, p. 30, 1774. — BINNEY, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., in, p. 375, pi. ix, fig. 2, 1840. — W. G. BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., I, p. 157 (ex parte), figs. 270-1, 1869. FIG. 2. Vallonia pulchella, |. Helix minuta SAY, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, p. 123, 1819. — MORSE, Am. Nat., i, p. 544, fig. 39, 1867. Helix paludosa DACosTA, Brit. Conch., p. 59, 1778. Vallonia minuta MORSE, Journ. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., I, p. 21, figs. 54- 56, pi. vin, fig. 57, 1864. FAMILY HELICID^E 23 Range. — Europe ; North Africa, southern and western Siberia to the Amur ; Madeira ; the Azores ; eastern North America from Manitoba to Florida and Montana to Nova Scotia. Manitoba, at Winnipeg and Pembina ; north to the Saskatchewan (Richardson). Introduced? in Calif ornia. Although Risso's figure of V. rosalia represents a perfectly smooth shell, his diagnosis calls for one with elevated lamella? ; it is probable therefore that he regarded the present species and V. costata as varie- ties of a single species. Vallonia costata Miiller. Helix costata MULLER, Verm. Terr., n, p. 31, 1774. Helix crenella MONTAGU, Test. Brit., I, p. 441, pi. xiii, fig. 3, 1804. Helix pulchella var. ROSSMASSLER, vii, p. 6, fig. 439, 1838. — FERUSSAC, Hist., pi. LXIX E, figs. 15-17, 1821. Range. — With V. pulchella in Europe and Asia ; in America in the northern States and northward from Kansas and Colorado. Manitoba (Hanham). This species has been so constantly confused with the other costate species and with V. pulchella that it is hardly practicable to determine its true range from the literature. Vallonia gracilicosta Reinhardt. Vallonia gracilicosta REINHARDT, Sitz. Ber. der Ges. Naturf. Freunde zu Ber- lin, 1883, No. 3, p. 42. Little Missouri. Range. — Rocky Mountain region, westward and northward from the upper Missouri. Manitoba, at Winnipeg; in Alberta at Laggan. Red Deer Olds and McLeod. Easily recognized by its very prominent, not crowded, very oblique lamellae . Vallonia albula Sterki. Vallonia albula STERKI, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1893, p. 263, pi. vm, figs. D, o ; Nautilus, ix, p. 17, May, 1895. Range. — Eastern Canada to British Columbia. Quebec ; Manitoba ; Vancouver Island. Vallonia asiatica Nevill. Helix costata var. asiatica NEVILL, Sci. Results 2d Yarkand Mission, p. 4, No. 7, 1877. Vallonia asiatica REINHARDT, Sitz. Ber. der Ges. Naturf. Freunde zu Berlin, 1883, No. 3, p. 42. Range. — Central Asia, Tibet. Alaska. 24 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS Pyramid Island, Lynn Canal, Alaska. Jide Reinhardt. This form, collected by Dr. Krause, was identified by Dr. Rein- hardt with Nevill's species and is included here solely on his authority, as I have not seen specimens. Genus Polygyra Say. Polygyra devia Gould. Helix de-via GOULD, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., n, p. 165, 1846. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., I, p. 152, fig. 259, 1869. Helix baskervillei PFEIFFER, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 130, 1849. — REEVE, Conch. Icon., Helix, fig. 684, 1852. Polygyra devia PILSBRY, Class. Cat. N. Am. Landsh., p. 11, 1897. Range. — Washington and Idaho, north into British Columbia. Sumas Prairie, B. C. ; Esquimalt, Vancouver Island. Polygyra columbiana Lea. Helix columbiana LEA, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., vi, p. 89, pi. xxiu, fig. 75, 1839. — BINNEY, Terr. Moll., n, p. 169, pi. v, 1851. Helix labiosa GOULD, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., n, p. 165, 1846 ; Expl. Exp. Moll., p. 67, fig. 35, 1852. Polygyra columbiana PILSBRY, Class. Cat. N. Am. Landsh., p. 11, 1897. Range. — Monterey Bay, California, to Yakutat Bay, Alaska, in the moist wooded region west of the Rocky Mountains. Mountains of Idaho, western Montana and Washington ; Vancouver Island at Victoria ! Nanaimo and Nootka ; British Columbia mainland on banks of Fraser River (Lord) and Skeena River ! (Osgood) ; Har- bledown and Pender Islands, Johnstone Strait; Union Bay! Port Simpson; and Cumshewa Inlet, Queen Charlotte Islands ! B. C. ; in Alaska at Cape Fox ! Annette Island, Killisnoo, Sitka ! Lynn Canal ; Biorka Island ! Chilkat valley ! Lituya Bay ! Yakutat ! There are several varieties of this widespread and familiar species. First, the type, subconic rather elevated and small, with narrow re- flexed lip. Lea's specimen was decorticated and showed no signs of the hairs -with which the shell is usually covered, but this was accidental ; some specimens normally show hardly a trace of the hairs which are usually so conspicuous. The second variety, P. labiosa Gould, is larger, more depressed relatively, with a broader, somewhat flexuous reflected lip. This form is more prevalent in the interior of Washing- ton, Idaho, etc., and more often has a parietal tooth or trace of a tooth. The variety santacruzensis is in form more like the type but much smaller, thin, lighter colored, with a sparser pelage, and about half the specimens have a trace of a parietal tooth, while in a lot of about seven hundred columbiana, from Sitka, I found only one specimen FAMILY HELICID^E 25 which had any parietal tooth. The mountain forms from California, if not hybrids, are so very different from the hairy coast or lowland shells that one is tempted to regard them as distinct ; they frequently are rough, hairless, with heavy lip and well marked parietal tooth. A young specimen of the typical form, collected near Yakutat Village by the Harriman Expedition, is reversed. Some specimens of this and another species, both of which are con- fined to wooded regions so far as authentically known, were once sent me as from a point considerably north of Yakutat and from the tree- less region. I do not believe these shells were correctly labelled, and hence have not included them in the list of localities. My own im- pression is that the extension northward of this species and Circinaria vancouverensis has been prevented by the wide stretch of glacial area just north and west from Yakutat Bay. I have searched for this species at Prince William Sound and Cook Inlet, in suitable situa- tions, but without success. Polygyra townsendiana Lea. Helix townsendiana LEA, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., VI, p. 99, pi. xxm, fig. 80, 1839. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., I, p. 164, fig. 285, 1869. Range. — Puget Sound region and south (to northern Califor- nia ?) . Seattle, Wash. ; Lake Chilliwak and Sumas Prairie, British Columbia. Eastward from the moist coast region the following species oc- curs and is sometimes regarded as a depauperate form of P. town- sendiana . * Polygyra ptychophora Brown. Helix ptychophora A. D. BROWN, Journ. de Conchyl., 3me Sen, x, p. 392, Oct., 1870. Arionta townsendiana var. ptychophora, BINNEY, Man. Am. Landsh., p. 129, fig. 102, 1885. Range. — Western Montana (at Deer Lodge) westward through northern Idaho to Spokane, Wash., and to The Dalles, in northern Oregon. It is possible that this form may hereafter be found on the northern side of the boundary. Polygyra germana Gould. Helix germana GOULD, U. S. Expl. Exp., Moll., p. 70, fig. 40, a-c, 1852. Stenotrema gennanum (GOULD) BINNEY, Man. Am. Landsh., p. 114, fig. 82, 1885. Range. — Northern California, through the Puget Sound region to British Columbia. 26 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS Astoria, Oregon ! Victoria, Vancouver Island ; Chilli wak Lake, British Columbia. A variety megasoma, more than four times the size of the typical germana, but otherwise quite similar, is occasionally found ; some from northern California (Stearns) are in the National Museum. Polygyra monodon Rackett. Helix monodon RACKETT, Trans. Linnean Soc., xm, p. 42, pi. v, fig. 2, 1822. — MORSE, Am. Nat, i, p. 151, figs. 12, 13, 1867. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., I, p. 120, figs. 200- 205, 1869. Range. — Eastern United States, east of the plains region, from Texas to Minnesota and northward. Moose Factory, James Bay ! FIG. 3. Poly- gyra monodon Rackett. Polygyra albolabris Say. Helix albolabris SAY, Nicholson's Encycl., ist Am. ed., pi. I, fig. I, 1817 ; Am. Conch., II, pi. xn, 1831. — MORSE, Am. Nat., i, p. 6, pi. i, figs, i-u, 1867. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., I, p. 136, figs. 229-232, 1869. Range. — Eastern United States, from Georgia and Arkansas north- ward to the Saskatchewan. FIGS. 4-6. Polygyra albolabris Say, \. Lake Superior region ; Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba ; and northward to the Saskatchewan River (Richardson). FAMILY PUPID^E 27 Family PUPIDJE. Genus Strobilops Pilsbry. 7- Animal from above. 8. f . 9. Showing internal lamellae. FIGS. 7-9. Strobilops labyrinthica (magnified). Strobilops labyrinthica Say. Helix labyrinthica SAY, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I, p. 124, 1817. — MORSE, Am. Nat., i, p. 145, figs. 41-42, 1867. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., i, p. 84, figs. 150-154, 1869. Strobila labyrinthica MORSE, Journ. Portland Soc. N. Hist. , I, p. 26, figs. 64- 67, pi. n, fig. 12, a-b, pi. viii, fig. 68, 1864. Strobilops PILSBRY, 1892, new name for Strobila Morse, 1864, not Sars, 1835. Range. — Eastern United States, from Texas north- ward to British America. Carberry, Manitoba ; Moose Factory, James Bay ! Genus Bifidaria Sterki. Bifidaria armifera Say. Pupa armifera SAY, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., u, p. 162, 1821. — GOULD, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., in, p. 400, pi. in, fig. 10, 1840. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., i, p. 241, fig. 419, 1869. FlG- I0- Blfida- —. ria arm ife r a Range. — The United States east of the Rocky (magnified). Mountains, and Canada. Red Deer, Alberta ; Brandon, Manitoba. Bifidaria contracta Say. Pupa contracta SAY, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., n, p. 374, 1822. — GOULD, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., in, p. 399, pi. in, fig. 22, 1840. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., i, p. 242, figs. 420-422, 1869. Range. — Eastern North America from Mexico FIG. ii. Bifid- aria contracta to British America, east of the Rocky Mountains. (magnified). Carberry, Manitoba. 28 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS Bifidaria holzingeri Sterki. Pupa holzingeri STERKI, Nautilus, in, No. 4, p. 37, Aug., 1889. — BINNEY, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xix, No. 4, p. 193, fig., p. 194, 1890. Bifidaria holzingeri PILSBRY, Class. Cat., p. 19, 1898. Range. — Illinois and Kansas, northward to British America. Red River drift, Brandon, Manitoba; Red Deer, Alberta. Bifidaria pentodon Say. Vertigo pentodon SAY, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., II, p. 376, 1822. Pupa pentodon GOULD, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., iv, p. 353, pi. xvi, figs. 10-11, 1843. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., I, p. 236, figs. 405- 409, 1869. a b c FIG. 12. Bifidaria pentodon (magnified), showing variations in aperture. Range. — Eastern United States from Texas to British America; southeastern Nevada, Quebec ; Ontario ; Manitoba (rare) ; Alberta, at Laggan. Genus Pupilla (Leach) Turton. Pupilla blandi Morse. Pupilla blandi MORSE, Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist., vni, p. 211, fig. 8, 1865. Pupa blandi BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., i, p. 235, fig. 402, 1869. ? Pupa signata WESTERLUND, 1885, not of Mousson. Range. — Upper Missouri, Rocky Mountains ; New Mexico to Colorado ; Canada ; Red Deer, Alberta. Pupa signata was described from the Caucasus, FIG. 13. pi II a blandi (magnified). and its inclusion by Westerlund in a list of American Arctic species is probably an oversight. Pupilla muscorum Linn6. Turbo muscorum LINNE, Syst. Nat., ed. x, p. 767, 1758 ; ed. xn, p. 1240, 1767. — HANLEY, Shells of Linn., p. 352, pi. iv, fig. 6, 1855. Pupa muscorum var. bigranata ROSSMASSLER, fide Westerlund. Pupa badia ADAMS, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., in, p. 331, pi. in, fig. 18, 1840. Pupilla badia MORSE, Journ. Portland Soc. N. Hist., I, p. 37, figs. 89-91, pi. x, fig. 92, 1864. Pupa muscorum var. lundstromi WESTERLUND, Ges. Nat. zu Berlin, p. 36, Mar., 1883. FAMILY PUPID^E 29 Pupa (Pupilla) muscorum PILSBRY, Nautilus, xi, p. 118, Feb., 1898. Pupa sublubrica Aucey, fide Binney. Range. — Europe. In America, New England and Canada ; Anti- costi ; the northern United States as far west as Montana, alpine H 15 16 FIGS. 14-16. Pupilla muscorum, showing variations. Fig. 16 from a Euro- pean specimen. Fig. 14 from P. badia Adams. Fig. 15 maximum armature of mouth. (All magnified.) (8,000-9,000 feet) in Colorado, Utah and Nevada; northward in British America. Laggan, Alberta ; Anuk, Alaska. Genus Vertigo Mu'ller. Vertigo hoppii Moller. Pupa hoppi MOLLER, Ind. Moll. Gronl., p. 4, 1842. — PFEIFFER, Conch. Cat., ed. ii, Pupa, p. 163, pi. xix, figs. 29, 30, 1852. — TRYON, Ann. Journ. Conch., in, p. 303, pi. xv, fig. 3, 1867. Pupa {Vertigo) hoppii MoRCH, Am. Journ. Conch., iv, p. 30, pi. in, figs. 6-9, 1869. Pupa steenbuchi BECK, Verz. Kiel., p. 76, 1847 ; nomen nudum, fide Morch, op. cit. Range. — Greenland (Ungava, Labrador?). The references to this species as found in Alberta and Anticosti are doubtless based on a different species, as is Binney's figure on page 235 of the Land and Fresh Water Shells, part i. Vertigo modesta Say. Pupa modesta SAY, Rep. Long's Exp., n, p. 259, pi. xv, fig. 5, 1824. Pupa decora GOULD, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., n, p. 263, fig., 1848. Vertigo parietalis ANCEY ; P. corpulenta MORSE, and V. castanea STERKI, fide PILSBRY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., for 1900, pp. 597-602, pi. xxm, figs. 1-7, 1900. 30 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS Range. — North America from New England to California and northward. Loess of Iowa. Ungava, Labrador ! Lake Superior region ; Laggan, Alberta ; in British Columbia at Nanaimo and Victoria ; in Alaska at Killisnoo, Chilkat and Chilkoot valleys, Pyramid Island, Portage Bay, Dyea, Klukwan, Point Romanof at the Yukon delta ; St. George Island ! St. Paul Island ! Unalaska ! Rooluk Island, Unalga Pass ! Akutan Island ! Popof Island, Shumagins ! St. Paul, Kadiak Island ! Orca, Prince William Sound ! Yakutat Bay ! Berg Inlet, Glacier Bay ! Muir Inlet ! This is the most abundant and widely distributed species in the north country. I have very little doubt that V. borealis More- let, from Kamchatka and Bering Island, is merely a variety of this species. Vertigo columbiana Sterki. Vertigo columbiana (STERKI MS.) PILSBRY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., for 1900, p. 602, pi. xxin, fig. n, Sept., 1900. Range. — Douglas County, Oregon, and northward to Washington, Vancouver Island, and St. Paul Island, Bering Sea ! Resembles V. gouldii but wants the basal fold. A variety occurs in Utah. The St. Paul specimen was identified by Dr. Sterki. Vertigo gouldii Binney. Pupa gouldii BINNEY, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., i, p. 105, 1843 ; Terr. Moll., ii, p. 332, pi. LXXI, fig. 2, 1851. a b FIG. 17. Vertigo gouldii (magnified). FIG. 18. Vertigo bollesiana (magnified). Vertigo gouldii MORSE, Am. Nat., I, p. 669, fig. 60, 1868. — Journ. Portland Soc. N. Hist., i, p. 38, fig. 95, pi. x, fig. 96, 1864. Vertigo bollesiana MORSE, Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist., vill, p. 209, figs. 4-6, 1865. FAMILY PUPID^E Vertigo bollesiana var. arthuri VON MARTENS, Sitz-ber. Ges. Naturf. Fr. zu Berlin, 1882, No. 9, p. 140. Range. — Northern United States east of the Rocky Mountains and northward. Ottawa, Ontario ; Manitoba ; Upper Missouri at Fort Bert hold ; Helena, Montana. The variety arthuri is catalogued from Arctic America by an over- sight, in Binney's Third Supplement, p. 185. It is really from the Little Missouri in Dakota. Vertigo ventricosa Morse. Isthmia ventricosa MORSE, Ann. N. Y. Lye. N. Hist., vm, p. i, figs. 1-3, 1865. Vertigo ventricosa MORSE, Am. Nat., i, p. 966, figs. 61, 62, 1868. Vertigo ventricosa elatior STERKI, Nautilus, xi, p. 120, Feb., 1898. Vertigo gouldii lagganensis PILSBRY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila , for 1899, p. 314, fig. i. Vertigo approximans STERKI, fide Pilsbry. Range. — Quebec and Maine to Illinois and Alberta , Manitoba ; variety elatior at Laggan, Alberta. FIG. 19. Vertigo ventricosa (magnified). Vertigo binneyana Sterki. Vertigo binneyana STERKI, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., for 1890, p. 33 ; Nautilus, in, p. 125, March, 1890. — PILSBRY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., for 1899, p. 315, fig. 2 ; Nautilus, iv, p. 39, pi. i, fig. I, Aug., 1890. Range. — Rocky Mountain region from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Manitoba. Seattle, Wash. ; Helena, Montana ; Winnipeg, Manitoba. 20 21 22 FIGS. 20-22. Vertigo ovata, showing variations in teeth (see next page). LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS * 23* 23* FIG. 23. Vertigo ovata, showing variations in teeth of. aperture (all figures magnified). Vertigo ovata Say. Vertigo ovata SAY, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., u, p. 375, 1822. — MORSE, Am. Nat., I, p. 668, figs. 57, 58, 1868. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., I, p. 252, figs. 442-445, 1869 (syn. in part excl.). Range. — Eastern United States from Maine to Texas, and north- ward. Mexico? Ungava Bay, Labrador! Victoria, British Columbia! St. Paul, Kadiak Island! Alaska; Tigalda Island, Aleutian chain! Laggan, Alberta ; Manitoba. Vertigo arctica Wallenberg. Pupa arctica WALLENBERG, Mai. Blatt, v, pp. 32, 99, pi. i, figs. 3, a-c, 4, 1858. — REINHARDT, Sitz-ber. Ges. Naturf. Fr. zu Berlin, No. 3, 1883, p. 38. Range. — Lapland and northern Scandinavia, the mountains of Germany and the Tyrol ; eastern Siberia at Emma Harbor, Plover Bay ; Port Clarence on the American side of Bering Strait (Vega Expd.). *Vertigo krauseana Reinhardt. Vertigo krauseana REINHARDT, Sitz-ber. Ges. Naturf. Fr. zu Berlin, No. 3, 1883, p. 38. — WESTERLUND, Fauna Pal. Reg., in, p. 131, 1887. Range. — Chukchi Peninsula of eastern Siberia; at Poot, St. Law- rence Bay, and Ratmanof Harbor. Alaska, at Chilkat Inlet ! Specimens of this species labeled Chilkat Inlet were received from Dr. Krause ; but in the publications on this form only the Siberian habitats are given. I suspect some error has occurred in labeling, though it is entirely possible that the species may occur in Arctic America. * Vertigo (Vertilla) milium Gould. Pupa milium GOULD, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., in, p. 402, pi. ill, fig. 23, 1840. Vertigo (Angustula) milium STERKI, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XI, pp. 377-8, pi. XLII, figs. 10, 13, 1888. FAMILY ACHATINID^E 33 Vertigo (Vertilla)milium PILSBRY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., for 1900, p. 597. Range. — New England to Texas and Florida, west to Minnesota. Ontario, Canada. This minute species doubtless exists on the northern side of the boundary, though not yet reported there. FIG. 24. Verti- go m ilium (mag- * Vertigo (Isthmia) pygmaea Draparnaud. nified). Pupapygmaa DRAPARNAUD, Tableau, p. 57, 1801 ; Hist. Moll. Terr., p. 60, pi. Ill, figS. 2O-2I, 1805. Vertigo pygmcea PILSBRY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., for 1900, p. 608. Vertigo callosa STERKI, not Reuss, and P. superioris Pilsbry, fide Pilsbry, 1. c. Range. — Europe, Asia Minor, the Caucasus ; America, in the northeastern States and the Lake Superior region. Family ACHATINIDJE. Genus Cochlicopa (F^russac) Risso. Cochlicopa lubrica Muller. Helix lubrica MULLER, Verm. Hist., I, p. 104, 1774. Zua lubrica LEACH, Syn. Moll. Gt. Brit., p. 114, 1852; Gray's Turton's Man., p. 1 88, pi. vi, fig. 65, 1840. Cionella lubrica JEFFREYS, Trans. Linn. Soc., xvi, p. 347, 1830. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., i, p. 224, figs. 381-385. Bulimus lubricoides STIMPSON, Shells of New England, p. 54, 1851. Zua lubricoidea MORSE, Jour. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., I, p. 30, figs. 79, 81, 84; pi. x, fig. 82, 1864; Am. Nat., i,'p. 607, fig. 49, 1868. Ferussacia subcylindrica auct. non L. Range. — Europe, North Africa and Asia Minor : Siberia ; Kam- chatka ; most of North America. Lake Superior region ; Red River of the North, Lake of the Woods and Turtle Mountain, Manitoba ; Moose Factory ! English River, Keewatin ; Laggan and Red Deer in Alberta ; Nanaimo and Victoria, British Columbia ; Point Barrow ! and Yukon valley, Alaska ; Avacha Bay ! Kamchatka. This well known shell is one of the most emphatically circumpolar species in existence, and considering its immense geographical and climatic range its resistance to the factors which make for variation is very remarkable. Family CIRCINARIIDJE. Genus Circinaria Beck. This is Macrocyclis or Selenites of recent literature, not of Beck or Hope. 34 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS Circinaria vancouverensis Lea. Helix vancouverensis LEA, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., vi, p. 87, pi. xxin, fig. 72, 1839. Helix vellicata FORBES, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1850, p. 75, pi. ix, fig. i. Macrocyclis vancouverensis TRYON, Am. Journ. Conch., n, p. 245, pi. in, fig. 6, 1866. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., i, p. 54, figs. 90-93, 1869. Selenites vancouverensis BINNEY, Third Suppl. Terr. Moll. pp. 163-6, 1892. Circinaria vancouverensis PILSBRY, Class. Cat. Am. Landsh., p. 24, 1898. Range. — In the moist and wooded region of northern California and northward to the Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, between the Cascade Range and the sea. Vancouver Island ! Quatsino Sound, Broughton Strait, Malcolm Island, Johnstone Strait, Harbledown and Pender Islands, Skidegate, Graham Island, and Cumshewa Inlet, Moresby Island, Queen Char- lotte Islands ! Union Bay ! and Comox ! British Columbia. In Alaska at Annette Island ! Killisnoo, Sitka ! Lynn Canal, throughout the Alex- ander Archipelago, and northward along the mainland shore to Lituya Bay. The typical form of this species is readily recognizable by its ample whorls, the last nearly smooth, its large size and greenish yellow color. It grades, however imperceptibly, into the smaller and more strongly sculptured C. sportella Gould, from which cause a large number of varieties have arisen and been named. In the moist mountainous region of the Columbia drainage some of these forms penetrate to the eastward nearly to the headwaters of this river in western Montana. They are all depauperate, however, compared with the typical well nourished forms of the coast. These animals are carnivorous, voracious and cannibalistic. It is unsafe to keep them living in the same recep- tacle with other living snails, as they will rapidly destroy and consume the soft parts. A fine sinistral specimen was collected at Sitka. A variety of a dark chocolate brown color, otherwise like the ordi- nary form, was found rather commonly at Sitka. For this the varietal name chocolata would seem appropriate. Specimens of this species were received with a label indicating that they had been collected on the Alaska Peninsula opposite Kadiak Island, but, knowing the habits of this animal, I regard this as an error of labelling. The collector having died, I was unable to untangle the confusion, but I have never found it far distant from the wooded region where Ariolimax and Polygyra columbiana occur, upon which it chiefly feeds in Alaska. It does not occur, so far as I was able to discover, on the shores of Cook Inlet, where there are suitable forests, FAMILY ZONITID^E 35 and I do not believe it occurs on the treeless grassy slopes of the peninsula. I suspect that the wide-stretching glacial area to the north and west of Yakutat Bay, puts an impassable barrier to its north- western migration, and that it may not exist in the forests beyond that area. This is the largest shell-bearing Pulmonate known to live in Alaska, but is surpassed by the great slug Ariolimax, which often extends to the length while preserving the diameter of a large cigar. Circinaria variety sportella Gould. Helix sportella Gould, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, n, p. 167, 1846; Moll. U. S. Expl. Exp., p. 37, fig. 42, 1852. This is a variety of C. vancouverensis of smaller size, and intensified sculpture, both spiral and incremental. Intermediate forms, to which several names have been applied, connect it with the typical form. It accompanies the latter throughout its range, but occurs in some locali- ties which do not support the larger form. Among northern localities it has been collected at Saanich, Comox ! Union Bay ! Salt Springs Island and Chilliwak Lake, British Columbia ; at Annette Island ! (with variety hybrida Ancey) and Lituya Bay ! Alaska. Circinaria variety hybrida Ancey, 1888. This form is reported from Vernon and Comox, British Columbia, and Annette Island, Alaska. Circinaria hemphilli Binney and C. voyana Newcomb, have not been authentically reported north of the boundary, though it is said both of them have been collected in the Puget Sound region. Family ZONITID^. Genus Vitrina Draparnaud. Vitrina DRAPARNAUD, Tabl. Moll. Terr. France, pp. 33, 98, 1801 ; Hist., Nat. Moll. Terr. France, pp. 23, 30, 119, 1805. Type Helix pellucida Miiller, Verm. Terr., p. 215. Vitrinus MONTFORT, Conch. Syst., n, p. 238, 1810. Cobresia JAC. HUBNER, Mon. Test. Bairische Landschn. Cobresien, 1810 ; (pages and plates not numbered). Hyalina STUDER, Syst. Verz. Schweiz. Conch., p. n, 1820: not of Schu- macher, 1817. Limadna HARTMANN, Neue Alpina, I, p. 206, 1821 ; Sturm's Deutschl. Fauna, abth. vi, heft v, pp. 41, 54, 1821 ; not of Cuvier, 1817. Helicolimax FERUSSAC pere, M6m. Soc. Med. d'Emul., rv, p. 390, 1802; et fils, Tabl. Syst. des Lim., pp. 19, 21, 1821. Semilimax FERUSSAC pere, Der Naturforscher (Halle), pt. 28, 1802, fide Fer- russac fils, loc. cit., 1821. 36 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS Semilimax STABILE, Revue et Mag. Zool. (Guerin), Aug., 1859, p. 41 ; Moll. Terr. Viv. Piem., p. 23, 1864. — KOBELT, Cat. der Europ. Faun. leb. Bin- nenconch., p. 3, 1871 (as a section of Vitrina, group of V. diaphana Drap.). — PFEIFFER, Nom. Hel. Viv., p. 26, 1878. Pagana GISTEL, Naturg. Thierr., p. 168, 1848 (new name for Vitrina Drap.). Phenacolimax STABILE, Rev. et Mag. Zool. (Guerin), Aug., 1859, p. 42 ; Moll, Terr. Viv. Piem., p. 24, 1864. — PFEIFFER, Nom. Hel. Viv., p. 27, 1878. Helicolimax KOBELT, Cat. der Europ. Faun. leb. Binnenconch., p. 4, 1871, (Sect, of Vitrina, s.s.). TrochoTjitrina SCHACKO, in Boettger, Jahrb. Deutsch. Mai. Ges., vn, p. 379, Oct., 1880; type Vitrina lederi Boettger. Gallandia BOURGUIGNAT, Descr. Nouv. Genre Gallandia, Aug., 1880, pp. 4-8, 1st sp. Vitrina conoidea Martens. Oligolimax FISCHER, in Paulucci, Faun. Calabria, p. 37, 1880. — PAULUCCI, Bull. Soc. Mai. Ital., vn, p. 75, 1881. — FISCHER, Man. de Conchyl., p. 464, 1883 ( V. pauluccice Fischer). Parmacellina SANDBERGER, Land u. Sussw. Conch, d. Vorwelt, p. 232, pi. xin, 1871. Sole ex. P. vitrincE/ormis Sandb., Eocene. Vitrina PILSBRY, Class. Cat. Landsh. Am., p. 25, 1898. Chlamydea WESTERLUND, Fauna d. Pal. Reg., I, p. 19, 1886 (V. bicolor Westerlund, 1881). The shell in this group and its allies is reduced to very simple terms and the differences between species appear trifling. But there appears to be quite a wide range of character in the soft parts, from whence it follows that several sections can be recognized in the genus as re- stricted, while some species, formerly regarded as belonging to Vitrina, are now scattered in widely separated genera. The true Vitrina seems confined to the northern hemisphere. The following sections are recognized : Vitrina Drap. s. s. 1801. Type V. pellucida Miiller. Helicoli- max Fe"russac pere, 1801, is identical, and Semilimax Stabile hardly separable. Oligolimax Fischer. Type V. pauluccia Fischer. Phenacolimax Stabile, 1859. Type V. major Fe"r. Gallandia Bourguignat, Aug., 1880. Type V. conoidea von Martens. Trochovitrina Schacko, Oct., 1880, is synonymous. The North American and Greenland species are true Vitrina, the other forms belong to the Old World only. The New World groups Vitrinozonites Binney and Velifera Binney may be regarded as of generic rank, and are extra limital to the region now under discussion. Vitrina angelicae Beck. Vitrina angelica BECK, Index, p. i, 1837 ; name only.— MOLLER, Index, p. 4, 1842. — MORCH, Am. Journ. Conch., iv, p. 27, pi. in, figs. I, 4, 1868. — MORCH, in Rink's Danish Greenland, p. 436, 1877. Helix pellucida FABRICIUS, Fauna Gronl., p. 389, 1780, not of Miiller, 1774. FAMILY ZONITIDyE 37 Range. — Greenland. This species is more like the V. beryllina of Europe than the American species. The latest data given by Posselt indicate that it is not found in Iceland. Binney has given an enlarged illustration of this species (fig. 25) in his Land and Fresh Water Shells of North America, FIG. 25. Vit- I, p. 28. rina angelica, \. Vitrina limpida Gould. Vitrina pellucida DE KAY, Zool. N. Y. Moll., p. 25, pi. in, fig. 42, 1843; not of Miiller, 1774. Vitrina limpida GOULD, in Agassiz, Lake Superior, p. 243, 1850. — MORSE, Journ. Portland Soc. Nat. His., I, p. u, pi. v, fig. 17, 1864. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., i, p. 27, figs. 23, 24, 1869. Vitrina americ ana PFEIFFER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., for 1852, p. 156; Conch. Cab., ed. n, Vitrina, p. 9, pi. I, figs. 22-25, 1854. Range. — Central New York and northward, from New Brunswick to Alberta and Hudson Bay. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Manitoba at Carberry FIG. 26. Vit- ancj Lake of the Woods ; Red Deer and Laggan in rina limpida Alberta . Moose Factory ! James Bay ; Norway House, (Maine), \. . in damp woods. This species has been reported from the Rocky Mountain region by Ingersoll, but I regard his specimens so identified as varieties of V. alaskana. Vitrina alaskana Ball, nom. nov. Vitrina pfeifferi NEWCOMB, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., n, p. 92, 1861. — TRYON, Am. Journ. Conch., n, p. 244, pi. in, fig. 3, 1866. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., I, p. 28, fig. 26, 1869. Not V. pfeifferi Deshayes, in F£r., Lindens, 1822. Range. — New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, central California, all at considerable altitudes, and northward. Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, B. C. ; Muir Inlet, Alaska ! St. Paul, Kadiak Island ! Popof and Unga Islands, of the Shumagin group ! Akutan ! Unalga ! Rooluk ! and Unalaska ! of the Aleutian chain ; St. Paul ! and St. George Islands, Bering Sea, Alaska, in tall grass of bluff fifty feet above the sea ! This species has been referred to as pellucida, limpida and exilis, and when fully grown under favorable conditions the shell may reach 10 mm. in major diameter, though most of the specimens as collected are considerably smaller. The shell is translucent, with a marked greenish tinge, and not over three whorls. It is flatter than limpida, 38 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS larger, and of a different tint, and the size of the whorls increases more rapidly. It is less flat and much larger than V. exilis, which is also of a different hue. It is the most common land shell on most of the islands of Bering Sea and on the continent near the sea, where it usually occurs, but as we move southward we find it occurring at continually greater eleva- tions and entirely absent from the warm dry plains and valleys. It attains from 7,500 to 10,800 feet elevation in the Sierra and Rocky Mountains. *Vitrina exilis Morelet. Vitrina exilis MORELET, Journ. de Conchyl., vn, p. 8, 1858. — PFEIFFER, Mon. Hel. Viv., iv, p. 799, 1859. — BINNEY, Bull. U. S. N. Mus., No. 28, p. 178, fig. 172, 1885 ; Terr. Moll., v, pp. 138, 200, pi. n, fig. B. Range. — Northeastern Asia and adjacent islands, from Japan northeastward. Kamchatka, at Petropavlovsk ! Bering Id. (Vega Expd.). This is a small species, of a whitish or translucent glassy hue ; smaller and with a more elevated spire than its American representa- tive V. alaskana. According to Binney V. exilis has the jaw and radula as usual in the genus, the transverse rows of teeth numbering 37 . I . 37, with seven perfect laterals. I have seen no specimens from east of the Commander Islands ; the shells thus identified are probably all V. alaskana. Genus Vitrea Fitzinger. Vitrea radiatula Alder. Helix radiatula ALDER, Cat. Test. Newcastle upon Tyne, p. 12, No. 50, 1830. — GRAY, in Turton's Man., p. 173, pi. xn, fig. 137, 1840. f Helix hammonis STROM, Trondj., Selsk. Skrift., p. 435, pi. vi, fig. 16, 1765. ? Zonites viridulus MENKE, Syn., ed. n, p. 137, 1830. Helix electrina GOULD, Inv. Mass., p. 183, fig. m, 1841. Hyalina viridula BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., I, p. 34, figs. 41-43, 1 869 ; not of Menke ? Hyalina pellucida LEHNERT, Science Record, n, p. 172, June 16, 1884. Range. — Holarctic. Northern Europe, Asia and America. Manitoba, at Lake of the Woods, Carberry and Pembina ; Alberta, at Laggan and Red Deer ; Fort Resolution, Great Slave Lake ! British Columbia, at Departure Bay ! Comox ! and Union Bay ! Alaska, at Killisnoo ! Klukwan ! Portage Bay ! Seduction Tongue ! Anuk ! St. Paul, Kadiak Island ! Unga Island, Shumagins ! Unalaska, Aleutians ! Nulato, Yukon River ! Point Barrow ! Bering Island, Bering Sea ! Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka ! FAMILY ZONITID^E 39 The species as described by Strom is unrecognizable and his name should be rejected. There is some doubt as to whether the Z. viridula of Menke is identical with the present species or not. Vitrea nitidula Draparnaud. Helix niiidula DRAPARNAUD, Hist. Moll., p. 117, pi. vni, figs. 21-22, 1805. Zonites nitidulus GRAY, in Turton, Man., p. 172, pi. xu, fig. 136, 1840. Range. — Europe, northern and middle; Italy. Fort Resolution! Great Slave Lake (Kennicott). The identification and locality are indubitable. Vitrea binneyana Morse. Hyalina binneyana MORSE, Journ. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., I, p. 13, figs. 25, 26, pi. II, fig. 9, pi. iv, fig. 31, 1864. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., I, p. 39, figs. 56-8, 1869. Helix morsei TRYON, Am. Journ. Conch., i, p. 188, 1865. Hyalina binneyi BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am. , I, p. 39, footnote. Vitrea binneyana PILSBRY, Class. Cat., p. 26, 1898. FIG. 27. Vitrea bin- , neyana Morse. Range. — Quebec and Maine to northern Mich- igan and British Columbia. Brandon, Manitoba ; Nanaimo, B. C. Vitrea indentata Say. Helix indentata SAY, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., n, p. 372, 1822. — GOULD, Inv. Mass., p. 181, fig. 109, 1841. Hyalina indentata MORSE, Journ. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., I, p. 12, fig. 21; pi. ii, fig. 11, pi. v, fig. 22, 1864. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., J. P- 35. ngs- 44-46, 1869. Range. — Mexico to Manitoba, United States and Canada, eastward from the Rocky Mountains. Pine Creek, Manitoba. Genus Euconulus Reinhardt. Helix (sp.) MULLER, Gmelin, Montagu, Draparnaud, eta/., 1774-1820. Trochus (sp.) DA COSTA, Brit. Conch., p. 35, 1778. Teba (sp.) LEACH, Proofsheets, 1820, fide Rossmassler Icon. , 11, p. 38, 1838. Conulus FITZINGER, Syst. Verz. Weichth., p. 94, 1833 ; not Conulus Rafi- nesque, Analyse de la Nature, p. 145, 1815. Polita (sp.) HELD, Weichth. Bayerns, Isis, Dec., 1837, col. 916. Petasia (sp.) BECK, Index, p. 21, 1837. Zonites (sp.) MOQUIN TANDON, Moll, de France, p. 68, 1855. Hyalina (sp.) VON MARTENS' Albers, p. 73, 1850. — BINNEY, L. & Fw. Sh. N. Am., pt. I, p. 46, 1869. Euconulus (fulvus) REINHARDT, Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. zu Berlin, for 1883, p. 86. — PILSBRY, Nautilus, xiv, Nov., 1900, p. 81. — WOODWARD, Brit. Nonmarine Moll., p. 353, 1903. Hyalinia (sp.) MORCH, Syn. Moll. Terr. Dan., p. 14, 1864. — WESTERLUND, Nachrichtsbl. Mai. Ges., xv, p. 173, Dec., 1883. 40 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS Arnouldia BOURGUIGNAT, Bull. Soc. Mai. de France, vn, p. 328, 1890. Vitrea (sp.) E. A. SMITH, Journ. Conch. (Leeds), vi, p. 339, 1891. Trochulus WESTERLUND, Fauna Pal. Reg., uitebeil, p. 16, 1886 ; not of the Museum Calonnianum, p. 26, 1797, not Trochula Schleuter, Verz., p. 7, 1838. This genus has had a number of names applied to it, among which one is proposed by Westerlund as taken from Da Costa (1778) but, as indicated by Sherborne in the Index Animalium, Da Costa merely quoted part of a polynomial phrase _( Trochilus terrestris mortoni} in his synonymy, from Morton's Northamptonshire (London, 1712), and did not use the word Trochilus in a generic sense. Moreover, if he had, Trochilus had previously been used by Linne for a genus of birds. There seems at present no reason to doubt that the first valid name for the genus is Euconulus Reinhardt, while the typical species, as will be evident from the following synonymy, is E. trochiformis (Montagu) . Euconulus trochiformis (Montagu). ? Helix fulva, ex parte MULLER, Verm. Terr, et Fluv., II, p. 57, 1774 ; Zool. Dan. Prodr., p. 240, No. 2905, 1776. Trochus terrestris (LISTER) DA COSTA, Brit. Conch., p. 35, 1778; not of Pennant, 1767. Helix trochiformis MONTAGU, Test. Brit., n, p. 427, pi. n, fig. 9, 1803. Not of Ferussac, 1819. Helix trochulus MONTAGU, op. cit., in syn., not of Miiller, 1774. — DILLWYN, Descr. Cat. Rec. Sh., n, 916, 1817. Helix fulva DRAPARNAUD, Hist. Nat. des Moll. Ter. et Fluv. France, p. 81, pi. VII, figs. 12, 13, 1805. — R6SSMASSLER, Icon., II, pt. II, p. 38, pi. 39, %. 535. l838. Helix nitidula VON ALTEN, Syst. abh. Erd. u. Fluss-Conch., p. 53, pi. iv, fig. 8, 1812. Helix fulva NILSSON, Hist. Moll. Suec., p. 13, 1822. Helix trochiformis MATON and RACKETT, Linn. Trans., vin, p. 200, 1807. — FLEMING, Edin. Encyc., vn, p. 80, 1813. — WOOD, Ind. Test., pi. 32, fig. 68, 1825. — JEFFREYS, Linn. Trans. , xvi, p. 331, 1830. Teba fulva LEACH, Syn. Brit. Moll. Proofsheets, p. 99, \2>2o;fide Rossmas- sler, Icon., n, p. 38, 1838. — LEACH, Syn. Brit. Moll. (ed. Gray), p. 72, 1852. Helix trochilus FLEMING, Brit. An., p. 260, 1828. Helix mandralisci BIVONA, Nuovo Moll. Palermo, p. 16, pi. i, fig. 6, 1839. Helix fulva var. mortoni JEFFREYS, Linn. Trans., xvi, p. 332, 1830. Conulus fulvus FITZINGER, Syst. Verz., p. 94, 1833. Polita fulva HELD, Weichth. Bayerns, Isis, Dec., 1837, col. 916. Helix (Petasid) trochiformis BECK, Index, p. 21, 1837. Zonites {Conulus) fulvus MOQ. TANDON, Moll. France, p. 68, 1855. Helix (Conulus) fulva ALBERS, Heliceen, p. 73, 1850. Hyalina {Conulus) fulva VON MARTENS' Albers, p. 73, 1860. Hyalinia (Petasia} fulva MORCH, Syn. Moll. Terr. Dan., p. 14, 1864. Euconulus fulvus REINHARDT, Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Freunde zu Berlin, p. 86, 1883. FAMILY ZONITIU^E 4! Arnouldia fulva BOURGUIGNAT, Bull. Soc. Mai. de France., vn, p. 328, 1890. Vitrea (Conulus) fulva E. A. SMITH, Journ. Conch. (Leeds), vi, No. x, p. 339, 1891. Euconulus fulvus WOODWARD, Brit. Nonmarine Moll., p. 353, 1903. Helix egena SAY, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, p. 120, 1825. Hyalina (Conulus) fulva BINNEY, Land and Freshw. Sh. of N. Am. part I, p. 46, fig. 73, 1869. Hyalinia (Conulus) trochifonnis (MONTAGU) WESTERLUND, Nachr. Mai. Ges., xv, p. 173, Dec., 1883. Trochulus trochifonnis WESTERLUND, Fauna Pal. Reg., in18 beilage, p. 16, 1886. Conuhis chersinus MORSE, Journ. Portland Soc. N. Hist., I, p. 19, figs. 44, 46, pi. II, fig. 4, pi. vii, fig. 45, 1864, not Helix chersina Say, 1821. Conulus fulvus (MULLER), and var. alaskensis PILSBRY, Nautilus, XII, No. 10, pp. 115-6, 1899. Euconulus fulvus PILSBRY, Nautilus, xiv, Nov., 1900, p. 81. Variety fabricii (Beck). Helix nitida FABRICIUS, Fauna Gronl., p. 389, 1780, not of Miiller. Helix (Petasid) fabricii BECK, Index, p. 21, 1837, nude name. — MOLLER, Index Moll. Groenl., p. 7, 1842. Range. — Holarctic, and widely distributed south- ward. Canada ; Manitoba at Carberry, Pine Creek, Pem- bina, and Lake of the Woods ; in Alberta at Laggan, Red Deer, Olds and McLeod ; English River, Kee- watin; California! Oregon! Washington! Victoria, form^ (maeni_ Vancouver Island ! Sitka, Alaska ; Unalaska ! Bering fiedx Island, Bering Sea ! Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka ! Pooten, Konyam and St. Lawrence Bays, eastern Siberia. Variety fabricii Moller. Greenland ! Ungava ! Labrador. Variety alaskensis Pilsbry. Yukon drainage, Lake FIG. 29. Eu- Lindeman to Point Romanof and St. Michael, conulus trocki- Alaska ; Dyea valley, Southeastern Alaska ! formis var. fa- This famiiiar iittie shell has had various vicissitudes in nomenclature. The name fulva Miiller, by which it is best known, was based, according to Beck, who was custodian of Muller's types, upon Helix bidentata Gmelin, while a shell which Miiller supposed to be the young, but did not figure or fully describe, was supposed by some of the early naturalists to be our species. Another unfigured species, Helix trochulus Miiller, was thought by Dillwyn to be identical with our fulva, but the measure- ments forbid the identification, and Pfeiffer came to the conclusion that H. trochulus is identical with the young tip of Buliminus ob- scurus. Fabricius supposed our shell to be identical with Helix 42 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS hammonis Strom (1765), but Strom's figure is widely umbilicated and so rude as to be practically unidentifiable. The first specific name which unmistakably applies to our shell, and to it alone, is the trochiformis of Montagu, which it seems advisable to adopt. Under the name fulva several distinct though very closely allied forms have been generally included. Reinhardt, Bourguignat and lastly Pilsbry have thrown additional light on this subject, and a num- ber of species or marked varieties are now recognized. The Helix chersina of Say is a southern form, while the U. egena of Say is generally admitted to be a synonym of the trochiformis. The Euconulus fabricii of Greenland seems to be merely a case of an offshoot which by isolation has been enabled to assume distinctive characters, which have hardly reached a greater than varietal rank. Genus Zonitoides Lehmann. Zonitoides nitidus Miiller. Helix nitida MULLER, Hist. Verm., II, p. 32, 1774. Helix lucida DRAPARNAUD, Hist. Moll, de France, p. 103, 1805 ; not of the Tableau, 1801. Hyalina nitida TRYON, Am. Journ. Conch., n, p. 250, pi. iv, fig. 24, 1866. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., I, p. 31, figs. 35, 36, 1869. Zonitoides nitidus PILSBRY, Class. Cat., p. 27, 1898. Range, — Holarctic. Europe, northern United States, British America, Alaska, Japan. Red River drift, Manitoba ; Peace River, Athabaska ; Fort Resolu- tion, Great Slave Lake ; Seattle, Wash. ! Klukwan, Alaska (Krause) . This species has been found so widely spread that it cannot reason- ably longer be regarded as merely a European emigrant. Zonitoides arboreus Say. Helix arboreus SAY, Nicholson's Encyl., ist Am. edition, pi. iv, fig. 4, 1817. Helix arborea GOULD, Inv. Mass., p. 182, fig. no, 1841. — MORSE, Am. Nat., I, p. 542, fig. 30, 1867. Hyalina arborea MORSE, Journ. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., I, p. 14, fig. 28, pi. vi, fig. 29, 1864. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., i, p. 33, figs. 38- 40, 1869. Helix breiveri NEWCOMB, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., in, p. 118, 1864. Range. — North America generally and Japan. Labrador ; Ontario ; English River ! Keewatin and Moose Factory ; Carberry and Lake of the Woods, Manitoba ; Laggan and Red Deer, in Alberta ; Great Slave Lake ! Oregon, at Weston ! Vancouver Island at Victoria ! Departure Bay ! Nanaimo ! Comox ! Union Bay ! etc. ; in Alaska at Unalaska ! Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka! Japan (Hirase). FAMILY ZONITID^E 43 Zonitoides randolphi Pilsbry. Zonitoides randolphi PILSBRY, Nautilus, xii, p. 87, 1898. — RANDOLPH, op. cit., p. no, 1899. Range. — Lake Lindeman, headwaters of the Yukon, British America. I have not seen this species, which is less than 5 mm. in diameter. It has not been figured. Zonitoides minusculus Binney. Helix minuscula BINNEY, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., in, p. 435, pi. xxn, fig. 4, 1840. — MORSE, Am. Nat, i, p. 543, fig. 35, 1867. Pseudohyalina minuscula MORSE, Journ. Portland Soc. N. Hist., i, p. 16, fig. 34, pi. vii, fig. 35, 1864. Range. — North America generally. Red River of the North, Manitoba ; Victoria and Departure Bay ! Vancouver Island ; Berg Bay, Muir Inlet ! Alaska ; Coal Harbor, Unga Island, Shumagins ! Rooluk Island ! near Unalga, Aleutians, Alaska. Zonitoides milium Morse. Helix milium MORSE, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vn, p. 28, 1859; Am. Nat., i, p. 543, fig. 36, 1867. Striatura milium MORSE, Journ. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., I, p. 1 8, figs. 41, 42, pi. vii, fig. 43, 1864. Range. — Eastern United States and Canada. Mani- toba (rare, Hanham). The report of this species from Vancouver Island FlG> 3°- Zon~ was probably based on the following form. Z. minus- {t°ides mt7t'um< from below culus has also been wrongly identified as Z,. tmhurn. (maffnifjetn Zonitoides pugetensis Dull. Patulastra f (Punc turn ? ) pugetensis DALL, Nautilus, vin, No. n, p. 130, Mar., 1895. Zonitoides pugetensis PILSBRY, Nautilus, ix, p. 18, 1895. Zonitoides (^Pseudohyalina) pugetensis DALL, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxiv, p. 500, pi. xxvn, figs. 10, 12, 1902. Range. — Puget Sound region, Oregon, California. Seattle, Wash. ! Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. Genus Gastrodonta Albers. *Gastrodonta gularis Say ? Helix gularis J. DE C. SOWERBY, in Richardson, Fauna Bor. Am. , m, p. 315, 1836 (nude name). Range. — Lake Superior, Winnipeg, and Saskatchewan River ( So werby ) . 44 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS This name is doubtless one given by Sowerby to some unknown shell, as it is as certain as almost anything can be, that Helix gularis Say was never collected in the region referred to. Genus Pristiloma Ancey. Pristiloma lansingi Bland. Zonites lansingi BLAND, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., xi, p. 74, figs, i, 2, 1875. Microphysa lansingi BINNEY, Man. Am. Land Sh., p. 90, figs. 55, 56, 1885. Pristiloma lansingi PILSBRY, Class. Cat., p. 29, 1898. Range. — Oregon, Washington, British Columbia. Astoria, Oregon ! Seattle, Wash. ! common at Victoria ! and Nan- aimo ! Vancouver Island. Pristiloma stearnsii Bland. Zonites stearnsii BLAND, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., xi, p. 76, fig. 3, 1875, (Astoria, Oregon). Microphysa stearnsii BINNEY, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xi, No. 8, p. 147, pi. ii, figs. N, o, 1883 ; xiii, No. 2, p. 44, 1886. Pristiloma steamsi BINNEY, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xxn, No. 4, p. 176, 1892. Range. — Columbia River to Dyea, Alaska. Astoria and Portland, Oregon ! Olympia, Wash. ! Comox ! Union Bay ! and Salt Spring Island, British Columbia ; Killisnoo, Por- tage Bay, Anuk, Dyea valley, Klehini and Klukwan, Southeastern Alaska. Pristiloma taylori Pilsbry. Pristiloma taylori PILSBRY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., for 1899, p. 185, pi. ix, figs. 6, 7, 8 (Nanaimo). Range. — Oregon, Washington and British Columbia at Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. *Pristiloma pilsbryi Vanatta. Pristiloma pilsbryi^ ANATT 'A, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., for 1899, p. 120, fig. I (3 views). Range. — Portland, Oregon. *Pristiloma idahoense Pilsbry. Pristiloma idahoense PILSBRY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., for 1902, p. 593, (Weiser Canyon). Range. — Idaho, in Washington and Boise counties at Weiser Canyon and Big Payette Lake. This and the preceding species will probably be found within our area when it is thoroughly explored. FAMILY LIMACID^E 45 Pristiloma? arctica Lehnert. Hyalina arctica. LEHNERT, Science Record, n, p. 172, June 16, 1884. f Conulus arcticus DALL, in Pilsbry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. , for 1 899, p. 1 87. ? Pristiloma arctica PILSBRY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., for 1899, p. 186, pi. ix, figs. 3, 4, 5. Range. — Yakutat Bay, Alaska, to Point Barrow. Point Barrow, Lat. 71° 25' N. ! Unalaska ! Coal Harbor, Unga Island, Shumagins ! Orca, Prince William Sound ! and Yakutat Bay, Alaska ! This may prove to be a depressed Euconulus when the animal is anatomically examined. The species was formerly confused with P. stearnsii. It occurs in the moss of the tundra near Point Barrow, where at most it can have but three months of activity out of the whole year. Family LIMACIIXffi. Genus Agriolimax Morch. FIG. 31. Agriolimax agrestis L. Agriolimax agrestis Linnet Limax agrestis LIKNE, Syst. Nat., ed. x, p. 652, 1758. — FORBES and HAN- LEY, Brit. Moll., iv, p. 13, pi. DDD, fig. 3, 1853. Range. — Both coasts of America, introduced from Europe. Victoria, B. C. ! Manitoba ; Ungava ! Agriolimax hyperboreus Westerlund. Limax hyperboreus WESTERLUND, Land och Sotv. Moll. Sibiriens, p. 21, 1876. — BINNEY, Man. Am. Landsh., p. 473, fig. 416, 1885; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xin, No. 2, p. 42, 1886 ; xix, No. 4, p. 205, fig., pi. vm, fig. F, 1890. Limax (Agriolimax) hyperboreus DALL, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., for 1886, p. 202, Oct., 1886. Range. — The Arctic and boreal regions of both hemispheres. Bering Id. ! Kamchatka ! Chukchi Peninsula ! Alaska at Norton Sound ! Nushagak ! Unalaska ! Coal Harbor, Shumagins ! St. Paul Island, Bering Sea ! Kadiak Island ! Sitka ! and Cape Fox ! In Van- couver Island at Comox ; Seattle, Wash. ; Alberta at Laggan, altitude 5, 200 feet; Manitoba; Ungava, Labrador ! This little black slug is the prevalent and almost the only animal of its kind in the higher latitudes of North America. It has been referred 46 LAND AMD FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS to A. campestris as a variety by some authors, but it is at least the only form of campestris known in the north and seems distinct enough to be recognized as a species. Agriolimax berendti Strebel. Limax berendti STREBEL and PFEFFER, Mex. 1. u. siissw. Conch., iv, p. 22, pi. ix, figs. 10, 12 ; pi. xv, fig. 3, 1880. Limax hemphilli BINNEY, 3d Suppl. Terr. Moll., v, p. 205, pi. vin, fig. E ; pi. I, fig. 13, pi. II, fig. 3, 1890; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xxn, No. 4, p. 166, pi. in, fig. i, 1892. Range. — Guatemala to British Columbia. Genus Amalia Moquin Tandon. * Amalia hewstoni Cooper. Limax (Amalia) hewstoni COOPER, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., for 1872, p. 145, pi. in, figs. BI-B5. Amalia hewstoni PILSBRY, Class. Cat., p. 29, 1898. Range. — San Diego to Seattle. San Francisco, Calif. ! This form may perhaps be an evolution from imported specimens of the European A. gagates. It probably extends into British Columbia. Family ARIONID^E. Genus Prophysaon W. G. Binney. Prophysaon andersoni Cooper. Arion? andersoni COOPER, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., for 1872, p. 148, pi. in, figs. FI-F5. — PILSBRY, op. cit. for 1898, p. 245, pi. x, figs. 18-22 ; pi. XI, figs. 28, 29 ; pi. xin, figs. 59-62 ; pi. xvi, figs. 92-93, 1898. Not P. andersoni. — BINNEY, in 2d Suppl. Terr. Moll., p. 42. Prophysaon andersoni BINNEY, 3d Suppl. Terr. Moll., v, p. 208, pi. in, fig. i, pi. vn, fig. c, pi. i, fig. 3, pi. ix, figs, i, j, 1890. Prophysaon andersoni vars. marmoratum and sujfusum COCKERELL, The Con- chologist, II, pp. 72, 1 1 8. Prophysaon hemphilli BLAND and BINNEY, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., x, p. 295, pi. xiir, excluding fig. 5. Prophysaon pacificum et P. flavum COCKERELL, Nautilus, in, p. in, Feb., 1890. — PILSBRY, op. cit., p. 246, 1898. Prophysaon andersoni var. pallidum COCKERELL, Nautilus, v, p. 31, July, 1891. Range. — San Francisco north to Alaska and eastward to Idaho. Variety pallidum Cockerell, Vancouver Island! British Columbia; Cape Fox, Alaska ! Type (andersoni} Victoria and Nanaimo, British Columbia. Var. pacificum Cockerell, Victoria, B. C. ! I have followed Dr. Pilsbry's arrangement of the varying forms of this remarkable self-amputating slug. FAMILY AKIONIDJB 47 * Prophysaon foliolatum Gould. Arion folio latus GOULD, Moll. U. S. Expl. Exped., p. 2, pi. i, figs. 2a, 2b, 1852 : Puget Sound. Phenacarion foliolatus COCKERELL, Nautilus, in, p. 127, Mar., 1890. Phenacarion hemphilliVJ. G. BINNEY, 3d Suppl. Terr. Moll., v, p. 208, pi. vni, fig. c, ix, fig. H ; 4th Suppl., p. 183 ; not Prophysaon hemphilli Bland and Binney. Prophysaon foliolatum (GOULD) PILSBRY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., for 1898, p. 248, pi. x, figs. 15, 1 6, 17; pi. xi, fig. 32; pi. xin, figs. 55, 56, 57, 58; pi. xiv, fig. 70; pi. xv, fig. 80; pi. xvi, figs. 90, 98. Range. — Puget Sound region. Prophysaon humile Cockerell. Prophysaon humile COCKERELL, Nautilus, HI, p. 112, Feb., 1890. — W. G. BINNEY, 3d Suppl. Terr. Moll., v, p. 211, pi. vn, figs. E, G, L, M, 1890. PILSBRY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., for 1898, p. 251, pi. xvi, fig. 97. Prophysaon fasciatum COCKERELL, in Binney, 3d Suppl. Terr. Moll. , v, p. 209, pi. vn, fig. A, 1890. — PILSBRY, op. tit., p. 251, pi. x, figs. 23-27 ; pi. xi, fig. 34; pi. xii, figs. 37-40; pi. xvi, figs. 91, 94-96. Prophysaon fasciatum var. obscurum COCKERELL, The Conchologist, H, p. 119, Mar. 1893. Range. — Northern Idaho to Puget Sound and northward to Alaska. P. humile Loring, Alaska ! Seattle ! P. fasciatum Old Mission, Idaho; Chehalis and Seattle, Wash. * Prophysaon coeruleum Cockerell. Prophysaon caeruleum COCKERELL, Nautilus, in, p. 112, Feb., 1890. — BIN- NEY, 3d Suppl. Terr. Moll., v, p. 209, pi. vn, figs, i, j, May, 1890. — PILSBRY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., for 1898, p. 253, pi. ix, figs. 7-11; pi. xi, fig. 30; pi. xin, figs. 51-53 ; pi. xvi, fig. 86, Nov., 1898. P. caruleum var. dubium COCKERELL, loc. cit., 1890. Range. — Portland, Oregon; Seattle and Olympia, Wash. Genus Ariolimax Morch. Ariolimax columbianus Gould. Limax columbianus GOULD, Terr. Moll., 11, p. 43, pi. LXVI, fig. I, 1851 ; Moll. U. S. Expl. Exp., p. 3, fig. i, a, b, 1852. Ariolimax columbianus MORCH, Mai. Bl.,vi, p. no, 1859. — BINNEY, Am. Journ. Conch., i, p. 48, pi. vi, figs. 11-13, ^65 ; Land and Fw. Shells N. Am., i, p. 279, fig. 499, 1869 ; Man. Am. Landsh., p. 98, figs. 58- 61, 1885. — PILSBRY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. for 1896, p. 342; 1898, p. 235, pi. xv, fig. 81; pi. xiv, fig. 66; pi. xv, figs. 73, 74, 1898. Range. — Santa Barbara, northward to Sitka,Victoria, and Nanaimo. Malcolm Island and Broughton Strait, British Columbia ; SE. Alaska (to Cross Sound?) Klawak, Prince of Wales Archipelago! Sitka, Alaska ! and probably north to Cross Sound and Icy Strait, or even Lituya Bay. 48 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS This is the common slug of British Columbia and Alaska, found in damp places in the wooded region. It varies from dark maculate to yellowish olive, and when full grown may reach a length of eight or nine inches, when fully extended. It is very fond of the leaves of the Alaskan skunk cabbage, a taste shared by bears and the Alaskan deer. It produces a profuse and most tenacious slime. When the Indians wish to catch the ruby -throat humming bird they gather two or three of these slugs and whip them with small bare twigs. Under this treatment slime is given off in large quantity and adheres to the twigs, which are afterward placed among the flowers visited by the hummers. If they alight on one of the twigs they cannot escape from the ad- hesiveness of this singular birdlime. It is said one of the ancient chiefs had a cape entirely covered with the resplendent plumage of the male ruby-throat, and which was regarded as incredibly valuable. The black spotted form seems to have been named maculatus, by Cockerell, and the yellow mutation stramineus , by Hemphill, but they occur in- discriminately in Alaska and are probably only individual color-muta- tions. 'Ariolimax steindachneri Babor. Ariolimax steindachneri BABOR, Ann. K.K. Naturh. Hof-Museum, Wien, xv, p. 85, 1900. Range. — Puget Sound. I am unable to state whether this is distinct or one of the mutations of A. columbianus. Genus Hemphillia Bland and Binney. FIG. 32. Hemphillia glandulosa Binney. * Hemphillia glandulosa B. and B. Hemphillia glandulosa BLAND and BINNEY, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., x, p. 209; pi. ix, figs, i, 3, 5, 15, 16, 17, 1872. — PILSBRY and VANATTA, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., for 1898, p. 233, pi. ix, figs, i, 2 ; pi. xn, figs. 49, 50. Range. — Astoria, Oregon, and Puget Sound region. * Hemphillia camelus Pilsbry and Vanatta. Hemphillia camelus PILSBRY and VANATTA, Nautilus, xi, p. 44, Aug., 1897 ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., for 1898, p. 234, pi. ix, figs. 3, 4 ; pi. xn, figs. 41, 42 ; pi. xvi, fig. 85. FAMILY ENDODONTID^E 49 Range. — Northern Idaho, at Old Mission. Like other species of northern Idaho this probably extends across the parallel into British America. Family ENDODONTIRffi. Genus Pyramidula Fitzinger. Subgenus Patula Held. Pyramidula solitaria Say. Helix solitaria SAY, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., u, p. 157, 1821. — BIN- NEY, Terr. Moll. U. S., I, p. 254, pi. viu, figs. 6-10 ; u, p. 208, pi. xxiv, 1851. Patula solitaria (SAY) BINNEY, Man. Am. Landsh., p. 254, figs. 263, 267, 268, 1885. Helix limitaris DAWSON, Rep. Brit. N. Am. Boundary Survey, Geology, pp. 347-35°. 1875. Pyramidula solitaria limitaris PILSBRY, Class. Cat. Am. Landsh., p. 31, 1898. Patula solitaria var. occidentalism w MARTENS, fide Pilsbry, 1. c., p. 31, 1898. Range. — Arkansas north to Ohio, west to eastern Oregon, and northward in Alberta. Var. limitaris, Waterton Lake, Rocky Mts. in Alberta; northern Idaho. Var. occidentalis, Dalles of the Columbia near Fort Vancouver; Coeur d'Alene Mts., Idaho. 34 FIGS. 33-35. Pyramidula alternata Say. * Pyramidula alternata Say. Helix alternata SAY, Nicholson's Encycl., ist Am. ed., u, pi. i, fig. 2, 1817. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., i, p. 73, figs. 122-129, 1869. Anguispira alternata MORSE, Journ. Portland Soc. N. Hist., I, p. 1 1, fig. 15, pi. iv, fig. 1 6, 1864. Helix dubia SHEPARD, Trans. Lit. Sci. Soc. Quebec, i, p. 194, 1829. Range. — Eastern North America as far north as Nova Scotia, Lower Canada, and the international boundary. Lake of the Woods ! (Kennicott) ; Canso, Nova Scotia {fide Bin- ney). Binney (op. cit., pp. 74, 76) gives the northeastern range of this species as Labrador, but Canso, where his specimens were obtained, is 50 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS in Nova Scotia, not Labrador. I have no authentic record of this species north of Lake of the Woods. Subgenus Gonyodiscus Fitzinger. Pyramidula striatella Anthony. Helix striatella ANTHONY, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., m, p. 278, pi. in, fig. 2, 1840. — GOULD, Inv. Mass., p. 178, fig. 112, 1841. Patula striatella BINNEY, Man. Am. Land Shells, p. 69, figs. 28, 29, 1885. Pyramidula (Gonyodiscus) striatella PILSBRY, Class. Cat. Am. Landsh., p. 32, 1898. Range, — Kansas northward to Great Slave Lake and from New England to the Sierra Nevada, and south to Arizona. Woods of the Winnipeg basin, Turtle Mt., Lake of the Woods ! English River ! Manitoba ; Moose Factory ! James Bay ; Great Slave Lake at Fort Resolution ! in Alberta at Laggan, Red Deer, Olds, and McLeod, west to the Selkirk Range. It is difficult to distinguish immature specimens of this species from P. cronkhitei Newc. , but when full grown perfect specimens are com- pared it is seen that striatella is a smaller shell with a proportionately larger umbilicus, it is of a richer brown color, more regularly and elegantly ribbed and more polished or glistening on the surface. The animal of striatella shows no red maculations through the translucent shell when living, such as are seen in P. ruder ata. Pyramidula cronkhitei Newcomb. Helix cronkhitei NEWCOMB, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., in, p. 180, 1865. Patula cronkhitei TRYON, Am. Journ. Conch., n, p. 263, 1866. — BINNEY, Man. Am. Landsh., p. 70, fig. 30, 1885. Pyramidula striatella cronkhitei PILSBRY, Class. Cat. Am. Landsh., p. 32, 1898. Patula pauper BINNEY (ex parte), Man. Am. Landsh., p. 187, 1885. Range, — Nevada and California in the wooded mountain region to 6,000 feet ; Klamath Lake and valley, Oregon, and northward. British Columbia at Nanaimo ; Lake Lindeman, Yukon Territory ; in Alaska at Sitka ! Chilkat Inlet ! and valley ; Chilkoot Inlet ! and valley ! shores of Yakutat Bay ! English Bay (Merriam) ! and St. Paul, Kadiak Island ! Popof and Unga Islands ! Shumagins ; Chika Rocks ! and Akutan Island ! Akutan Pass ; Unalaska (Dall, Elliott, Kincaid, Turner) ! Mr. Binney observes that this species is larger, of a lighter color, is more coarsely (and I may add more irregularly) striated than P. striatella. It also has when full grown a larger shell and relatively smaller and deeper umbilicus. I am obliged to confess that I am not able to distinguish shells long dead from those of P. ruderata, which FAMILY ENDODONTID^E 5 1 replaces this species on Bering Island and in Kamchatka. But when the animals are living P. ruderata shows through the translucent shell deep red or red-brown radiating maculations, which are situated on the mantle. After the shells have been dead some time this macula- tion disappears. Now the living/1, cronkhitei do not show any such color-markings. The presence of the latter led Morelet to name an immature ruderata, Helix Jloccata. The shell figured by von Martens in the Conchologische Mittheilungen under the name of Jloccata does not agree with Morelet's original diagnosis, and was not found by me during much energetic collecting at his locality, Petropavlovsk, Kam- chatka, in 1865. If, as stated by von Martens, it really comes from the original lot collected by Morelet it is evident that his diagnosis (which calls for a shell with an angular periphery like young ruderata) was founded on a mixture, of which young ruderata probably formed a part. But I am inclined to believe that von Martens was misled in regarding the shell he figured to be a native of Kamchatka. Pyramidula pauper Gould was described from the same locality as Morelet's Jloccata, and is undoubtedly the same as the shell I have called ruderata, following Morelet, Middendorff and others. But the P. cronkhitei from Unalaska and other places in Alaska which has been called pauper by Dr. Cooper and others, is our American shell. Mr. Binney thought it different from P. cronkhitei, but after much study and consideration I cannot confirm this opinion. Subgenus Planogyra Morse. *Pyramidula asteriscus Morse. Helix asteriscus MORSE, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vi, p. 128, 1857 ; Am. Nat, I, p. 546, fig. 43, 1867. Planogyra asteriscus MORSE, Journ. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., I, p. 24, figs. 51, 52 ; pi. II, fig. 5 ; pi. vni, fig. 53, 1864. flsUtflaasffrisfttsBlSHSy, Man. Am. Landsh., p. 186, figs. 185, 186, 1885. Pyramidula {Planogyrd) asteriscus PILSBRY, Class. Cat. Am. Landsh., p. 33, 1898. Range. — Maine; Provinces of Quebec and Ontario, Canada; Van- couver Island ? Tacoma, Wash. ? This species has been reported from British Columbia and Wash- ington, but it seems the identification is somewhat doubtful, and the shells were probably Punctum clappi Pilsbry. Genus Oreohelix Pilsbry. Oreohelix strigosa Gould. Helix strigosa GOULD, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., n, p. 166, 1846 : Moll. U. S. Expl. Exped., p. 36, fig. 41, 1852. — BINNEY, L. and Fw. Sh. N. Am., i, p. 72, 1869. 52 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS Helix cooperi BINNEY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., for 1858, p. 118 ; Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., I, p. 78, figs. 132-137, 1869. Helix haydeni GABB, Am. Journ. Conch., v, p. 24, pi. vin, fig. i, 1869. Anguispira bruneri ANCEY, La Nature, in, p. 468, Sept., 1881. Oreohelix strigosa PILSBRY, Nautilus, xvn, No. 11, p. 131, footnote, 1904. Range. — Type at Spokane, Wash., also in the Rocky Mountain region from northern Mexico to and somewhat beyond the 49th parallel westward from the Lake of the Woods. Var. cooperi, Lake of the Woods, and westward to the Rockies near the 49th parallel. Var. stantoni Dall (1905). Thirty-three miles southeast of Medi- cine Hat, Assiniboia, near top of Cypress Hills, altitude 4,700 feet ; latitude about 49° 30', west longitude 110° 10'. The variety stantoni is dwarfed, measuring in maximum diameter 10.0, minimum 8.5, and height 8.0 mm., with about five whorls, a peripheral brown band with a narrower one above and sometimes others on the base, the remainder ashy, rudely incrementally striate, with rounded periphery and deep narrow (i mm.) umbilicus. It is very similar to some varieties of the European H. virgata Da Costa. Eight specimens were collected by Dr. T. W. Stanton in 1903. A large number of names, varietal and other, have been given to the mutations of this species, which barely enters the region covered by this memoir, at its southern border near the Rocky Mountains. The group is viviparous, and the young attain a large size before extrusion. Genus Eelicodiscus Morse. Helicodiscus lineatus Say. Helix lineataStCi , Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, p. 18, 1819. — GOULD, Inv. Mass., p. 179, fig. 103, 1841. — MORSE, Am. Nat., i, p. 546, fig. 44, 1867. Planorbis parallelus SAY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., li, p. 164, 1821. Helicodiscus lineatus MORSE, Journ. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist, I, p. 25, figs. 61, 62, pi. ii, fig. 3; pi. vn, fig. 63, 1864. — BINNEY, Man. Am. Landsh., p. 75, figs. 34-37 A, 1885. Range. — New Mexico to Manitoba, New England to California. Reported as rare in Manitoba by Hanham. FIG. 36. Helicodiscus lineatus, shell and animal (magnified). FAMILY ENDODONTIDyE 53 Genus Punctum Morse. Punctum pygmaeum Draparnaud. Helix pygmaa DRAPARNAUD, Hist. Moll., p 114, pi. vm, figs. 8, 9, 10, 1805. Helix minutissima LEA, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., IX, p. 17 ; Proc., n, p. 82, 1841. — BINNEY, Terr. Moll., iv, p. 100, pi. LXXVII, figs. 6, 7, 1859. — MORSE, Am. Nat., i, p. 546, fig. 46, 1867. Punctum minutissimum MORSE, Journ. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., I, p. 27, figs. 69, 70, pi. vm, fig. 71, 1864. Microphysa pygmcea BINNEY, Man. Am. Landsh., p. 71, figs. 31-33, 1885. Punctum pygniceum PILSBRY, Class. Cat. Am. Landsh , p. 33, 1898. Range. — United States generally; Quebec; Manitoba; Victoria, Vancouver Island. Europe. * Punctum randolphi Dall. Pyramidula? randolphi DALL, Nautilus, vm, p. 130, Mar., 1895. Punctum randolphi PILSBRY, Nautilus, ix, p. 18, June, 1895. — DALL, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxiv, p. 500, pi. xxvii, figs. 7, 8, 9, 1902. Range. — Seattle, Wash. Probably exists throughout the Puget Sound region and adjacent British Columbia. Punctum clappi Pilsbry. Punctum c lappi PILSBRY, Nautilus, xi, p. 133, Apr., 1898 ; Class. Cat. Am. Landsh., p. 33, 1898. Range. — Oregon, Washington, Vancouver Island. Salem, Wash. ; Tacoma, Wash. ; Seattle, Wash. ; Nanaimo and Comox, Vancouver Island. This is probably the shell which has been reported as P. asteriscus Morse, from Vancouver Island and Tacoma. It has not been figured. Punctum conspectum Bland. Helix conspecta BLAND, Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist., vn, p. 163, fig. 7, 1865. Zonites conspectus BINNEY, Terr. Moll., v, p. 121, 1873 ; Man. Am. Landsh., p. 86, fig. 51, 1885. Punctum conspectum PILSBRY, Nautilus, xi, p. 133, Apr., 1898 ; Class. Cat. Am. Landsh., p. 32, 1898. Range. — West America from middle California northward, and east to the west slope of the Rocky Mountains. Kamchatka. California ! Oregon ; Washington ; Puget Sound region generally ; Victoria, British Columbia ! Departure Bay, Vancouver Island ! Sitka ! Chilkoot Inlet and valley ; Chilkat Inlet and valley ; Coal Harbor ! Unga Island, Shumagins ; Unalaska ! Alaska. Petropav- lovsk! Kamchatka (Dall). 54 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS The most common of the minute species in Alaska ; often found in numbers under bits of cast-off leather and chips near the tops of beaches. The Kamchatkan specimens are beyond suspicion. Genus Sphyradium Charpentier. Sphyradium edentulum Draparnaud. Pupa edentula DRAPARNAUD, Hist. Moll., p. 59, pi. in, figs. 28, 29, 1805. Pupa simplex GOULD, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist, in, p. 403, pi. in, fig. 21, 1840; Inv. Mass., p. 190, fig. 121, 1841. Vertigo simplex STIMPSON, Shells of N. Engl., p. 53, 1854. — MORSE, Am. Nat., I, p. 670, figs. 67, 68, 1868. — BINNEY, Man. Am. Landsh., p. 191, fig. 195, 1885. Pupa alticola INGERSOLL, Bull. U. S. Geol. Geogr. Survey of the Terr., No. 2, p. 128, 1875 ; ed. n, p. 391, fig., 1876. — BINNEY, Man. Am. Landsh., p. 174, fig. 166, 1885. Pupa columella ' ' BENSON, ' ' var. gredleri CLESSIN, from Alaska, is probably S. edentulum. Range. — Northern Europe, Asia and America. Canada ; heights of 8,000 to 9,000 feet in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado ! Un- gava Bay, Labrador ! Laggan, Alberta ; Vancouver Island at Comox, Nanaimo and Victoria ; Kukak Bay, Peninsula of Alaska ! Popof Island ! Shumagin Islands ; Rooluk Island near Unalga Pass, Aleutians ! Port , , ', -cj\ Clarence, Alaska ! Petropavlovsk ! Kam- chatka (Dall). This species has a wide distribution and considerable synonymy. UNIDENTIFIED SPECIES. The following Helicidce are incertce sedis. Helix rudis J. de C. Sowerby in Richardson, Fauna Bor. Am., in, app., p. 315, 1836. Nude name. " Lake Superior, Winnipeg and Saskatchewan River." Helix attenuata J. de C. Sowerby, op. cit., p. 315, 1836. Nude name. " Lake Superior, Winnipeg, and Saskatchewan River." Helix belcheri Pfeiffer, P. Z. S. London, for 1845, p. 128; Mon. Helic. Viv., i, p. 104; Reeve, Conch. Icon., Mon. Hehx, pi. 190, fig. 1328. This species, supposed to have been collected by Capt. Belcher, during his voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, has not been recognized from that quarter since ; and probably, like many other FAMILY SUCCINEID^E 55 species brought home by Belcher from time to time, had got wrongly labelled. Family SUCCINEDXffi. Genus Succinea Draparnaud. Succinea DRAPARNAUD, Tabl. Moll., pp. 32, 55, 1801 ; Hist, des Moll. Terr., pp. 24, 29, 58, 1805. Helix putris Linne and S, oblonga Drap. ; Blainville, Man., i, p. 455, 1825. < Amphibulima LAMARCK, Ann. du Museum, vi, p. 304, 1805; ist sp. A. cuculata Lam. = patula Brug. Froriep, Lam. Syst. Conch., p. 19, 1807. < Amphibulimus MONTFORT, Conch. Syst., n, p. 90, 1810. Lucena OKEN, Lehrb. d. Naturg., in, pp. x, 311, 312, 1815; Succinea putris (L.) Draparnaud. — HARTMANN, in Sturm, Fauna Deutschl., vi, pp. 27, 40, 54, 1821, L. pulchella Hartmann, sole ex. Not of Hart- mann Neue Alpina, i, p. 208. — MORCH, Vidensk. Medd., p. 296,1864. Amphibulina HARTMANN, in Sturm, Fauna Deutschl., vi, pp. 42, 55, 1821 ; i st sp. Helix putris L. Amphibina HARTMANN, Neue Alpina, I, p. 208, 1821. — MORCH, Syn. Moll. Dan., p. 33, 1864; Vidensk. Meddel. Kjob., p. 295, 1864; ist sp. S. Pfeiffcri Rossm. < Cochlohydra FERUSSAC, Tabl. Syst., pp. xxxn, 26, 1821. Succinia GRAY, in Turton, Man., 2nd ed., p. 110, 1840. Tapada STUDER, Syst. Verz., p. u, 1820. Succincea DESHAYES, Encyc. Meth., n, p. 18, 1830, passim. > Helisiga LESSON, Voy. Coquille, p. 316, 1829, H. sanctcehelence Lesson, H. and A. ADAMS, Gen. Rec. Moll., n, p. 130, 1855. > Helisigna MRS. GRAY, Fig. Moll. An., iv, pp. 55, 113, 1859. Neritostoma MORCH, Vidensk. Meddel. Kjob., for 1863, p. 294, 1864, ist sp. S. putris L. Tapada ALBERS, Heliceen, p. 55, 1850. — PFEIFFER, Mon. Hel. Viv., iv, pp. 803, 808, 1859. > Brachyspira PFEIFFER, Mon. Hel. Viv., iv, pp. 803, 804, 1859. Not of Ehrenberg, 1858. < Truella PEASE, P. Z. S., 1871, pp. 459, 472 ; type T. elongata Pease. Neritostoma WESTERLUND, Fauiiu d. Pal. Reg., n, v, pp. i, 2, 1885 ; S. putris L. Oxyloma WESTERLUND, op. cit., pp. i, 7, 1885 ; S. dunkeri (Zelebor). Amphibina WESTERLUND, op. cit., pp. i, 8, ist sp. S. elegans Risso. Lucena WESTERLUND, op. cit., pp. i, 14, ist sp. S. oblonga Draparnaud. This genus has been divided into sections on the basis of the den- ticulation of the jaw, as follows : Jaw without denticulations. Oxyloma (hungarica). Jaw with a single median denticle. Amphibina {Pfeifferi}. Jaw with a minute median denticle. Lucena {oblonga). Jaw with three denticles Neritostoma. = Succinea s. s. According to this scheme S. avara is an Amphibina, S. totteniana a typical Succinea, while 5". ovalis (Say) Morse has seven denticles and is unprovided for. The differences among the few species which 56 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS have been examined are so great that it is probably better to await a more thorough knowledge of all the species, in the light of which we can judge better whether this character has any systematic value or not. Our American species resemble one another so closely that it seems hardly likely that there are any fundamental differences between them. Succinea oregonensis Lea. Succinea oregonensis LEA, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., p. 32, 1841 ; Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., ix, p. 5, 1844. — BINNEY, Terr. Moll., n, p. 77, pi. LXVII, fig. 2, 1851. — TRYON, Am. Journ. Conch., u, p. 235, pi. (n) xvn, fig. 1 8, 1866. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., i, p. 270, fig. 485, 1869. Range. — California (to 6,500 feet alt .) , Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Victoria, B. C. ! Wallawalla, Wash. ! This species on the Pacific Coast takes the place in the fauna occupied in the East by S. avara Say, which it much resembles. The S. ' oregonensis ' reported from Winnipeg by Hanham was probably a variety of avara. The surface has a silky unpolished appearance, from the very fine close wrinkles with which it is covered, and which are characteristic. Succinea retusa Lea. Succinea retusa LEA, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., v, p. 117, pi. xix, fig. 86, 1837. — W. G. BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., i, p. 256, fig. 454, 1869. Succinea ovalis GOULD, Inv. Mass., p. 194, fig. 125, 1841, not of Say, 1817. Succinea haydeni var. minor W. G. BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., i, p. 256, 1869. — TRYON, Am. Journ. Conch., n, p. 236, 1866. Succinea decampi TRYON, Am. Journ. Conch., II, p. 237, pi. xvii, fig. 23, 1869. — BINNEY, /. c., p. 257. Range. — Northern United States, from Kentucky FIG. -18. Sue- northward to Canada and British America. cinearetusaLea. In Manitoba at Carberry, Lake of the Woods and Pembina Mountain ; in Alberta at Laggan and Red Deer. Ungava, Labrador ! James Bay at Moose Factory ! Lower Sas- katchewan near Lake Winnipeg ! Norway House ; York Factory ; Fort Resolution, Great Slave Lake ! Yukon River near old Fort Yukon, Alaska ! Stewart River, Yukon district ! Dall River, north of the Yukon ! Duncan Bay, Discovery Passage, British Columbia. A widespread and abundant species identified by comparison of the typical specimens or cotypes furnished by the author to the National Museum. FAMILY SUCCINEID^E 57 Succinea hawkinsi Baird. Succinea haivkinsi BAIRD, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 68, 1863. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., i, p. 268, fig. 481, 1869. Range. — British Columbia and eastward to Manitoba. Lake Osoyoos, B. C. ; Sitka, Alaska ! Carberry, Manitoba ! not common. A large species with a produced oblique aperture and acute spire. Quite close to S. sillimani Bland. Succinea avara Say. Succinea avara SAY, Rep. Long's Exped., n, p. 260, pi. xv, fig. 6, 1824. Succinea vermeta SAY, New Harmony Diss., n, No. 15, 1829. — TRYON, Am. Journ. Conch., n, p. 233, pi. (n) xvn, fig. 10, 1866. Succinea wardiana LEA, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., n, p. 31, 1841; A Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., ix, p. 3, 1844. — TRYON, Am. |TA Journ. Conch., n, p. 233, pi. (n) xvn, fig. 12, 1866. W} Succinea avara BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., i, p. 262, >•-' fig. 468, 1869. Fio. 39. Sue- Range. — North America east of the Rocky Moun- cine a avara tains from Texas to N. Lat. 62°. * Sa^ Lac des Mille Lacs to Lake of the Woods ; lower Saskatchewan near Lake Winnipeg! Two Creeks, Manitoba; Laggan, Red Deer, Olds, and McLeod, Alberta ; Fort Simpson, Mackenzie River in N. Lat. 62° ! Succinea gronlandica Beck. Succinea gronlandic a BECK, Index, p. 99, 1837 ; nude name. — MOLLER, Ind. Moll. Gronl., p. 4, 1842.— MORCH, Am. Journ. Conch., iv, p. 31, pi. in, fig. 10, 1868. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., I, p. 265, fig. 474, 1869. — POSSELT, Consp. Faunae Gronl., p. 263, 1898. Range. — Iceland and Greenland. This species is rather close to retusa Lea but seems sufficiently dis- tinct to be retained. Succinea grosvenori Lea. Succinea grosvenori LEA, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., for 1864, p. 109 ; Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., n. s., vi, p. 179, pi. xxiv, fig. 1 08, 1866. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., I, p. 260, fig. 462, 1869. Range. — North America, east of the Rocky Mts. from Louisiana to British America but not far east of clla'Tosvfnori ^ MississiPF- Lea"^ WoodMt., Manitoba ; Egg Lake and Red Deer, in Alberta ; upper Mackenzie River at Fort Simpson ! 1 Succinea verrilli Bland (1865, Binney, L. and Fw. Sh. N. Am., I, p. 264, fig. 472) is probably either the young or a dwarf form of this species. It is from Anticosti Id. 58 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOL.LUSKS The distribution indicated by the literature is rather odd for a shell ranging so far south, but there is no way of clearing up the doubt at present. Succinea rusticana Gould. Succinea rusticana GOULD, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. Hist., n, p. 187, 1846 ; Moll. U. S. Expl. Exp., p. 28, fig. 29, 1852. — TRYON, Am. Journ. Conch., n, p. 236, pi. (n) xvn, fig. 19, 1866. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., I, p. 269, fig. 483, 1869. Range. — Tulare valley, Calif., northward to British Columbia; the variety alaskana to Alaska. Comox, Vancouver Island, B. C. ! Sumas Prairie, Fraser River valley, B. C. ! Variety alaskana Dall,nov. Flats near St. Michael, Alaska ! Point Romanof ! Unalaska ! St. Paul, Kadiak Id. ! The Alaskan form is polished, of an olive greenish tinge, with rather inconspicuous lines of growth ; with 3 tumid whorls, the general form of rusticana as figured by Binney, but shorter and more tumid ; length 10, max. diam. 8, length of aperture 6.5 mm. This may prove, with more material, to be a distinct species. Succinea nuttalliana Lea. Succinea nuttalliana LEA, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., 11, p. 32, 1841. — BINNEY, Terr. Moll., n, p. 81, pi. LXVII, a, fig. 4, 1851. — W. G. BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., i, p. 269, fig. 484, 1869. Range. — Oregon, California, Washington and British Columbia. Victoria, Vancouver Island, B. C. This species was also reported by Randolph from the Lewes River, Yukon Territory, but in this case the shell was probably the quite similar 5". retusa Lea. Succinea obliqua Say. Succinea obliqua SAY, Rep. Long's Exp., n, p. 260, pi. xv, fig. 7, 1824.— BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., I, p. 265, fig. 475, 1869. ? Succinea ovalis SAY, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, p. 15, 1817. Not S. ovalis Gould. Succinea campestris GOULD, Inv. Mass., p. 195, fig. 126, 1841.— DE KAY, Nat. Hist. N. Y., Moll., p. 53. pi. iv, fig. 54, 1843. Succinea greeri TRYON, Am. Journ. Conch., II, p. 232, pi. (n) xvii, fig. 8, 1866. Range. — From Louisiana to Hudson Bay and FIG. 41. Sue- eastward to New England and Gasp£, but not west cinea obliqua. of the Mississippi Valley. FAMILY 59 Lac des Mille Lacs to Lake of the Woods ! Halifax, N. S. ; Duf- ferin, Manitoba ; Lake Winnipeg ! Moose Factory, James Bay ; Peace River, Athabaska ! Great Slave Lake at Fort Resolution ! Balaena Bay, Newfoundland ! If the identification with Say's unfigured o-valis were beyond dispute, the latter name is prior and would have to be adopted. Succinea chrysis Westerlund. Succinea chrysis WESTERLUND, Nachrbl. d. D. Mai. Ges., 1883, P- S1 I Vega Expd. Vetensk. lakttag. , iv, p. 198, pi. in, fig. 10, 1885. Succinea annexa WESTERLUND, Vega Expd., p. 199, pi. in, fig. n, 1885. Succinea chrysis var. aurelia VON MARTENS, Conch. Mitth., n, p. 184, pi. xxxin, figs. 21-22, 1885. Succinea lineata W. G. BINNEY, Man. Am. Landsh., app., p. 473, fig. 515, 1885, not S. lineata W. G. B., 1857. Range. — Boreal America from Greenland to Bering Strait, and on the opposite shore of the Strait. Greenland (Posselt) ; Fort Simpson, Mackenzie River; water- shed of the Yukon, near Dawson, Yukon Territory ! 30 miles below the Tanana River mouth on the Yukon, Alaska ! the Koyukuk River, north of the Yukon ! Nulato ! Andreafski ! and the Yukon delta ! Point Romanof ! shores of Norton Sound at Egg Island ! Besboro Island ! Cape Denbigh ! Norton Bay ! Golofnin Bay ! Port Clarence ! Konyam Bay on the Asiatic shore of Bering Strait ; St. Michael ! St. Mathew! St. Paul! and St. George! Islands, Bering Sea; north end of Nunivak Island ! the Aleutian chain ! Unalaska ! Kadiak Island ! Sitka ! At Chilkat Inlet, Alaska, Krause obtained the variety aurelia von Martens. This is the commonest and largest land shell of the boreal American region, passing through many mutations, but easily recognizable in all of them ; often with a rich coloration varying from olive brown to orange and usually lineated with more opaque lighter axial streaks. I do not regard it as identical with the S. lineata of W. G. Binney, though the species have some characters in common. Family LYMNJEIDJE. Genus Lymnaea Lamarck. Limnea cochlea LINNE, Fauna Svecica, ed. i, pp. 374, 376, 1746 (not binomial). Vesica (ex parte) ANONYMOUS, Mus. Calon., p. 58, 1797 ; Helix stagnalis (and amaruld) Linn6. Helix (sp.) LINNE, Gmelin, Bolten in Mus. Bolt., p. 109, 1798. 60 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS Lymnaa LAMARCK, Prodr. Nouv. Clas. Coq., p. 75, 1799 ; Syst. des An. s. Vert., p. 91, 1 80 1, Helix stagnalis Linne. Limneus DRAPARNAUD, Tableau, pp. 30, 47, 1801, no type cited ; Hist., pp. 25, 28, 48, 1805. — GOSSE, Nat. Hist. Moll., p. 86, 1854. — TURTON, Man., p. 127, 1831, type L. stagnalis L. > Galba SCHRANK, Fauna Boica, in, pt. 2, pp. 262, 285, 1803 ; sole ex. L. truncatula Miiller. Lymnaa Roissv, Hist. Nat. Moll., v, p. 345, 1805. — LAMARCK, Encycl. Meth., pi. 459, 1816. — SCHUMACHER, Essai, p. 199, 1817. — LAMARCK, An. s. Vert., vi, 2, p. 157, 1822. Lymnaus CUVIER, Regne An., n, p. 412, 1817. Lymnus MONTFORT, Conch. Syst., n, p. 262, 1810, L. stagnalis L. Lymnea Risso, Hist. Nat. Eur. Men, iv, p. 94, 1826 ; ist sp. L. pereger (Muller). Not Lymnea Rafinesque, Pisces, 1815. > Radix MONTFORT, Conch. Syst., n, p. 266, 1810. Helix auricularia Linne, sole ex. — MORCH, Vidensk. Meddel. Kjob., p. 302, 1864. Ltmnea FLEMING, Hist. Brit. An., p. 273, 1828. Limncea DESMAREST, Rapp., Soc. Philom. Paris, 1812. — BLAINVILLE, Malac, i, p. 448, 1825. — BECK, Index, p. no, 1838. — MOQUIN TANDON, Hist., Nat. Moll. France, u, p. 458, 1855. Lymneus BRARD, Hist, des Coq. Terr, et Fluv. Paris, p. 133, pi. 5, 1815. — SAY, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., n, p. 167, 1821. > Lymnula RAFINESQUE, Journ. de Phys., LXXXVIII, p. 423, 1819 ; = Lym- nea of Authors, fide Rafinesque, 1. c. > Omphiscola RAFINESQUE, op. cit.t p. 423, 1819. No species cited, but the only Ohio shell corresponding even moderately to the diagnosis is L. reflexa Say. > Gulnaria LEACH, Proofsheets, pp. 146, 148, 1819 ; fi de Turton, Man., p. 117, 1831.— GRAY'S Turton, p. 232, 1840.— GRAY, P. Z. S., 1847, p. 180 ; type L. auricularia (Linne). Stagnicola LEACH, Proofsheets, pp. 141, 145, 1819. — JEFFREYS, Linn. Trans. xvi, ii, p. 376, May 29, 1830, L. pahistris Muller. — TURTON, Man., pp. 121-124, Oct., 1831. — GRAY'S Turton, pp. 237-242, 1840. — GRAY, P. Z. S., 1847, p. 1 80; no type cited. — LEACH, Synops. Moll. Gt. Brit., p. 101, 1852, ist sp. L.glaber (Muller). Not Stagnicola Brehm, Aves, Dec., 1830. Auricularia FABRICIUS, Fortegnelse, p. 94, 1823 (nude name), not of Blain- ville, 1816. > Omphiscola BECK, Index, p. no, 1838, L. glabra (Muller). — H. and A. ADAMS, Gen. Rec. Moll., n, p. 255, 1855 ; not Omphiscola Raf., 1819. ~>Limnophysa FITZINGER, Syst. Verz., p. 112, 1833; type L. palustris (Muller). — BECK, Index, p. no, 1838. — MORCH, Vidensk. Medd.,p. 298, 1864. > Leptolimnea SWAINSON, Malac., p. 338, 1840; L. elongata Sowerby, = L. glaber (Muller). — MORCH, Vidensk. Meddel. Kjob., p. 298, 1864. Adelina CANTRAINE, Mai. Med., I, p. 155, 1841 ; type A. elegans Cantraine, not Adelina Chevrolat, Coleopt, 1833. Leachia JEFFREYS, Linn. Trans., xvi, in, p. 519, 1833, not of Risso, 1829, or Lesueur, 1821, L. stagnalis (Linne). > Bulimnea HALDEMAN, Mon. Limn., part 3, p. 6, July, 1841 ; typeZ/w# Acella HALDEMAN, Mon. Limn., part 3, p. 6, July, 1841 ; type Limnea gracilis (Say) Haldeman. > Pleurolimncea MEEK, Checkl. N. Am. Fos. Eocene, pp. 9, 34, 1866 ; Rep. Inv. Foss. Upper Missouri, p. 533, 1876 ; type P. tenuicostata Meek and Hayden (Eocene). FAMILY LYMN^EIDyE 6 1 > Polyrhytis MEEK, Rep. Inv. Fos. Upper Missouri, p. 532, 1876 ; type Linincua kingi Meek (Pliocene). > Omphiscola MEEK, Rep. Inv. Fos. Upper Missouri, p. 533, 1876 ; type Limncea glabra (Miiller) ; not of Rafinesque. Omphatia "RAF.," Meek, op. cit., p. 532, in syn. ; err. pro Omphiscola Rafinesque. ? Erinna H. and A. ADAMS, Gen. Rec. Moll., n, p. 644, 1858; type E. neivcombi Adams. > Neritostoma H. and A. ADAMS, Gen. Rec. Moll., n, p. 253, 1855, ist sp. L, auricularia (Linne). Not of Morch, 1864. / Velutinopsis SANDBERGER, Land u. siissw. Conch, d. Vorwelt, p. 700, 1875, type Limncea velutina Desh. (Lower Pliocene). > Leptolimnceus SANDBERGER, Land u. siissw. Conch, d. Vorwelt, p. 787, 1875 ; sole ex. cited L. glaber (Miiller). Eulimneus SANDBERGER, Land u. siissw. Conch, d. Vorwelt, pp. 787, 844, 1875 ; sole ex. cited L. stagnalis (L). > Fossaria WESTERLUND, Fauna, Pal. Reg., v, p. 49, 1885 ; L. truncatula (Miiller); Acta Soc. Sci. Slav. Mend., CLI, p. 118, 1902. > Tanousia BOURGUIGNAT, in Servain, Hist. Mai. du Lac Balaton, i88i.1 Type L. zrmanjce Brusina ; Westerlund, op. cit., p. 53, 1885, p. 118, 1902. > Lymnophysa (FITZINGER) HAZAY, Mai. Blatt., 2d ser., in, p. 163, 1881. > Limnus DYBOWSKI, Bull. Imp. Acad. Sci. St. Petersburg, xvm, p. 113, March, 1903, not of Agassiz, nom., 1847. > Omphalolimnus DYBOWSKI, Nachrichtsbl. d. d. Mai. Ges., Sept. -Oct., 1903, xxxv, p. 143, 1903. Type L. lagorii Dybowski ; Bull. Acad. St. Petersb., xvni, p. 113, 1903. > Physastra TAPPARONE CANEFRI, Ann. Mus. Genov., xix, p. 245, 1883. Type P. vestita T.-C., op. cit., p. 246. New Guinea. > Zagrabica BRUSINA, Beitr. Pal. Oest.-Ung., 1884, Z. naticoides Brus. — WESTERLUND, Acta Acad. Sci. Slav. Mend., CLI., p. 119, 1902. Not Limncea Poli, Test. Utr. Sicil., I, p. 31, 1791, u, p. 253, 1795 (not binomial). The genus Lymncea as now understood is due to Lamarck, though several authors, including Westerlund as late as 1885, have given credit for it to Bruguiere. This has probably arisen from a failure to observe the dates of the different livraisons which contained the plates of the Encyclopedic Methodique. The plate containing the name Lymncea was not issued until 1816 (though often cited as 1791), and then it was under the supervision of Lamarck, Bruguiere having nothing to do with it. The name Lymncea had already been used by Poli, in 1791, for the animal of various unrelated bivalves, but his ingenious quadrinominal system takes the work of Poli out of the category of those which can be cited in nomenclature, except historically. 1 The multitude of group names used for mutations of Lymncea stagnalis and other species by Servain in his ' Lake Balaton ' paper, can hardly be regarded as having entered into systematic nomenclature, as they are groups of less value than species, and physiological rather than hereditary, according to Hazay. 62 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS The name Lymncea has been spelled in many different ways, the most correct being Limncea, but there seems to be no good reason for changing the original form, especially as no derivation was given by Lamarck. The Helix stagnalis of Linne, being the only species mentioned, necessarily becomes the type. Four years after Lamarck, Schrank gave the name Galba to a species which was without doubt the Buccinum truncatulum of Miiller. It has been referred to B. palustre Miiller, but a scrutiny of the very careful description of both shell and animal reveals that it agrees with no local species of the group except a young truncatula. A little later Montfort separated the L. auricularia group under the name of Radix, and in 1819 Rafinesque, in a summary of the forms collected on the Ohio River, proposed Omphiscola for species which have the peristome reflected over the pillar and body with an umbilical chink between the reflection and the body of the shell. He cites no species, but of the Ohio species only L. reflexa Say can be said to agree with the diagnosis. This character is however of minor impor- tance. Rafinesque's name has been applied to several European species but without adequate grounds, since there is no species of the Radix group known in any part of the Ohio system. The name Stagnicola Leach was cited in synonymy by Jeffreys in 1830, in connection with L. palustris (Miiller) , thus antedating Lim- nophysa Fitzinger, 1833, based on the same type. Stagnicola was used by Brehm for a bird in December, 1830, but Jeffreys' paper was issued May 29. Both these names have been loosely used in the lit- erature, but must be restricted to the typical and original forms. If the columnar species like L. glaber be separated in a section by them- selves, Leptolimnea Swainson appears to be the first available name. Erinna Adams is a Limnasid modified for existence on rocks in rapid streams and waterfalls, the peristome being continued over the body and behind the broad excavated pillar, and the spire shortened, so that the animal may cling tightly to its situs. The descriptions of this form are rather misleading, the so-called ' lamina ' being merely the pillar. The fossil Velutinopsis is more like Choanomphalus than Lymncea, judging by the figures. The description of Tanousia reads as if it was founded upon an abnormal or monstrous specimen. The reversed physiform Lymncea of the South Sea Islands will be included under Physastra Tapparone-Canefri ; a species from Hawaii which is dextral but may be otherwise similar, has recently been shown by Pilsbry to have a somewhat different radula from the ordinary Lym- ncea of north Europe and America. FAMILY LYMN^EID^E 63 Dybowski has recently applied the name Omphalolinmus to a species of Lymncea from the Crimea, which in outline resembles L. stagnalis var. arenaria Colbeau, but which instead of having the axis pervious and the pillar gyrate, as in most species of this type, has the subumbilicate base and raised inner lip of the Radix section, to which his L. lagorii probably belongs, although it has a more ele- vated spire than most of the species of this section, being in this re- spect intermediate between the latter and Lymncea proper. The existence of fresh water shells in lakes or ponds where the water, through evaporation, is gradually becoming more alkaline, has been shown to be accompanied, in the lake-beds of the Great Basin of the western United States, by a tendency to solidification, thickening and corrugation or ribbing of the shells, regardless of their systematic relations. This goes on until the alkalinity becomes so great that mol- luscan life is no longer possible. We find in the fresh water Pliocene beds of Utah, Lymncea, Pompholyx, Carinifex, Physa and Planorbis exhibiting these changes as we ascend in the beds, until the latter be- come barren of life. To these modifications we probably owe such forms as Polyrhytis, Pleurolimncea, Vorticifex, etc. I have shown in another place1 how such factors may be supposed to act in the case of land shells exposed to alkaline dust on tropical islands such as the Galapagos. While such changes are the result of the direct action of the environment on the individual, and not hereditary or evolutionary, it is nevertheless convenient to recognize the results in the systematic arrangement of the species. Disregarding synonyms, which can be deduced from the preceding data, the general arrangement of the groups of the genus Lymncea would be about as follows : Subgenus Lymnaea s. s. Section Lymncea s. s. Shell thin, with an acute and slender spire and expanded last whorl ; the axis twisted, forming a (usually per- vious) spiral coil without a true umbilicus ; the callus on the body closely appressed ; the outer lip flaring more or less, simple, sharp, normally without any varical thickening. Type L. stagnalis (Linn£) . Holarctic. Section Bulimnea Haldeman. Shell large and solid, bulimiform, with an impervious axis, a twisted or subplicate pillar, the callus on the body and pillar closely appressed, and the outer lip not thickened or expanded. Type Lymncea megasoma Say. Nearctic. 1 Proc. A(»d. Nat. Sciences Phila., for 1896, pp. 406-426. 64 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS Section Radix Montfort. Shell thin, usually with a short spire and ample last whorl ; the axis twisted but not gyrate, the outer lip often expanded, the inner one more or less elevated and continuous across the body, forming a more or less conspicuous umbilicus ; the outer lip thin. Type Lymncea auricularia (Linne) . Holarctic. The umbilicus in this group varies from a mere chink to a rather large orifice through which a bristle may be passed nearlv to the apex of the shell. Section Cyclolimncea Dall, nov. Shell thin, involute, the last whorl as long as the shell, the outer lip thin, simple, not expanded, the inner lip appressed, the axis not plicate, but with a small umbilical chink. Type Lymncea involuta Harvey. British. The mantle is said to be extended partly over the shell. Section Polyrhytis Meek. Shell like Radix, but axially strongly ribbed. Type L. £u£?*Meek. Pliocene, N. Am. Section Acella Haldeman. Shell thin, smooth, acute, extremely slender; the aperture expanded at the margin, the inner lip not appressed, a moderate chink behind it, the axis gyrate, pervious, not plicate; the outer lip simple, sharp. Type L. gracilis Jay. Nearctic. Section Pleurolimncea Meek. Shell like Acella, but axially promi- nently ribbed. Type L. tenuicostata Meek and Hayden. Eocene, N. Am. Section Galba Schrank. Shell turrited, the whorls gradually in- creasing, smooth ; the last whorl not inflated ; the aperture moderate ; the outer lip not expanded or thickened ; the inner lip not appressed ; the pillar not twisted or plicate, the axis minutely umbilicate. Type L. truncatula (Miiller). Holarctic. Subgenus Stagnicola Leach. Section Stagnicola s. s. Shell elongate, smooth, the whorls gradu- ally increasing, the last whorl moderate ; the outer lip sharp, not ex- panded, with a varical thickening within, in the adult ; the pillar dis- tinctly plicate, the inner lip appressed, the axis slightly or not at all perforate. Type L. palustris (Mil Her). Holarctic. Section Leptolimnea Swainson. Shell like Stagnicola but more cylindrical, with numerous whorls and a small aperture. Type L. glaber (Muller). Palearctic. ? Section Physastra Tapparone-Canefri. Shell like Stagnicola but with a coarse dehiscent periostracum and coiled sinistrally. Type P. vestita T.-C. Polynesian. FAMILY LYMNuEID^E 65 Genus Erinna Adams. Shell small, with a short spire, a large final whorl ; the aperture with a continuous peristome which passes behind a broad somewhat excavated pillar ; axis imperf orate and the pillar not plicate. Type E. newcombi Adams. Hawaiian. Incerta sedis. Velutinopsis Sandberger. Shell almost planorboid, with few, rounded, rapidly increasing whorls ; the aperture simple, suborbicular, the peristome sharp, simple, not reflected ; the pillar lip broad, not appressed; the axis umbilicate. Type L. velutina Deshayes. Plio- cene of the Crimea. Tanousia Bourguignat. Shell small ovate conic, closely and almost involutely coiled ; the last whorl inflated, subcarinate behind, the aper- ture contracted. Type L. zrmanjce Brusina. Pleistocene of Dalmatia. The group was named Sandria by Brusina in 1885,^/2 Westerlund. Zagrabica Brusina. Shell ventricose, with a short acute spire and few rounded whorls, rugose, urnbilicate, the last whorl ample, with a rotund transverse aperture, and continuous peristome appressed on the columellar margin ; the outer lip simple. The type is a Pleistocene fossil. A recent form from the Caspian has been referred to this group by Dybowski, under the name of Z. brusiniana. I have not seen specimens, but the description reads as if the shell might be a member of the Radix group which has been modified by life in brackish water. Lymnaea stagnalis Linnet Helix stagnalis LINNE, Syst. Nat., ed. x, p. 774, 1758; ed. XII, p. 1249, 1767. Lymnaa stagnalis LAMARCK, Prodr., p. 75, 1799. Lymnaa jugularis SAY, Art. Conchology, Nicholson's Encyc., I (no pagina- tion), 1817 ; 3d ed. (p. 6), 1819. — HALDEMAN, Mon. Limn., p. 16, pi. iv, 1841. Lymncea appressa SAY, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., II, p. 168, 1818. — HALDEMAN, Mon. Limn., p. 18, pi. v, 1842. HmncEa stagnalis W. G. BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., n, p. 25, figs. 28-32, 1865. Range. — Europe, the Caucasus, western and northern Asia, the northern United States, Canada and British America. Lake Superior, Lake Winnipeg ! the Saskatchewan River ! Carberry, Manitoba ; Moose Factory, James Bay ! Knee Lake, Keewatin ! Slave River, 25 miles below Peace River ! Great Slave Lake at Fort Rae ! and Fort Resolution ! Fort Simpson ! and Fort Smith ! on the Mac- 66 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS FIG. 42. Lymncea stagnalis. kenzie River ; Fort Anderson, Lat. 68° N. ! and Lake Harrison, Lat. 70° N ! Shawnigan Lake, Vancouver Island ! and Dall River, Lat. 66° N. ! of the Yukon drainage in Alaska. The following additional localities are cited from the literature : York Factory, Keewatin, and the Nel- son River ; Egg Lake, Alberta ; Red Deer, McLeod, and Olds ; Lake Isle Lacrosse and Vermilion Lake ; Lake Osoyoos, B. C. (but replaced west of the Cascades by L. sumassii, according to J. K. Lord) ; Syniakwateen Lake, B. C. ; lakes in the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska (Wossnessenski) ; Stewart River, Yukon district (Canadian Geol. Survey). It seems unnecessary to cite the multitudinous varietal names bestowed on the mutations of this species in Europe. In a wide sense it is one of the most easily recognizable of fresh water shells, as it is one of the most conspicuous of circumboreal species. Lymnaea peters! n. sp. Plate n, fig. 3. Shell extremely thin, of five or more tumid rapidly enlarging whorls ; spire acute, the suture deep ; whorls rounded, the periphery nearer the preceding suture ; shell of a blackish brown, polished, finely sharply spirally striate ; periostracum brownish, darker at resting stages ; aperture oval, a thin wash of callus on the body ; pillar very thin, gyrate, the gyrations pervious ; the outer lip not thickened. Height 16; max. diam. 8; height of aperture 8.5; width 5.2 mm. Range. — Koyukuk River, north of the Yukon in Alaska; W. J. Peters of the U. S. Geological Survey. This very delicate and pretty species appears to belong to the typical Lymncea in spite of its small size ; it has much the aspect of a minute L. randolphi, but has more whorls in less than half the height, and is of quite a different color and without angularity to the whorls. Lymnaea atkaensis Dall. Plate n, figs. 8, 10. Limnaa atkaensis DALL, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vn, p. 343, 1884. Range. — Lake on the island of Atka, Aleutian chain, near Korovin Bay. Shell with about four ovate whorls rapidly increasing, of a dark olive sometimes purplish tint, very thin, malleated, microscopically reticulated, with obscure revolving ridges ; the aperture ovate, not expanded, the margins thin, that on the pillar narrowly reflected; FAMILY LYMN^EID^E 67 pillar gyrate, pervious, in the early whorls widely so, a condition concealed in the adult. This form grows in a region containing little lime, and the shells are extremely thin and often eroded into holes, which exhibit the peculiarities of the axis by which the species is relegated to the typical Lymnaeas, though externally it has much the appearance of a small Radix. The species has been figured in the newer portion of the Conchylien Cabinet, but I have not the reference at hand. Adults measure : Height. Max. Diam. Height of Aperture. Width. Whorls. 26.5 16.5 16.5 10.5 4 24.0 13.0 14.0 9.2 y/i 17.0 11.5 n.2 7.5 4% *Lymnaea lepida Gould. Limnaa lepida GOULD, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., n, p. 211, 1847 ; Moll. U. S. Expl. Exp., p. 121, figs. 141, I4i«, 1852. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., n, p. 29, fig. 33, 1865. Range. — Lake Vancouver, Oregon (Wilkes) ; near Challis, Idaho (Merriam) ! A species existing near the boundary and doubtless FIG. 43. Lym- to be found in southern British Columbia. n(ea lepida Gould. *Lymnaea (Bulimnea) megasoma Say. Lymna-us megasomus SAY, Rep. Long's Exp., n, p. 263, pi. xv, fig. 10, 1824. — KUSTER, Conch Cab., ed. u, Limncea, p. 36, pi. vi, figs. 20, 21. Umnea megasoma HALDEMAN, Mon. Limn., p. 13, pi. in, figs. 1-3, 1841. — WHITFIELD, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. N. Y., I, No. 2, p. 29, pi. v, 1882. Limncea megastoma SOWERBY, Conch. Icon., xvui, pi. n, fig. 12, 1872. Limncea megalosoma SANDBERGER, Conch, d. Urw., p. 581, 1873. Range. — Northern New England, Canada and British America to Lat. 57° N. Lake Superior! Vermilion Lake, H. B. T. ; to Etchimamish Lake, in Lat. 57° between the Nel- FIG. 44. Lymncea son River and the Height of Land, Keewatin; megasoma Say. Bois Blanc Lake, Manitoba ! The British American localities are cited from the literature, and except the last I have been unable to verify them by an examination of authentic specimens. 68 LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSKS Lymnaea (Radix) mighelsi Binney. LLmncea decollata MIGHELS, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., i, p. 49, 1841. — MIGHELS and ADAMS, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., iv, p. 336, pi. iv, fig. 13 (four views), 1842. Limnea catascopium HALDEMAN, Mon. Limn., p. 52, 1842 ; not of Say. Limnaus decollatus KUSTER, Conch. Cab., ed. n, Mon. Limn., p. 45, pi. vui, figs. 11-14, 1862. Limncea ampla MIGHELS, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., iv, p. 347, pi. xvi, figs. la-ic, April, 1843 ; not of Hartmann, 1842. — BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., 11, p. 30, figs. 34-35, 1865. Ltmncea mighelsi, W. G. BINNEY, Land and Fw. Sh. N. Am., n, p. 31, foot- note, 1865. Limncea angulata SOWERBY, Conch. Icon. , xvui, Mon. Limncea, pi. vn, fig. 47, Dec., 1872. Limncea emarginata SAY, var. mighelsi BINNEY, Nylander, Distr. of Limnaa, etc., pis. i-iv, 1901. Range. — Aroostook Co., Maine; Province of Quebec; northern Michigan ? Aroostook Co., Maine! Brome Lake, Province of Quebec! Lake Namakan, north of Lake Superior, western Ontario ; Lake of the Woods, Manitoba. The earliest name of this species is decollata, which was applied to a stunted variety living in acidulous water which destroyed the early whorls. This name, however, being quite inapplicable to the normal shell, would best be kept for the shells to which it was applied, and retained in a varietal sense. After an examination of Say's types of L. emarginata I am quite confident, as species go in Lymncea, that it is distinct from the present form, which I have never seen from the Western region. This species, L. ' • / / ^m\ mighelsi, is apparently a representative of Radix, while the thickening of the outer lip internally in L. emarginata var. canadensis leads to the suspicion that it is related to Stagnicola. Owing to the manner in which various forms of emarginata have been summarily united with L. mighelsi by rep- utable students, I shall on the present occasion waive this doubt and proceed to its immediate consideration. It may, however, be pointed out that W. G. Binney seems to have been of the same opinion when, in 1865, he placed L. emarginata in the same group as L. palustris. Lymnaea (Stagnicola?) emarginata Say. Lymneus emarginatus SAY, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., II, p. 170, 1821 ; Long's Exp. Rep., n, p. 263, 1824 (Maine). ? Limneus emarginatus SAY, Am. Conch., vi, pi. 55, fig. I, 1834. Umneus ontariensis MUHLFELDT in Kiister, i^fa, fide W. G. Binney, op. «!., p. 52, 1865. FAMILY LYMN^EID^E 69 Limnea emarginata HALDEMAN, Mon. Limn., p. 10, pi. n, figs. 4-5, 1841. f Limnea serrata HALDEMAN, Mon. Limn., p. 12, pi. n, fig. 7, 1841 (path- ologic specimen, figure copied by Binney, op. cit., p. 52, fig. 78). Limnaa scalaris WESTERLUND, Vega Exp. Vet. lakt., iv, p. 201, pi. iv, fig. 13, 1885. Not L. scalaris A. Braun, 1853, or Sowerby, 1872. LimtKza canadensis SOWERBY, Conch. Icon., xvm, Mon. Umncea, pi. vn, figs. 45, a-bt 1872. Range. — Northern United States east of the Mississippi, Canada, and northwestward. Lakes in northern Maine (Say) ! Lake Champlain and Ontario; Crooked Lake, Emmet Co., Michigan ! English River, Keewatin, Hudson Bay ! Port Clarence, Alaska (Vega Expd.). After considerable study I have been forced to the conclusion that several species were identified under this name by Say himself, as well as others. Say's figure is wretched and does not represent the typical form from Maine, as at first described. The latter is apparently represented by specimens labelled by Say himself, still preserved in the Academy at Philadel- phia, and which must be regarded as typical. The FlG- 4<>- Lym- shell is small, with an acute spire ; one of the specimens n^a