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INDEX TO TITLES.
American Association of Conchologists. . ; , : 140
Ancylus excentricus Mor. . : , 64
Annotated List of the Shells of St. reustne, Fla. 103, ia: en ley
Anodonta fluviatilis. : : : - 67
Arion foliolatus Gld. rediscoy Med: : : : 105
Arion foliolatus, On the generic position of : 5 128
Bermuda Shells. : 9
Brief Notes on the Land anid Fresh Water Shells of Mercer
Co., Ill. : ? ; F é aos
Bulimulus, a New Renin: ; : ' : : : 122
Bulimulus Ragsdalei, n. sp. ; : : 122
Bulimulus Hemphilli Wright. . ; : ; ma ks
Bythinia tentaculata L. in Ohio. : a: ; 46
Cast up by the Sea. . ; 5
Collecting Land Shells in Sonthert Galiforaia. 4 . , 77
Collecting Land Shells in Eastern New York. . 109, 129
Corolla, On the Genus, : 5 ; ‘ ; =
Crepidula glauca, notes on. : : ; s : 97
Crepidula glauca vs. convexa. . : : : . 106
Crepidula, A few last words on ‘ ’ : : 128
Critiques and comments. . 64
Cypraea, Notes on the genus. é ; 10
Cypraea venusta Sowb. .. : . 60
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Floridian Shells, Notes on 53
Genus making. 5
Glandina bullata Gla. 83
Helix Roperi, n. sp. 14
Helix Dentoni, n. sp., feecenption of. 17
Helices new to the fauna of the United States. 25
Helix Kelleti Fbs. 35
Helix nemoralis in Virginia. 51
Helix nemoralis, The Virginia Cateng of 73
Helix hirsuta on the West Coast. 81
Helix (Triodopsis) edentata, n. sp., Description oF 85
Helix Streatori, n. sp. 95
Helix granum Strebel. 25
Helix clausa Say. 132
Helix hortensis in America. 140
Helicina occulta, Distribution of 18, 20
Helicina occulta in Brown Co., Wis. 113
Hemphillia (Genus.) 59
Hyalina Sterkii Dall. 59, 96
In a Maine Conchologist’s Hunting Grong SF
Leaves from a Diary. 1438
Limax eaten by Salamanders. 19
Limax agrestis in Philadelphia, Pa. 95
Limax Hewstoni in Los Angelos Co., Cal. 105
Limosina in Texas. 9
List of the Shells of the Nev Jenen coat OW,
List of the Mollusea of Colorado. 99
Lophocardium, Notes on 13
Mammoth Land Shell. 29
New American Shells. 95
New Varieties of North American and Shells. 2 E 133
New Western Slugs. , : : Tit
Notes on variation of certain Malinees snereduced from
Europe. 86
Notes upon Mr. Ancor s criticism. : 42
Notes on some Northern Pupidse with Jeena ge a new
species. : : 117, 123; 134
Ocinebra (O. Senet n. Say Decent of a new 80
On a Singular Imitation in Ostrea Virginica. 26
On Mr. Pilsbry’s critics upon some American Shells. 39
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Paludina sealaris Jay. : 8
Patula Cooperi in Colorado and Utah. 8
Patula caeca Guppy 25, 62
Patula inerustata Pfr. 63
Patula strigosa, n. var. subcarinata. 133
n. var. bicolor. 133
n. var. lactea. 134
n. var. jugalis. 134
n. var. intersum. 135
Phenacarion n. ¢ 127
Physa triticea, Notes on 49
Planorbis Liebmanii Dkr. 60
Planorbis cultratus Orb. . : : . 3 : 63
Poecilozonites circumfirmatus var. corneus. ; : 95
Proceedings of Scientific Societies. —. : 3 : 20
Prophysaon. : 59
Publications received. : : 12, 24, | 30; Aq, 71, 83, 107, 144
Pupa Holzingeri, n. sp... : : . 387, 96
Pupa calamitosa, n. sp... ; 61
Pupa Sterkiana, n. sp. ; : : ; 95
Pupa Pilsbryana, n. sp. 123
Pyrgula, on lingual dentition, ete. = : : 107
Recent addition to the United States Snail Bane : : 61
Scalaria angulata in New Jersey. : : 52
Scalaria, on the New Jersey coast... 106
Shells new to the United States Fauna. ‘ : : 60
Sheil collecting in Southern Texas. . : 60
Shell Bearing Mollusca of Rhode Island. 21, 2, 44, ‘5G, 69, 82, 92
Sphaerium Cubense Prime. ; : : : , 19
Strobila Hubbardi A.D. B. .. : : 20
Summer Studies in Conchology. ‘ 54
Trochus infundibulum, notes on the soft par Hn ao ; : 2
Tylodina, on a new species of. 122
Unio complanatus in Michigan. ; : 16
Valvata (Lyogyrus) Brownii, notes on. . : 67
What isa species? . : , ; : , . 78, 88
Word to Young Collectors. : : : : : 115
Zonites Ligerus var. Stonei, n. var. . 46
Zonites selenitoides, n. sp. : é : : 95
Zonites (Guppya ?) Gundlachi Pfr. : ; 63
INDEX TO CONTRIBUTORS.
Aldrich, T. H.
Ancey, C. F.
Baker. .C.
Binney, W. G.
Campbell, John H.
Carpenter, H. F.
Cockerell, T. D. A.
Dall, Dr. Wm. H.
Ford, John.
Ford, Frank J.
Hemphill, Henry.
Hinkley, A. A.
Johnson, C. W.
Keep, Prof. Josiah.
Keyes, C. R.
Lind, Dr. G: D:
Marsh, Wm. A.
Marston, Geo. T.
ilsbry, El. A.
Roper, E. W.
Simpson, Chas. T.
Stearns, Dr. R. E. C.
Sterki, Dr. V.
Streator, Geo. J.
Teator, W.S
Walker, Bryant.
Williamson, Mrs. M. Burton.
Wright, Berlin H.
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14, 20, 35, 49, 46, 51, 61, 95, 106, 122
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29, 49, 64, 81
37, 69, 117, 128, 185.
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NOTES ON THE SOFT PARTS OF TROCHUS INFUNDIBULUM WATSON
With an account of a remarkable Sexual Modification of the
Epipodium, hitherto undescribed in Mollusca.
BY WM. H. DALL, CURATOR DEPT. OF MOLLUSKS, U. S. NAT. MUSEUM.
The presence of a verge, or intromittent male organ, has hitherto,
among the Rhiphidoglossate Mollusks, been recorded only in Ner-
itina (Claparédé) and certain Limpets. The organ as it exists in
Neritina and Nerita, is so short and obscure that its function and
even its existence has been called in question. When I showed its
existence in the rather anomalous Addisonia paradoxa and Cocculina
spinigera, curious deep-sea limpets, it was questioned whether they
were not peculiarly modified Tcenioglossa.
Since then, in several deep-sea Mollusks, such as Rimula, Margo-
rita and others indisputably belonging to the Rhiphidoglossa, I have
found a well-developed verge; and there is little doubt that the an-
cestors of this group, as well as of the Tvnioglossa, were so provided,
and that some of these deep-sea forms have retained the organ now
generally obsolete in their shallow water congeners. In combination
with this survival, one of the species, Trochus infundibulum Watson,
offers a singular and very interesting special modification of the an-
terior portion of the epipodium on the right side, which appears
worthy of particular attention.
The soft parts of this species afford several notes of interest. The
external parts, except the eyes, are white. The foot is wide, straight
and double-edged in front, and, as far as one can judge from speci-
mens contracted in alcohol, must have been somewhat pointed or
produced at its anterior corners in life. The sides of the foot are
nearly smooth, below the epipodial line.
The muzzle issmall and slender at its proximal end, enlarged and
transversely semi-lunar at its distal extremity. The oral surface of
the muzzle is smooth, the mouth very small; the oral disk is flat
and produced on each side into a thin linguiform lappet, with simple
and entire edge. These lappets are remarkably long, their ends
reaching as far as the ends of the true tentacles, and serve as tactile
organs, like the oral tentacles of the Lepetide, or the much smaller
lappets of Aem@a. When not feeding, or seeking food, these lappets
would seem to be applied to the sides of the foot below the epipodium.
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The oral disk is entire, but is slightly indented in the median line
below a furrow running up toward the mouth.
The cephalic tentacles are very stout and large, very elongate-
conical, with moderately pointed tips. They are situated above, and
not, as in most T’rochida, on each side of the muzzle. Their inner
bases are connate, and there is no intertentacular “ veil,” or any
tubercular traces thereof.
The eyes are large, strongly pigmented, ovoid, and sessile on the
outer bases of the tentacles, or perhaps I should say, just by the outer
bases. They are not pedunculate or elevated on pedicels in any of
the specimens examined, and I am quite confident that this is not
caused by the contraction due to alcohol, but is normal to the species.
The epipodial apparatus is complicated, and exhibits a certain
amount of variation between different individuals in the situation
and number of its processes. In the males, it is subjected to a re-
markable modification for sexual purposes. The epipodium begins
immediately behind the eye and a trifle below it. In the females it
is produced into a large broadly linguiform process, half as long as
the cephalic tentacles and fringed with close-set uniform small pointed
papillee or filaments. This process exists in the male on the left side.
The posterior margin then curves in toward the side of the foot; it
becomes quite narrow and shows two lateral tentacles of moderate
size; then a vacant space; then at the front edge of the operculum
two or three filaments, small, but larger than any in the vacant
space ; then another, but larger one; and finally another, which is
behind the middle of the operculum, and is the last on that side.
The epipodial line is continued to the end of the foot, the dorsal sur-
face above it, being transversely rugose and with a linear median
furrow. On the other (right) side we find a small, a large, two sub-
equal small, another large filament, followed by a slight gap and
then by a still larger tentacular process. The flap which corresponds
to the fringed process on the left side, is remarkably modified in
the male.
Behind, and close to the right eye, is a small tubular, longitudi-
nally striate, cylindrical verge, not exceeding (in alcohol) two mill-
imetres in length. Below it the epipodial flap is enormously pro-
duced, and its front edge is rolled backward upon itself, forming a
tube into the proximal opening of which the end of the verge may
project. The flap is rolled so that it makes nearly two layers, and
thus a very capable cylinder, which, when unrolled and released,
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will immediately coil itself up again. This cylinder is of subequal
diameter throughout, and is as long as, and somewhat stouter than,
the cephalic tentacles. Externally, near its base, it is nearly smooth ;
further out, it is spirally striate; near its extremity, it becomes
thicker and rather deeply externally grooved longitudinally, with
short, even, close-set, slightly spiral, grooves. The opening at the
distal end is fringed with short, equal papillee, each one corresponding
to the thickened interspace between two of the grooves. These raised
folds, or interspaces, are also finely transversely striate. At the
base of the cylinder, the epipodium extends backward to the first
lateral filament ; and the margin of this part is perfectly entire and
simple, showing neither fringe nor granulation. The object of this
apparatus is self-evident. The cylinder serves as a conduit for the
seminal fluid ejected from the verge. Whether it may be employed
in an actual copulation is doubtful ; it may merely serve to spread
the seminal matter over the eggs as they are deposited by the female.
IT am not aware that anything of this sort has been observed in any
other gastropod, up to the present time.
The edge of the mantle is smooth, entire, and slightly thickened.
Within the nuchal chamber the anus is visible on the right side.
The end of the intestine, for a considerable distance, is free from the
mantle and projects like a tentacle. The termination is slightly con-
stricted, then enlarged into a cup, or tr umpet-shaped ending, which
nearly reaches the mantle-edge.
The intestine itself, after leaving the stomach, is much corenphedeet:
but in the main, rises and is brought forward nearly to the mantle-
edge above the stomach; then turns back and is carried far into the
visceral coil before it is again brought forward and terminated as
above described. The food consists of Foraminifera.
The gill is free, except at its base, and consists of very elongate-
triangular foundation, from which depend triangular lamiellee,
without a raphe and wide at their bases. These grow larger prox-
imally.
The operculum is thin, polished, amber-colored, centrally de-
pressed, having a central projection, or nipple, on its under-side, and
consists of about four whorls.
The specimen affording the above notes has been identified with
Mr. Watson’s type specimen, and is now deposited with it in the
British Museum. It was dredged by the U.S. Fish Commission
east of Chesapeake Bay, in 1685 fathoms.
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CAST UP BY THE SEA.
BY E. W. ROPER, REVERE, MASS.
While cleaning up the trophies of a recent successful trip to the
beach, I wondered if my fellow shell collecters, who live near the sea-
Shore, appreciate the need of closely following up the storms. It is
not enough to go occasionally. The beach ought to be searched
every time a strong on-shore wind brings ina heavy surf. And the
visit ought to be made at the first low tide. Another flood tide with
change of wind may bury the most precious treasures under the
sand. I may go nineteen times to the three-mile beach near my
home, and get nothing new, although I should never come home
empty handed ; but on the twentieth visit a shell is found of a species
I have not before collected. Once it was a little red Margarita
undulata ; and again a Bela harpularia. Only the enthusiastic col-
lector knows the peculiar pleasure of such discoveries, and only the
collector experiences a pang at the sight of some rare shell hopelessly
broken, as I have many times seen the fragile Thracia conradi. The
latter and other bivalves live beyond low-water mark, very likely
so deep in the sand that a dredge would pass over them. But in a
heavy easterly gale the great breakers, pounding on the outer bar at
low tide, plow up their home, and rolling over and over, the helpless
shells are brought to shore by the incoming tide. It is noticeable
that seldom do two storms bring in a similar class of shells.
I remember one gale which literally strewed the beach with tens
of thousands of the “ little amethystine gems” which Totten called
Venus gemma. Another time the razor shells and the pretty Mach-
era costata will suffer, and again the prevailing species will be Lun-
atia, Buceinum and Fusus. Eight times, in as many years, I have
found the large Solemya borealis, twice alive. The little S. velwin ig
more common. Once I captured a living Pecten tenwicostatus of
large size. How violently he opened and shut his shell when placed
in a shallow pan of fresh water! But in spite of assiduous collecting
I can note less than seventy marine shells found in Revere. Doubt-
less collectors on more southern shores can find a greater variety.
GENUS MAKING.
BY CHAS. T. SIMPSON, TAGGART, MO.
Genus making is the fashion now-a-days with a certain school of
conchologists. Parties addicted to this work have access to good
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libraries and an extensive collection of shells, and their whole aim in
life seems to be making new genera. In some one of the older groups
a few species are found, having a certain peculiar pattern of seulp-
ture or coloring, or some little singularity in the fold of the col-
umella or hinge teeth, and presto, a genus is formed and the science
is burdened with another name!
These genus-makers never stop to see whether thisslight peculiarity
does not imperceptibly shade out into other species which are not
as marked; this is no business of theirs; the main point seems to be
the attaining of a sort of cheap reputation for scientific knuwledge.
According to Tryon’s Structural and Systematic Conchology, there
were, at the time of its publication in round numbers, about 6,000 of
these so-called genera, besides a great many synonyms, a number
which has been largely increased since that date. Even the old
genus Helix, without Nanina and Zonites, has some 200 of these
names, many of which have never been characterized. No doubt
our increasing knowledge and the good of the science has demanded
that some of these older genera should be divided. In days gone by
the name Pyrulaembraced a large proportion of the marine univalve
shells, having a short spire and lengthened canal, while Fusus in-
cluded about all with a similar canal and elevated spire. So Bue-
cinum was a miscellaneous group, characterized principally by a
notch at the base of the aperture. As now generally recognized,
Pyrula includes only pear-shaped shells of thin papyraceous structure,
Fusus a sort of spindle-shaped species, and Buccinum a small, well-
defined, perfectly natural group.
I am aware that those who favor this dismemberment of the older
genera claim that many of these groups are too large for studying
advantageously, and that the variation from the type of a genus is
very gradual through long series of species, to forms which are so
different from the type that no description will cover the whole, and
the very ambiguous description of Helix is quoted as an example of
this. Mr. Binney, in the Manual of American Land Shells, says:
“Tn common with all who have studied the Pfeifferian genus Helix,
I have long been convinced of the necessity of recognizing among its
species numerous distinct genera. * * * Before recognizing these
groups as distinct genera, I desire to wait until we can ascertain
whether generic characters can be found in the jaws and lingual
dentition, as well as in the shells. Convineed that characters cannot
be found in these organs, or in the genitalia, I adopted, in that work,
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(Terr. Moll., U.S.) the dismemberment of the genus so much de-
manded by the number of its species, founding the distinction on
the shell alone.”
Tt was as if the court had made up its mind beforehand, but had
waited for the evidence to establish the decision, and when the evi-
dence did not support it, the decree was rendered just as the court
had intended all along. Many of these so-called genera of Helix
have no value at all, and others so little as to be almost worthless
for purposes of classification. Our well-known Mesodon runs into
Triodopsis, and Arionta and Aglaia cannot always be separated.
Tryon at one time placed Helix devius, Gould, in the genus Mesodon,
and at another time he, as well as Mr. W.G. Binney, called it a
Triodopsis. Tryon put Arionta townsendiana, Lea, in the genus
Mesodon, and Mr. Binney regards Aglaia hillebrandi, Newe., as a
varietal form of Arionta mormonum. And I might give such illus-
trations to the end of the chapter, all of which go to show that even
among the savants these so-called genera are well nigh valueless.
But let us suppose that in any of the larger genera there is a chain
of species varying from the. type to those which are very unlike it;
that the variation is very gradual throughout the species. I cannot
see that dividing such a genus into a dozen, a hundred, or a thousand
genera is going to help the matter or give us any clearer insight into
the relationship of the species. I think that the classification should
be founded on nature, or in other words, that nature should do the
classifying, and that our efforts should be directed to deciphering the
Old Dame’s work. And if a distinction does not exist between cer-
tain so-called species and genera, it is useless to put it there, as it
will simply require that somebody in the future, when the truth is
reached, will have to throw it out.
The genus Unio, with its thousand species and endless variations,
has been divided into a number of sub-genera by the genus makers ;
but a Unio is a Unio for all that, and the merest nuvice in conchol-
ogy would recognize it as such in a moment; while probably not
one conchologist in a hundred could tell a Bariosta, Raf., from a
Hyridella, Swains. Dr. Isaac Lea showed his great knowledge of
this subject when he grouped them into mere divisions founded on
form and sculpture.
I think the time has come when a healthful reaction from this
fever of creating genera and species should set in. Such work simply
renders the science of conchology contemptible, and it is a veritable
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stumbling block to the ranks of the beginners. To these the science
should be rendered as simple and attractive as possible, and they
should rather be encouraged than discouraged by a formidable array
of names without meaning. No one but an expert, a closet natural-
ist, who sits in his snug alcove, surrounded by scientific books and
collections, and who devotes his entire time to the study, can keep
track of the names introduced by this mania, and I doubt if many
of these can do it.
The old landmarks of the noble science are going one by one, and
we should seek to fill the ranks from the young and enthusiastic,
from those who have a living to make, and cannot devote their whole
time to puzzling over a lot of names that even their authors did not
comprehend, and only inflicted upon the world for the sake of
gaining notoriety.
STRIZ.
Paludina sealaris, Jay. Apropos of Mr. Pilsbry’s interesting note
on this species, I would call attention to the fact, which does not
seem to be well understood, that Ameria has been shown in toto to
belong not to the Physide, where it was originally placed, but to the
Limnaeide. As there are rounded and earinate Planorbis, so there
are rounded and carinate Ameria. Whether Ameria is more or less
than a section of Planorbis is a qvestion, but it seems to me that the
high form of the shells is at least as well worthy of recognition by a
nameas Gyraulus, Helisoma, and other forms commonly so recog-
nized. Whether A. scalaris belongs to the Limnzinz or the Planor-
bine should be easy of determination since the form of the tentacl:s
would serve to decide this at a glance. Wm. H. Dall, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C.
Patula cooperi, in Colorado and Utah. This interesting species is
extremely common in parts of Colorada, and also, it would appear,
in the Wahsatch Mountains of Utah, where it is accompanied by
four others of the same group. It is decidedly variable and for
reference it may be useful to class the principal varieties as follows:
a. typica, the ordinary form in Colorado, with two distinct bands,
diameter 19 to 25 mill.; b. edevata, spire elevated, Utah (Hemphill)
and Colorado, a specimen found by Surface Creek, Delta Co., had
alt., 123, and diam. 16 mill; ¢. minor, very small, Utah (Hemphill);
d. confluens, bands confluent, shell therefore brown with a broad
white band above the periphery and a white umbilical region, Col-
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orado, by the Grand River, in Garfield Co., and by Plateau Creek,
in Mesa Co.; e. trifasciata, with three bands, one above the periphery
and two below, all distinct, the area between the first band and the
suture marbled with brown, Mam Mountains, Mesa Co., Colorado ;
f. alba, white with rough striz, Utah (Hemphill). Hemphill also
mentions a white variety of Patula strigosa, Gld., from Utah, which
may be called var. adba.
I have recently found Cochlicopa lubrica and Hyalina radiatula
near here. Also Limnea truncatula and two species of small
Pupe, which may be new. Theo. D. A. Cockerell, West Cliff, Col.
On the occurrence of Limosina in Texas. According to Prime,
the species of this group are “widely and abundantly distributed
through Central and South America and the West Indies,” to the
exclusion of the equally abundant species of Sphewrium peculiar to
the United States. Several years ago Mr. G. C. Heron sent me three
specimens of a Spherium from Cedar Creek, Hudson Co., Texas,
whose unusual shape and mottled epidermis at once struck me as
peculiar. On sending one of the specimens directly to Mr. H. A.
Pilsbry, of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, for iden-
tification, I was informed that he could not satisfactorily identify it
with any known species, but that it was nearer to L. cubense Prime,
than to anything else, although for the present the specific identity
of the specimen must remain uncertain. The occurrence of this
group, hitherto unknown to our fauna within the United States,
would seem to be a fact worthy of record. Bryant Walker, Detroit,
Mic.
H. (Fruticicola) similaris, Fer., Triodopsis appressa, Say, Sten-
ogyra decollata, L., in Bermuda. All three have been probably in-
troduced in the past 25 years. Duringa recent visit, I found the
first mentioned near the Government house in Hamilton. The
second species was shown me by Miss A. M. Peniston, of The Flatts,
who secured it from Mr. Bartram. It occurs near St. Georges.
The last species is so common it threatens to become injurious to the
crops there. It was introduced with some European plants, and
first made its appearance at Mt. Longdon. Stenogyra octona Chem.,
is also found upon the island, and is not mentioned by Bland. T. Hl.
Aldrich, Southern Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio.
In the Western American Scientist for April, p. 8, Mr. Berlin H.
Wright has described as new, under the name of Budimulus hemp-
hilli, the species figured by Binney (Manual N. A. Land Shells, fig.
440) as a variety of B. floridanus. The form in question should be
compared with B. marielinus Poey.
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NOTES ON THE GENUS CYPREA.
BY JOHN H. CAMPBELL.
Since the publication of the latest monograph on the genus
Cypraea—that by Mr. Roberts in Tryon’s Manual of Conchology—
four new species have been described, viz :—
Cyprea amphithales Melvill, South Africa.
Cyprea caput-draconis Melvill, Hong-Kong.
Cyprea Hungerfordii Sowerby, Hong-Kong.
Cyprea Rashleighana Melvill, hab. unknown.
Each of them has been described, apparently, from a single spec-
imen, and it is not at all certain but that two of Mr. Melvill’s species,
amphithales and caput-draconts may turn out to be mere varieties.
In Mr. Melvill’s “Survey of the genus Cyprzea,” reprinted in
pamphlet form in Manchester, England, last year, a large number
of new varieties of known species are described—some of them
founded upon mere color variations. Most of them seem to me un-
necessary additions to shell nomenclature. Tryon and Roberts
recognized 146 species of Cypreea proper and 40 species of Trivia—
making 186 species in the genus. Mr. Melvill, in his survey, differs
with them upon some points. He changes C. princeps, Gray, to C.
valeniia, Perry; C. undata, Lam., to C. dilueulum, Reeve; and C.
turdus, Lam., to C. ovata, Perry ; reduces from specific to varietal
rank, C. reticulata, Martyn; C. coxi, Brazier ; C. polita Roberts ;
©. semiplota, Mighels; C. cernica, Sowerby; C. coxeni, Cox; C.
sophie, Brazier; C. microdon, Gray; C. macula, Adams; and C.
fuscomaculata, Pease; and advances to specific rank the following
varieties: C. caput-anguis, Phil.; C. fabula, Kiener; C. coffea,
Sowerby ; C. menkeana, Deshayes; C. brevidentata, Sowerby; C.
bregeriana, Crosse; C. comptoni, Gray; C. depauperata, Sowerby ;
and C. seabriviscula, Gray.
I have lately received a fine specimen of C. ‘bregeriana, Crosse,
New Caledonia, from Mr. G. B.Sowerby, of London, who writes to me
that he is now of the opinion that it is a good species and not a ya-
riety of C. walkeri, Gray, as he thought it to be when he published
his monograph in the Thesaurus. Mr. Roberts also make it a
variety of C. walkeri. Weinkauff and Melvill give it specific rank,
as does also Mr. Richard C. Rossiter, of New Caledonia. I think it
, undoubtedly, a good species. The white specks are characteristic
and are not found in C. walkeri.
A. large series of specimens of C. cervus Linn. and C. exanthema
Linn., which I have in my collection, leads me to doubt whether
these two species are really distinct. No authentic localities outside
of Panama and vicinity, West Indies, Florida and Southeastern
United States are known in connection with either of them, and
they are found indiscriminately in the localities named. A beauti-
ful set of specimens of C. cervus, from the South Florida Keys, are
in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. I have spee-
is
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imens of both species from several localities in the West Indies, and
the characters described in the books do not hold good to separate
them. It is a pity that some naturalist has not examined the
animals.
It is also doubtful if C. ewusta Sowerby, and C. talpa, Linn, are
distinct. I have a specimen of the typical C. exusta from Mr.
Sowerby, and another which I received from Mr. Damon, of Wey-
mouth, England, seems to me to connect the two species. Weinkanff
may be right i in making C. exusta a variety of C. talpa.
The opinion held by some that C. decipiens Smith, was a dwarf
variety of C. thersites Gaskoin, has been definitely set at rest by Mr.
Sowerby receiving last summer, a number of fine specimens of C.
decipiens from Australia. I was fortunate enough to obtain one of
them—probably the first specimen that has reached America. It is
certainly a good species, and one of the most beautiful of all the
Cypreeas. The palm of beauty probably lies between it and C
aurantium Martyn. By the way, the fabulous prices given for the
last-named shell are things of the past. Instead of costing anywhere
from $50 to $100, a good specimen can be obtained for $15, and the
finest kind of one for $20 to $22. It is no longer a rare species, but
can readily be obtained from any of the prominent shell-dealers of
Europe.
Philadelphia, April 10, 1889.
THE SHELL-BEARING MOLLUSCA OF RHODE ISLAND.
BY HORACE F. CARPENTER.
Chaney Seen
SUB-ORDER INTEGRIPALLIATA.
Siphons short, not retractile ; pallial impression simple, without
sinus. This sub-order, contains fifteen families.
FAMILY CYRENIDE.
Shell regular, oval or sub-trigonal, covered with an epidermis ;
hinge with two or three teeth in each valve ; lateral teeth, two, simple
or striated ; ; ligament external ; pallial impression simple, or with a
short sinus.
This family has been made the special study of Mr. Temple Prime,
a lawyer of N. Y. City, who is authority on this subject. He pub-
lished, in 1865, a monograph of the species inhabiting the American
Continent, illustrated with figures and giving ali the synonyms,
localities and other items of interest concerning them. In 1871 he
published a catalogue of all the species in the world (of this family),
known to date. He divided it into six genera and three hundred
and twenty-two species, of which one hundred and eleven are Amer-
ican. There are now recognized seven genera and nearly four hun-
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dred species. Four genera are represented in America, three in the
U.S., and two in New E ngland.
Genus Spheriwm, Scopoli.
The genus Spheerium was characterized under its present name
by Scopoli in 1777. | It has borne some fourteen different names,
but has been better known to conchologists, especially in Europe,
by the name of Cyclas, given by Bruguiére i in 1792. Gray revived
the name of Sphierium in 1847, and Mr. Prime was the first in
America to recognize its claims. There are seventy-five species
distributed world-wide; they are found in rivers, ponds, lakes and
ditches, in fact, in all bodies of fresh water, but are more abundant
in species and in individuals in the northern parts of our country
than in any other section of the world. Four species inhabit Rhode
Island, and possibly more.
170.—Spherium partumeium Say.
I shall not attempt to give the synonymy of this, or any of the
species of this genus, or of the next to follow; it would be a weari-
some and a thankless task ; these shells are so little known, and the
animals inhabiting them have been so little studied that the synonymy
is but an entangled mass of errors. For the benefit of those who
might desire to ‘study deeper into the subject, and to post themselves
in regard to the views of authors who have written upon it, I would
refer them to Prime’s “Monograph of American Corbiculidze,”
published by the Smithsonian Institution, at Washington, D. C.,
1865.
Spheerium partumeium was first described by Say in Journ. Acad.
Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, ii, 380, 1822, under the name of. Cyclas
partumeia. It is distributed all over the U. S., east of the Rocky
Mountains, and its habitat is in stagnant pools and muddy ponds.
The animal is of a delicate pink, and the syphonal tubes of the same
color. ‘The shell is rounded-oval, thin, fragile and pellucid ; nearly
equilateral; beaks central, calyculate approximate at the apex ;
epidermis glossy, light greenish or bluish in color ; interior of valves
light blue; hinge margin nearly straight, curving gradually into
the anterior margin, but curving behind, so as to form an obtuse
angle, causing the posterior side to appear broader; cardinal teeth
strong; lateral teeth much elongated. The young shells are more
compressed than the adult, and are of a light yellow color. Length
of shell, 9-20, height, 2-5, breadth, 4-15 of an inch.
(To be continued.)
Numerous publications received will be noticed in our next
number.
fee N Boris.
VOL. It. JULY, 1889. No. 8.
NOTE ON TWO HELICES NEW TO THE FAUNA OF THE UNITED STATES.
BY W. H. DALL.
{SOME time since, among some shells from Southeastern Florida,
received from Mr. G. W. Webster, two small Helices were
noticed which a careful comparison with known U.S. forms failed to
identify. By the kind intervention of Mr. H. A. Pilsbry, they
were determined to be H. (Microconus) ceca Guppy, described from
Trinidad, and H. (.M.) granwm Strebel, previously known from Mex-
ico. This induced me to overhaul the small species in our collection
to see if these forms had by any chance crept in under other names.
The result was, that I found H. granum, which had hurriedly been
referred to Guppyia Gundlachi, and H. ceca which had been left
unnamed probably as the young of something else.
The localities now known in Florida for the above species are as
follows :
Hi. ceca. St. Augustine. (C. H. Johnson.) Near St. John’s
River and near Lake Worth in East Florida, and near the Hills-
borough River, emptying into Tampa Bay, West Florida (Mr. G.
W. Webster). Mr. Webster identified this species as H. diosoricola
C. B. Adams, described from Jamaica, and it is very probable that
it is at most a slightly larger variety of it, in which case Adams’ is
the oldest name.
H. granum. Archer, Alachua Co., Fla. (Dall.) ; Evans’ planta-
tion, Rogers River (C. T. Simpson); vicinity of Lake Worth
{G. W. Webster). When perfect this species is nearly the size of
I. labyrinthica, very thin, reddish-brown, with very deep sutures
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and a rather small, deep, tubular umbilicus. It is covered with
beautiful oblique epidermal elevated ridges, which are easily lost,
and do not agree with the lines of growth. The H. ceca is much
smaller, olive-greenish, with a silky lustre and few inflated whorls
the first of which is usually finely punctate.
The suture is very deep and the umbilicus proportionally larger
than in H. granum.
ON A SINGULAR CASE OF IMITATION IN OSTREA VIRGINICA.
BY CHAS. T. SIMPSON.
I have before me a shell of Cerithium atratum about 18"™ im
length, which has attached to it and growing on the side of its spire
a young Ostrea virginica about 10" in length, and 6™™ in width.
There is nothing at all surprising in the fact that a young oyster
should so attach itself to a Cerithium or any other shell, but it is
surprising that the oyster should attempt to pass itself off for a part
of the shell on which it grew. For, strangely enough, the upper valve
of the oyster is sculptured exactly like the surface of the Cerithium.
Each revolving ridge and nodule is repeated on the bivalve exactly
as it is found on the spire of the shell on which it grows, just as
perfect and distinct in every respect; the only difference being that
they are not quite so strongly elevated as they are on the Cerithium.
Nor is this all. Not only is the sculpture repeated on the valve
of the oyster, but the coloring of the Cerithium is carried over upon
it; it being a yellowish-white throughout, covered with brown flecks
and spots. When I first examined the shell I supposed that its
spire had been injured, and that it had repaired it with an awkward
patch ; but only after the closest scrutiny did I discover the truth.
Two other very small oysters had attached themselves to other parts
of the shell, but as their upper valves were missing at the time
I first examined it, I could not tell whether they had been similarly
marked or not.
It isno uncommon thing for shells which attach themselves to
others, to imitate those on which they grow; though I have never
seen quite so remarkable a case as this. The shells of Anomia
glabra and sometimes Crepidula fornicata, when growing on the
Pecten imitate them by being ribbed, and Crepidula plana has
often the texture of the interior-or exterior of the shells on which it
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grows, and sometimes Crepidula convexa which I found quite
abundantly on Modulus floridanus, has the color and something of
the corrugation of that shell, so that at first glance it appears tu be
merely a patch.
What is the object of this singular species of imitation? I believe
without exception it is a means of protection against the rapacity of
boring molluses ; one of the tricks which nature is constantly exhibit-
ing by which the “survival of the fittest” is attained. The shells of
the young oyster on the Cerithium, the Crepidula convexa on the
Modulus, the Anomias and Crepidulas on the Pectens, were in every
case thinner than those on which they grew, hence more liable to be
pierced by carniverous molluscs—but by imitating the shells on
which they lived they stood a better chance of deceiving their ene-
mies, a better chance of self-preservation. Does this not look
almost like intelligence, almost akin to what we call thought in man
—like reason ; like studying from cause to effect ? and I believe that
such variation as this is often perhaps one of the first steps towards
the formation of a new variety, a variation which if continued by
circumstances fixes certain characters that define a species, and
that these characters remain permanently—often after the causes
which produced them have passed away.
LIST OF SHELLS OF THE NEW JERSEY COAST SOUTH OF
BRIGANTINE ISLAND.
BY JOHN FORD.
Ep. Navtiuvus, Dear Sir:
As a list of the species of Mollusks found on the coast of
New Jersey, South of Brigantine Island, may be of interest to your
readers, I take the liberty of sending it.
If any others can be added it would be a pleasure to hear
of them.
Yours truly,
JoHN Forp.
Phila. June 15th, 1889.
Anomia ephippium, Linn.
Arca pexata, Say.
Arca ponderosa, Say. ( Fossil.)
Arca transversa, Say
19 6)
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Astarte castanea, Say.
Crepidula conyexa, Say.
Crepidula fornicata, Linn.
Crepidula glauca, Say.
Crepidula plana, Say.
Columbella avara, Say.
Columbella lunata, Say.
Cytherea convexa, Say.
Donax fossor, Say.
Eupleura caudata, Say.
Fissurella alternata, Say.
Fulgur canaliculata, Say.
Fulgur carica, Gmel.
Fulgur perversum, Linn. (Dead.)
Littorina irrorata, Say.
Littorina littorea, Linn. ( Dead.)
Littorina palliata, Say.
Lucina dentata, Wood.
Modiola plicatula, Lam.
Modiola tulipa, Lam. (Anglesea.)
Mactra solidissima, Chemn.
Martesia cuneiformis, Say.
Melampus bidentatus, Say.
Mya arenaria, Linn.
Mytilus edulis, Linn.
Nassa obsoleta, Say.
Nassa trivittata, Say.
Natica duplicata, Say.
Natica heros, Say.
Natica triseriata Say. (young of N. heros.)
Ostrea borealis, Lam.
Ostrea virginica, Lister.
Pandora gouldiana, Dall.
Pecten irradians, Lam.
Petricola pholadiformis, Lam.
Pholas crispata, Say.
Pholas costata, Linn.
Pholas truncata, Say.
Raeta canaliculata, Say.
Solecurtus costatus, Say.
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Siliquaria gibba, Adams.
Solen ensis, Linn.
Tellina polita, Say.
Tellina tenera, Say.
Teredo navalis, Linn.
Urosalpinx cinerea, Say.
Venus mercenaria, Linn.
Venus mercenaria var. notata. Say.
Additional species found by other observers.
Anomia aculeata, Gmel.
Anomia electrica, Gld.
Bela harpularia, Couth.
Fasciolaria granosa, Brug.
Fusus tornatus, Gld.
Littorina rudis, Don.
Mactra lateralis, Say.
Macoma fusca, Say.
Mytilus hamatus, Say.
Scalaria angulata, Say.
Scalaria lineata, Say.
Sigaretus perspectivus, Say.
Solen viridis, Say.
Yoldia limatula, Say.
A MAMMOTH LAND SNAIL.
In the West American Scientist for April, 1889, under the head of
“ A New Florida Bulimulus,” follows the description of an alleged
species of the group above named the dimensions of which are given
as “length, 19 inches, diameter § inches.” I don’t believe that my
esteemed friend Hemphill ever collected a land animal of the
molluscan type quite as large as this. I wish that he had and Iam
sure if a beast of this size exists anywhere on the planet, it should
when found be named for him, for I know of no man more worthy
of such an honor. Let us return to the big Bulimus and consider
its dimensions and what these figures mean:
Bulimus ovatus of Muller, a Brazilian species “attains the length
of six inches and is sold in the markets of Rio.” It has an egg an
inch in length when hatched, say the size of a robin’s egg. With
this for a standard, the nineteen inch fellow from Florida may be
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expected under favorable circumstances and when not otherwise
occupied to furnish eggs three inches and upward in length and
of corresponding diameter, This looks like business, and here also
is a hint in the way of a new industry. I was at one time slightly
acquainted, with an old man, an alleged conchologist from the sunny
land of France, of whom it was stated with much probability of
truth, that he cooked common cowries in acid and bedeviled them
in various ways, in the effort and hope to produce the beautiful
Cypreea aurantia by an artificial process. His experiments were
inspired not by scientific zeal but the lust of mammon. He did
not succeed. His experiments rested on an imperfect ethical basis.
But with the big bulimus as above, provided one could get enough
to start the business and stock a small eochlearia or snail ranch, the
business would be interesting scientifically and commercially and in
no way contra bona mores. The proportions of the dividends com-
pared to the profits of other kinds of business, might not be quite
as large as the proportions of the big Bulimulus compared with the
rest of his relatives.
But alas there are many incongruities and paradoxes in this
world, and with this melancholy fact before us let us rest and find
consolation, while dreaming of omelets and custards made of
Bulimus eggs; and let us also in kindness overlook the infelicities of
typographic errors and lapses of proof-readers.
R. B. Gas:
ON THE GENUS COROLLA DALL.
BY W. He DATE:
In 1871 I was suddenly called from my studies at the Smithso-
nian Institution to take charge of an expedition for a reconnaissance
survey of the Aleutian Islands, under the auspices of the U. S.
Coast Survey. The molluscan material collected by me in the
Nothern Pacific from 1865-68 had been the object of much care and
scrutiny. The types of all doubtful or supposed new species had
been sent to Dr. P. P. Carpenter, then recognized as the chief expert
on the shells of the N. W. Coast. He had held them without report
for two years, but under the circumstances it was not possible to
delay longer. They were hastily recalled, and that nearly four years
of hardship and exploration might not seem entirely fruitless, the
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most obviously new or interesting forms were made the subjects of
brief diagnoses which were gathered into a paper for the American
Journal of Conchology. This preliminary paper included a brief
diagnosis of a remarkable Pteropod, of which the types are still extant
in the National Museum, which was described (op. cit. vol. 7, pp.
137-8), under the name of Corolla spectabilis n. g. and sp., and sup-
posed to have no shell. These animals caught in the N. Pacific, Lat.
42°50’, W. Lon. 147°25’, in the tow-net, were preserved alive for
three days and carefully drawn to seale in water colors before being
‘consigned to spirits for preservation. As they seemed lively and
perfect the conclusion was natural that they were normally shelless.
Subsequently, on my return to civilization in 1875, after much study
I became convinced that these animals were more related to Tied-
mannia but had lost their shell. The latter is gelatinous, slipper-
shaped, and covered with small tubercles weighing several times as
much as the animal, which is very slightly attached to it and is
therefore detached with great facility. The genus G/eba Forskal was
similarly described from a detached animal.
In his report on the Pteropoda of the Challenger Expedition, Dr.
Paul Pelseneer received from me copies of all my unpublished
sketches and specimens of several of the species, though not of Corolla
spectabilis as the jar containing the latter was temporarily inaccess-
ible. A brief description of the shell was also sent. In his report on
the Challenger Pteropods he combines with my sketch and diagnosis
certain defective fragments collected by the Challenger party which
appeared to him to belong to the genus Gleba, to which he accord-
ingly referred C. spectabilis; the name Corolla naturally becoming
in this way a synonym of Gleba.
But the “shell” of Gleba is of a totally different character from
that of Corolla. It is almost flat, shallow and not slipper-shaped.
The detached “shells” which I took in the tow-net about the time I
collected the types of Corolla do not resemble Gileba, but are nearly
identical with those possessed by Cymbulia calceola Verrill, an
analogous Atlantic species. The reception, from the Fish Commis-
sion, of specimens of C. calceola and of specimens of Corolla specta-
bilis, with the shell, from the Santa Barbara Channel, California,
leave no doubt of this. The soft parts of these two species also
differ materially from those of Gleba, and ©. calceola has therefore
been made by Dr. Pelseneer the type of a new group which he has
named Cymbuliopsis (Challenger Pteropods, Thecosomata p. 100, fig.
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2.1887), which also includes C. vataQ. & G. With the identificatiom
of the true shell of Corolla, this name becomes unnecessary, and
Corolla resumes the generic rank I assigned to it, with the addition
of a second species, Corolla calceola Verrill (sp.) from the eastern
coast of United States ; Cymbuliopsis becoming in its turn asynonym.
The details of structure I hope to publish later with illustrations;
the object of this note is merely the rectification of the synonymy.
In a general way I should be indisposed to claim priority for a name
which was imperfectly characterized in publication, but Dr. Pelseneer
has set the example by adopting Gleba, which stands in exactly the
same predicament and as it is really the best plan (except in very
glaring cases) to take the first identifiable name, I follow his exam-
ple.
THE SHELL-BEARING MOLLUSCA OF RHODE ISLAND.
BY HORACE F. CARPENTER.
175.—Spherium suleatum Lam., 1818.
This, the largest species of the genus in America, is widely dis—
tributed throughout New England, and the Middle and Western
States and Canada, and inhabits rivers and large ponds. It presents
much variation in size and color. It has been known best-in this
country by the name of Cyclas similis Say, but Lamarck’s name
has priority. The animal is white with light orange siphons. The
shell is transversely oval, nearly equilateral, very light for its size ;
valyes convex, broad across the beaks, which are but slightly
elevated above the general curve of the shell; interior bluish; ex-
terior dark chestnut ; surface concentrically wrinkled with strongly-
raised lines, with a broader band corresponding to each year’s
growth. Length, 34, heighth, 2, breadth, 3, inch. The young shells.
do not resemble the adults, and might well be mistaken for another
species; they are thin and compressed, with both ends truncated and
resemble rhomboideum ; in fact most of the specimens in cabinets.
labeled rhomboideum are simply the young shells of suleatum.
The color of the young shells is lemon-yellow, but as they grow
older a dark shade appears at the beaks and gradually spreads.
downwards until it covers the entire surface. In intermediate stages.
there is a yellow zone on the lower margin. They are found in R.
he
es)
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I. in the Ten Mile River, and are very abundant in the Black-
stone.
Genus Pisidium, Pfeiffer, 1821.
This genus was confounded by earlier writers with Tellina (a ma-
rine genus) and still later with Sphaerium. Pfeiffer first observed the
difference in both animal and shell and proposed the name of
Pisidium for this group.
The animal of Sphaerium has the lobes of the mantle united pos-
teriorly, into a tube, single at the base, but separated into two
siphons at the extremities, while in Pisidium it is united its entire
length.
The shells of Sphaerium have the beaks central, dividing the
hinge margin into equal parts, and the cardinal teeth are situated
immediately under the beaks; in Pisidium the beaks are terminal,
i. é., nearer the posterior extremity; the cardinal teeth also are
terminal and the ligament is on the shorter side. The teeth of
Pisidium are stronger and more robust in proportion to the size of
the shell than in Sphaerium. The habits of the animals are the
same, burrowing in mud or attached to the roots and stems of aquatic
plants. The best time to collect these shells is from April to July.
There are eight species in New England, three of which have
been found in R. I.
174.— Pisidium abditum, Haldeman.
Shell rounded-oval, elongated, margins well rounded; beaks
small, raised a little above the curve of the shell; surface smooth,
not distinctly striated ; epidermis generally straw color, but some-
times dark and the surface rough and coarsely striated ; cardinal
teeth small, separate ; the anterior one larger and prominent ; lateral
teeth short. Length, yoo, height, os, breadth, rio, inch. Inhabits
nearly all of North America, is very common and is found in
swamps and on the margins of small streams.
P. aequilaterale, compressum, ferrugineum, and ventricosum are
species which occur in Maine, Massachusetts and New York, but
have never been found in R. I. They are widely distributed over
other parts of the country and may possibly inhabit R. L., although
not yet observed. P. abditum was described by Haldeman in Proc.
Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. i, 55, 1841, and has twenty-five synonymous.
names.
(To be continued.)
34 THE NAUTILUS.
BRIEF NOTES ON THE LAND AND FRESH-WATER SHELLS OF MERCER
COUNTY, ILL.
BY WILLIAM A. MARSH.
Sub-genus Planorbula, Haldeman.
101.—Segmentina armigera, Say.
Shell varied in color, from very dark horn color to almost white,
spire regular, slightly concave, suture well impressed, whorls four,
longer than wide, carinated above, aperture oblique, labrum
usually of a darker color on the edge. Within the aperture are five
teeth, two on the pillar lip, one near the anterior lip, one on the side
of the labrum, and two on the upper portion of the outer lip. This
interesting shell has a range from Maine to Colorado. It is rather
common here about our small ponds, being usually found associated
with P. exacutus and P.parvus. It may be found adhering to sticks,
bark and pieces of pine boards where the water is very shallow.
ANCYLUS Geoffrey, 1767.
102.—Aneylus rivularis, Say.
Shell pale yellow, opaque conic, depressed ; apex obtuse, nearer to
and leaning towards one side and one end; aperture oval, rather
narrower at one end, entire. This shell is very abundant along the
margin of the Mississippi River; found adhering to the limestone
rock in the river, also on limbs of trees, dead leaves and old valves
of Uniones. I have one valve of a Unio ellipsis in my cabinet that
had 25 of the Ancylus on it.
103.
Ancylus parallelus, Haldeman.
Shell pale, thin, fragile, lengthened, narrow, apex rather short,
sharp, conspicuous, with two-fifths of the shell posterior to it. Inhabits
Pope Creek, in this county; has never been found elsewhere.
When found at all it occurs very abundantly, adhering to sticks,
stones and dried leaves. I have found it attached to live specimens
of Pleurocera subulare.
104.—Ancylus tardus, Say.
Shell conic, depressed, apex behind the middle, obtuse, rounded,
inclining backward, line from the apex to the posterior tip rectilin-
ear; line from the apex to the anterior tip arcuated ; aperture oval.
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I found this shell in a small slough near Edwards Creek, in Green
Township, adhering to flat limestone rocks. I have never found it
in any other locality. It is probably very rare here.
GENERAL NOTES.
On Hexix (Artonta) KELLETI Fps.—Twenty years ago, Dr.
J. G. Cooper, writing of the west coast helices, mentioned the find-
ing of Arionta Kellettii Fbs., upon the seaward side of Point Loma,
at the entrance of San Diego bay. He remarked upon the great
number of dead shells and the scarcity of the living, from which it
was inferred that they were dying out. The same state of affairs
exists to day. The steep hillside is thickly strewed with dead shells
of the form of Arionta Kellettii, now generally known as A. Stearn-
siana, while living specimens are hard to find. The dead shells are
in all stages, from fresh and bright to chalky and broken, showing
that a comparatively small number of individuals are living at one
time, yet enough survive to keep the race intact—E. W. ROPER.
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR A SYSTEMATIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE AQUATIC
SHELLS OF TAsMANIA, by W. F. Petterd. In this valuable paper
Mr. Petterd has revised the fresh-water shells of Tasmania, giving
especial attention to the minute Paludinoid forms, which in Tasmania
as everywhere have been very imperfectly understood. Most of
them belong to the genus Potamopyrgus of Stimpson, a group in-
cluding also all of the New Zealand non-marine Rissoids. The new
subgenus Beddomeia (name preoccupied by Nevill, Handl. Moll. Ind.
Mus. i, p. 127) is proposed for Amnicola launcestonensis Johnson, and
other species, and Brazieria for the Ampullaria tasmanica Tenison-
Woods. 4:
(Two of these have a white rib, an thus fall also under
bimarginata Picard.)
(5.) libellula 1233(45) Chem. : ie
(6.) libellula 123X45 Ckll. (X is a mere ae, re is
very broad)
(7.) libellula 125X(45) var. nov.
(8.) libellula 123,(45) var. nov.
(9.) libellula 123,555 var. nov.
(10.) libellula 12,.(45) var. nov.
(11.) libellula 0,.545 var. nov. : :
(12.) libellula 123(45) = reaumuria Mog. (Some
shows the least sign of a band between
2and 3) . : pels
(13.) libellula 10345 = argentvillea Mon. (2 are also
bimarginata) . : - : neal
(14.) libellula 12(345) Kreglinger : 1
(15.) libellula (12)3(45) = poirctia Mog. . GP
(16.) libellula 1233,45 var.nov. . : ; fale
1
1
a ee ee LO
(17.) libellula 1,,345 var. nov. ;
(18.) libellula 10045 Kreg]. = Sionnestia Tea ;
(19.) libellula 12,45 v. nov. . : : ; 1
(This is new only in the sense of being Ponce I have
seen it with a pink ground-color (rubella) from Truro, Cornwall,
England, collected by Mr. J. H. James.)
(20.) libellula 00345 = listeria Mogq. , : aes
(21.) libellula ,0345 Ckll. : : : : bi Drs
(22.) libellula 12045 = favannea Mog... . 2 Be
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(23.) libellula 2345 Ckll. : : : : co ae
(24.) Libellula 00300 = cavieria Mog. ; ‘ . LC yjans)
(25.) libellula 003(45) = gmelina Mog. (also bimar-
ginata) . : : PA
(26.) libellula 1(23)45 = odin Moa. : : 7 a8
(In this specimen bands 4 and 5 are very thick; the yellow
line between 3 and 4 is very thin.)
(27.) rubella 003X00 var. nov. : : : . Gum
(28.) rubella 12345 Mog. . i 2 3 . 2. (one juv.)
(29.) rubella 00300 == quettardia Mog. ‘ E . 1.(pale.)
(30.) rubella 00000 = rubella Mogq. : : alas
(31.) rubella 00305 Ckll. : : 1
(32.) petiveria 12345 = brissonia Mogq. 5.
(33.) petiveria 123(45) = arcelinia Locard. (one hae
band 2 very broad) 3. (one juy.)
peas
(S4.) petiveria 1(25);(45) v. nov. . (juv.)
All the above varieties have been found in Europe except Nos.
7 to 11, 16, 17, 27 and 34. The tendency of bands 4 and 5 to
coalesce is notable in the series, but this is a frequent form of
variation. The formula 00300, generally common in Europe,
seems rare. But the most remarkable thing about the series is the
splitting up of the bands in many specimens, forming combinations
which I have never seen in European examples. This is perhaps
to be regarded as the reverse of melanism, and due to dryness (I do
not know the degree of moisture at Lexington), and it is well to
remember that H. pisana, which frequents exceedingly dry places
(sand hills, ete.), shows this splitting-up of the bands to excess.
These new varieties are very diverse, and as yet few in number of
specimens in the colony, which tends to show that they are of recent
origin. If, as I believe, they are the direct result of the new
environment, in a few years we shall see them predominate at
Lexington, and probably more pronounced in their characters, not
showing so many ill-developed bands. Here is a problem for the
future !
Since I wrote last about this species, Prof. Morrison has sent me
the following additional varieties from Lexington, Va., new to the
North American Fauna:
(1.) libellula 1,545 Roebuck. (juv.)
(2.) libellula 10,45 Ckll.
(3.) Abellula 12;(45) v. nov. ( juv.)
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(4.) libellula ,0045 v. nov. (two specimens.)
(5.) libellula 12,345 v. nov.
(6.) libellula 12X345 v. nov. ( juv.)
(7.) libellula 123,45 v. nov.
(8.) libellula 10300 v. nov., but also British. (juv.)
(9.) libellula (123)(45) = gronovia Moq. In Europe, this variety
is found in France, England, and Wales, and the Rev. A.
Dean recently sent me examples of it from the Tyrol, and
from the Pyrenees..
(10.) Mibellula 1(23)(45) = brardia Moq. (juv.)
(11.) libellula 1(28,),(45) v. nov. (juv.)
(12.) libellula 123,45 v. nov. (juv.)
(13.) libellula 000,..00 v. nov.
(14.) libellula 12;,.,45 v. nov. (juv.)
(15.) hbellula 12,3(45) v. nov. (juv.)
(16.) libellula (12)345 Mog. (juv.)
(17.) libellula (12)X3(45) v. nov.
(18.) libellula 120,45 v. nov.
(19.) libellula 1,,3(X4)5; v. nov. (juv.)
(20.) libellula 12(34)5 Kregl. (juv.)
(21.) libellula 02345 = Schreteria Mogq.
(22.) libellula 1030,(,5) v. nov. (juv.)
(23.) petiveria 12,45 Ck.
(24.) petiveria 1,545 Roebuck.
(25.) petiveria ,,345 Fenn.
(26.) petiveria 12045 = Michaudia Loe.
(27.) petiveria 123445 Borcherding, = var. sexfasciata Moq.
This remarkably variable series only emphasises the peculiarities
of the previous one. There is very little variation in the ground-
color of the shells.
West Cliff, Colo., Sept. 29, 1889.
COLLECTING LAND SHELLS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
BY EDWARD W. ROPER.
“Took where you step” is a good rule to follow in any country,
but it is absolutely essential in San Diego county, for two reasons.
First, because it is very important, if there is a rattlesnake in your
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path, to see him before treading upon him. Secondly, because if
you carelessly step on the little round cactus so common in this
region, the spines, if they do not puncture the sole of your shoe, will
penetrate the upper leather more surely than needles. In the eyes
of an eastern collector, accustomed to look for land shells in moist,
shady places, it is not a promising country. There are no woods,
except on the mountains, and few streams of water around whose
banks mollusks might be expected. Yet there are shells all around.
Find a cactus that is dead, and turn over its fallen leaves with a
stout stick. Like the watermelon, a cactus seems to carry its own
water, and under this moist, decaying mass the little Pupas may be
found, and Helix Stearnsiana Gabb takes shelter fromthe sun. The
night dews are heavy, and doubtless when darkness falls, the snails
emerge from their hiding places, and browse around for food.
Another favorite collecting ground is a pile of loose rocks; if on
the south side of a hill, where the sun beats hottest, so much the
better. Turn over every stone until the damp earth is reached, and
your eyes will be gladdened by the sight of the elegant dark brown
shiny Glyptostoma Newberryana W.G. B. If the rocks are in the
midst of shrubbery and herbage, the large beautifully banded Arianta
tudiculata Binn. is likely to be found. Very rarely do any of these
shells live on the shaded northern slopes, doubtless because where the
ground is less heated during the day, less moisture is condensed at
night. In this country, then, the collector truly earns his prizes by
the sweat of his brow.
One other land shell is the Succinea Oregonensis Lea, of a red-
dish golden hue, found on the weedy river banks, and living only a
little less in the water than its frequent companions Limnza
Adeline Tryon, and Physa Gabbii Tryon. These are the common
shells of the open country, although far from numerous in individuals,
when one considers the hours of diligent labor necessary to procure
a reasonable number.
WHAT IS A SPECIES?
BY CHARLES T. SIMPSON.
In view of the practice of naming everything now-a-days by the
so-called new school of conchologists, we may well ask the above
question. Agassiz in classifiying animal life says, that “species are
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distinguished by size, proportion, color, habits, and relations to sur-
rounding objects and circumstances.” Like many things which we
understand very well, the word is difficult to define. It is almost
impossible to say just what differences are required to constitute a
species or a variety. Perhaps so far as the study of conchology is
concerned this definition will answer: A mollusk which differs from
all allied forms by certain distinct constant characters is entitled to
specific rank. Asa friend remarked to me: “It is not so necessary
that the differences between species be great as that they are con-
stant.” Any character or characters of real value that are always
present on a shell ought to entitle it toa name; while no matter how
marked they may be in individuals, if they imperceptibly fade into
those belonging to what have been considered to be other species,
they are worthless for purposes of classification. The merest novice
who has given any attention to the subject, either collecting or
examining cabinets of shells, knows something of how individuals of
a species vary. This variation is very often produced by the cir-
cumstances by which a mollusk is surrounded,—locality, depth and
condition of water, different kinds of soil and bottom, height of
elevation on mountain sides, climate and the like. Baron von
Tiesenhausen states that Helix cingulata, a smooth shell, is found in
the valleys of Austria, H. cingulata var. colubrina, a little mottled
and sometimes slightly ribbed, about half way up the mountains, and
H. gobanzi, which is only perhaps a strongly ribbed form of
cingulata, lives near their summits. Fasciolaria tulipa, when found
in quiet muddy bays is a coarse shell with strongly-marked revolving
ridges, of a dirty brownish or ash color and scarcely variegated at
all ; and is in every way inferior to the much larger, finely developed,
smooth and handsomely variegated specimens taken in the open
sea. Natica duplicata, from the vicinity of New England, is a coarse
shell often flushed with brown or brownish-yellow, while specimens
from the open water in the Gulf of Mexico are smooth and polished,
livid in color, or even almost white. The same shell, though, when
found in brackish water on the Florida coast, is more like the New
England form, but is never brownish in color that I have seen.
Cyrena floridana is a most variable shell even when a number are
taken from the same bed; so much so that Conrad who just named
it, subsequently gave to other very different specimens the appellation
of C. protexta. In color it ranges from a dark purplish crimson,
through purple and pink to white, and individuals may be found of
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almost every tint of blue; and in form it may be oval, the posterior
end may be truncated as in Unio elegans, or it may be so drawn out
as to be scarcely distinguishable when small, from Venus flexuosus.
Were there no connecting links I could make a half dozen good
species from the shells in my collection. Some specimens have an
epidermis almost as rough as its congener C. carolinensis, while in
others it is almost totally lacking. In all the species I have cited
there are connecting links which show that these variations are
merely forms of one and the same thing.
In view of these facts and numberless others which could be given
of the extensive variability of species, and measured by such a
definition as I have given of the word, how ridiculous is the practice
of naming every possible variation and form, now so much in vogue
with the new school of conchologists; a practice which, I am sorry
to say, is not confined to them alone, nor to the present time. M.
Bourguignat, who may be fairly considered a representative of this
school, says he knows 162 species of Helix of the group Pomatia, and
that of these he possesses 151. And he classifies them into two grand
sections and nineteen series! One feels like using the language of the
happy father who, when the nurse presented him with triplets, the
results of a single birth, exclaimed in utter astonishment, “ Great
Scott! did any get away?” Why don’t they name and describe
every individual shell and be done with it? This would certainly
be one way out of the dilemma.
(To be continued.)
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF OCINEBRA.
BY F. C. BAKER.
Ocinebra jenksii Baker.
Shell fusiform, thick, ash-colored, shouldered on the whorls; whorls
72, two apical smooth, rounded, white; the second is but little larger
than the first; the third is provided with a distinct carina about
midway of the whorl; the rest are strongly shouldered and angular.
There are on each whorl nine to ten longitudinal ribs, crossed by
ten very strong, coarse lirve, whieh cut the surface of the shell into
coarse reticulations. The spire is high, pointed, and occupies about
half the length of the entire shell. Aperture oblong-ovate, choco-
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late-colored, and ending below in a short, open canal. Outer lip
thickened, arcuate, and five-dentate within. Inner lip smooth,
covering the columella. Canal open, short, and a little deflected to
the left. Umbilical region closed by the extending columellar
callous.
Alt. 17, diam. 10 mill. Aperture alt. 7 (excluding canal), diam.
4 mill.
This is a distinct little shell and not referable to any species with
which I am acquainted. Its nearest ally appears to be Ocinebra
circumtexta Stearns, from which it is separated by its more pointed
elongated spire, and absence of the two brown bands. ‘The ribs in
circumtexta are not so well developed, and the spiral lirze are not
so coarse. There are seventeen spirial lire upon circumtexta,
whilst upon jenksii there are but ten. The greatest difference,
however, is in the embryonic whorls, which in circumtexta are dis-
tinetly bicarinate, while in jenksii they are rounded. It bears some
superficial resemblance to Ocinebra gracillima Stearns, but is sep-
arated from that species by its more angular form. The ribs, too,
are more numerous in gracil/ima, and the canal is closed. The
embryonic apex in gracillima is corrugated whilst that of jenksii is
smooth. It is separated from Ocinebra michaeli Ford, by its much
shorter canal, more rotund form, and thickened lip.
I have seen but four specimens of this species, obtained from the
Wagener Collection at the Wagner Free Institute of Science, and as
they show little or no variation, I am led to believe the characters
are quite constant.
I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. C. W. Johnson, assistant
curator, Wagner Free Institute of Science, for the privilege of
studying and describing the species. The types are now deposited
in the Wagner Collection. The habitat is unknown.
I take great pleasure in naming this interesting little species in
honor of Prof. J. W. P. Jenks, Curator-in-Charge of the Museum
at Brown University, Providence, R. I.
HELIX (STENOTREMA) HIRSUTA SAY, ON THE WEST COAST.
Of this form Mr. W. G. Binney remarks in his “ Manual of
American Land Shells,” page 279, “a postpliocene species now found
over the Northern and Interior regions as far as Kansas and Vir-
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ginia, and even into Alabama.” Mr. Pilsbry in his recent Check-
List of N. A. Land Shells credits it to the “ Eastern United States.”
The collection in the National Museum shows that it has a much
wider distribution. Upon examining certain shells collected by Dr.
Edward Palmer [ Mus. No 37282] on the West Coast, several years
ago, I found that he had discovered Say’s species on the banks of the
Yaqui river near Guaymas, on the easterly side of the Gulf of
California. The jump was so great, across the vontinent or a good.
part of it, that I somewhat doubted my own eyes, and therefore sent
specimens to Tryon and Binney to learn their opinions; both of
these gentlemen confirmed my determination. Zonites (Hyalina)
Binney and Morse credited to “ North Eastern U. S.; Canada,” by
Mr. Pilsbry also makes a great leap to the westward, surpassing that
of S. hirsuta, having been detected at Vancouver Island B. C. accord-
ing to Dr. J. G. Cooper in Proc. Cal. Acad. Sciences, Dec. 31, 1887.
R. E. C. STEARNS.
Washington, D. C., Oct. 26, 1889.
THE SHELL-BEARING MOLLUSCA OF RHODE ISLAND.
BY HORACE F. CARPENTER.
Venericordia borealis Conrad.
Shell rounded, obliquely heart-shaped, thick and strong, inequi-
partite; beaks prominent; elevated and recurved; surface with
twenty ribs radiating from the beaks; three ribs are raised, rounded
and broad, with a narrow groove between each rib, crossed by
coarse lines of growth and the whole surface covered with a strong
rusty brown epidermis; hinge strong; teeth two in each valve;
interior white; margin crenulated. Length one inch; height one
inch; breadth ,.. Inhabits from New Jersey to Labrador; gener-
ally in deep water. It is often obtained from the stomachs of fishes.
Mr. 8. I. Smith found specimens in Gardiner’s Bay, Long Island,
and one specimen was found at Sandy Hook. I have found a few
specimens at Block Island. In Maine it grows to a larger size than
those found further south. Woodward quotes it from the Sea of .
Okhotsk, which if true, shows as wide distribution both in climate
and in extent of coast.
Another species, the Cyclocardia novangliz Morse, is quoted from
Connecticut to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, deep water, but has not
been found as yet in Rhode Island.
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ORDER ASIPHONIDA.
Mantle margins open; no siphons; pallial impressions without
sinus. This Order is sub-divided into three Sub-orders. _Homom-
yaria, Heteromyaria and Monomyaria.
SUB-ORDER. HOMOMYARIA.
Both muscular impressions equally distinct.
(To be continued.)
GENERAL NOTES.
Last January a living specimen of Glandina bullata Gould, was
received from Green Co., Ala.
After keeping it active for a few days it was put in a box, where
it remained dormant until placed in a pan containing damp sod
(May 4th); since then it has been out most every day.
My children delight to watch it crawl about and often handle it,
letting it crawl over their hands.
Some Patula perspectiva Say, were put in the pan; off of them it
made several meals, removing them from the shell by suction or by
cutting away the upper part of the whorls, except the last one.
A Helix muralis Miller, was eaten without injury to the shell.
A few days ago a Cut-worm was offered to it but was refused ; it was
then offered a Limax campestris Binney, which was eaten with ev-
ident relish, as were two others. They were first taken hold of in the
fissure, at the base of the palpiform labial appendages, and the fore
part of the foot ; the buccal pouch was then protruded and the slug
forcibly drawn in. The mouth is round, and I judge it to be about
three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter. While in the act of swallow-
ing, the palpiform appendages are drawn back to the sides of the head
and have a slight resemblance to ears; enough so, that a boy stand-
ing by exclaimed, “see his ears; I did not know it had ears.”
Later I tried it to see how many slugs it would eat at one time.
Taking it up by the shell its head would be placed on a slug and in
that way it picked up and ate six; the seventh it would not take
hold of. This meal gorged it so that it could not withdraw wholly
within its shell —A. A. Hinkley, Du Bois, Ill.
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
A PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE SHELL-BEARING MARINE
Mo.wuvsxs and Brachiopods of the Southeastern Coast of the United
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States, with illustrations of many of the species, by W. H. Dall,
A.M., Honorary Curator Dept. of Mollusks, U. S. Nat. Mus. (Bull.
U.S. Nat. Mus. No. 37). “ This work is intended to assist students
of the Mollusca in the United States, by bringing together for their
use a large number of excellent figures of species belonging to or
illustrating the fauna of the Southern and Southeastern Coasts of
the United States, from Cape Hatteras south to the Straits of Florida
and west to Mexico, with the adjacent waters. These figures are
explained and connected by a catalogue of the mollusks known to
inhabit that region.” The extreme northern and extreme southern
range of each species is given, and its presence in New Jersey,
Virginia, Hatteras, Georgia, East Florida, Florida Keys, West
Florida, Texas, West Indies, Bermuda, Europe and West America
is indicated in parallel columns. The catalogue thus comprises a
dozen local lists rolled into one, and put into the most convenient
possible form. We would recommend students working at localities
included within the limits above given (Hatteras to West Florida),
to use this work as a foundation, and omit in lists for publication
the species enumerated by Dr. Dall, unless they are peculiar or
local in distribution. As a hand-book for collectors of our southern
marine shells, the volume is indispensable. The plates number 74,
and illustrate by excellent line-engravings about one-third of the
total number of species (1,655) enumerated.
A Srupy oF THE AMERICAN SPECIES OF VERTIGO, by V. Sterki,
M. D. (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1888, 10pp. plate). In this paper
Dr. Sterki directs attention principally to the form of the last whorl
and the aperture-folds of Vertigo, and the relations of American to
European species. A convenient formula is given for expressing
the combinations, positions and relative importance of the teeth, the
principal or primary folds being designated by letters, the smaller
secondary ones by dots. Several species included by him in Vertigo
(e. g., P. pentodon) are said to be real Pups, by high authorities,
and possess distinct tentacles. These tiny fellows require further
study. The subgenus Angustula is proposed for our V. milium
and the European V. venetzii. The group is apparently a natural
one, but the name proposed must give way to Moquin-Tandon’s
Vertilla, proposed in 1855 for the last-named species. The figures
are excellent, and the whole paper is highly instructive and sug-
gestive, giving evidence of much eareful research.
THE NAUTILUS, 1889. PLATE I.
1, 2, 3, P. eultratus. 9, P. ewes. 15, B. pinguis.
4, A. excentricus. 10, B. compressicollis. 15, B. proelongus.
6, 7, P. calamitosa. 11, 16, B. pingwis var. 14, B. geoffreyi.
8, B. armandi. 12, “ © », dilitatus. 17, P. radiata.
18, B. alboreflexus. 19, B. cantori, v. octonus.
ere N Aer IL US.
VOL. II. DECEMBER, 1889. No. 8
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW AMERICAN HELIX.
BY F. A. SAMPSON.
On the Boston Mountains, Crawford Co., Arkansas, I found some
shells which may be described as follows:
Triodopsis edentata, n. sp.
Shell imperforate, depressed, with granulate striations, thickly
covered with hair-like projections; whorls 5, the last strongly con-
tracted at the aperture; suture not much impressed; spire short,
obtuse ; parietal wall with a long arcuated white tooth ;
umbilical region impressed; aperture contracted by a
deep indentation behind the peristome; on the inner
margin of the peristome are two enlargements or obsolete
teeth, one near the base, the other midway between it
and the right terminus of the peristome.
Greater diameter 133, lesser 12, height 7 mill.
T. inflecta in Arkansas varies from 9 to 12 mill. diameter, and the
larger shells in general appearance are very much like this species
with the exception of the teeth on the peristome. Had I found but
one or two specimens I would have taken them to be immature
inflecta of large size, but I found a dozen living and dead shells the
latter part of February, and they were all destitute of peristome
teeth, and are as much entitled to specific distinction as Triodopsis
Rugeli Schutt, in which the difference from inflecta is the distance
of the upper tooth of the peristome within the aperture.
In this species the enlargements of the péristome correspond in
position with the teeth of inflecta, but it is hardly proper to call
Gunes
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them teeth, the thinner shells being as clear of teeth as a typical
Mesodon, and only the old thickened shells have the obsolete teeth,
They attain a size somewhat larger than the largest specimens of
inflecta in the Binney collection.
Prof. Call believes them to be Triodopsis appressa minor, but they
seem to me to be nearer injlecta than appressa, and if not a distinet
species, they certainly are a well-marked variety.
NOTES ON THE VARIATION OF CERTAIN MOLLUSCA
INTRODUCED FROM EUROPE.
BY T. D. A. COCKERELL.
As Ihave urged when writing of Helix nemoralis, few subjects can
be more interesting to the conchologist than the effect of environment
on species, which is seen so frequently in the case of variable species
introduced into new countries.
Through the kindness of Mr. W. G. Binney and Prof. J. H.
Morrison, I have been enabled to examine specimens of several
species of European Mollusca introduced into this country, and to
refer them to various varieties already known in Europe, but mostly
so far not recognized in the American fauna.
(1.) Agriolimax agrestis (L.) var. Sylvaticus. (Mogq., non Drap.)
This is the mottled form of the species, and appears to be the
prevalent form at Burlington, New Jersey, whence Mr. Binney has
sent me several living examples. One of these is unusually large,
being 53 mill. long.
(2.) A. agrestis var. typica. (Less. & Poll.)
This is the spotless type, of which I found a single example at
St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, in 1887.
(3,) A. agrestis var. reticulatus (Moq.)
Resembles var. sylvaticus, but is reddish-ochre with black irregular
spots, often tending to reticulation on the body. Sent from Burling-
ton, N. J. (Mr. Binney).
(4,) Limax (Lehmannia) variegatus Drp. var. flavas Moq. (=L. flavus ‘*L.,”’
Auctt.)
Lexington, Va., one example from Prof. Morrison.
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(5.) Limax maximus “L.,”’ Auctt., var. vulgaris Moq.
This has the dorsal black bands continuous. One from Lexington,
Va. (Prof. Morrison).
(6.) L. maximus var. cellarius D’Argentyille.
The bands on the back interrupted at intervals. Fifteen speci-
mens, some tending toward var. ferussaci Mogq., from Lexington,
Va. (Prof. Morrison).
(7.) L. maximus var. maculatus Picard.
The back with black spots irregularly placed. One very nice
one from Burlington, N. J. (Mr. Binney).
(8.) Helix nemoralis L.
Mr. Binney has sent me several living examples from Burlington,
N. J., among which the var. rube//a greatly preponderates, guettardia
and cuvieria being the only other varieties represented. It is here
interesting to notice, that at Burlington, where the species has been
long established, it varies much /ess than at Lexington. The red
forms so rare at Lexington, largely preponderate in the Burlington
sendings.
Prof. Morrison has lately sent me several more varieties from
Lexington, ten being new, and two already recorded in Europe.
These latter are var. requienia Moq. (=petiverta 10345) and var.
libellula 1(234)5 Kreglinger. The new ones will be recorded later.
(9.) Helix hispida var. concinna (Jeffreys).
Mr. Binney sent me a shell found at. Montreal, referable to this
form. Itis pale horn color, max. diam. 8{, alt. 4% mill. HZ. concinna
was considered by Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys a valid species, but it cannot
be separated on sufficient grounds from Hl. hispida L.
(10.) Helix cantiana Mont. var. minor Moq.
Mr. Binney has sent me an example which he received from
Mr. F. R. Latchford, labelled “ Citadel, Quebec, Aug. 12, 1886.”
It is smaller and thinner than the type, with the least tinge of red
outside the outer lip. Max. diam. 15, alt. 10 mill. Figured in
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Vol. xiii, No. 2 (1886). PI. I, fig. 138.
This form, which I believe is very constant in its characters, is a
variety of Helix galloprovincialis Dupuy, which, however, is itself
undoubtedly a variety of H. cantiana.
West Cliff, Custer Co., Colo., Nov. 6, 1889.
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WHAT IS SPECIES?
BY CHARLES T. SIMPSON.
But while we are throwing stones at the ‘new school’ across the
water, let us be sure that on this side we are not living in glass
houses. Look at the 1200 species of Unionidz ; more than half of
which we proudly claim to be residents of the waters of the
United States! Look, too, at the vast number of names we apply to
our Strepomatidee, our Planorbis, Limnzeas and Physas! There can
be no doubt that the numbers of these genera, and perhaps those of our
Zonites and Helices will be greatly cut down when the truth con-
cerning them is at last revealed to us. How many species of shells
have we, right here in our own country, which have been thoroughly
and carefully studied; of which complete collections have been
made of specimens of various ages throughout their range, and com-
pared with anything like complete collections of allied forms? Very
few indeed! I know that in the matter of naming we are all “ prone
to err as the sparks are to fly upwards.” — It is said that a naturalist
has a horror of the unnamed, and I believe it. I know collectors,
and good students too, who will not have unidentified specimens in
their cabinets, and I confess that it makes me a little fidgety to
have a shell that I cannot refer to anything. Those who collect get
such things often, and when they refuse to agree with any figure
or description, it is aggravating and then often no doubt the Father
of Temptation puts it into their heads that they are new; and the
thought of seeing their names in print attached to one of the works
of nature, and the cheap glory that accompanies it stimulates them
to name and send them out, when perhaps had their relations been
carefully studied out, they would be found to be merely forms of
something already well known. I cannot forbear in this place from
quoting from a letter written by my friend, the late Miss Annie E.
Law, one of the most careful and indefatigable students and
collectors that has ever lived in this country. Shesays: “I want
to tell you what an iconoclast I would be if I hada chance! I send
you Eurycelon Wheatleyii which came from Mr. Wheatley himself.
Now can you see any reason why Anculosa praerosa wouldn’t be
just as gooda name? In the Holston and Clinch Rivers individuals
of the same species seem to grow heavier, coarser, and generally
larger as we go down stream.
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In the upper reaches we have Jo fluviatilis, 100 miles lower
down we have I. spinosa, I. turrita, and I. brevis. I have collected
many thousands of these Io’s: spinosa is the most abundant form ;
then, after picking out a few turrita and brevis there are always a
large proportion that might fit one place as well as another ; there-
fore I would call them all spinosa, more or less developed by local
causes. Pleurocera sycamorense in one stream becomes P. estabrookii
in another, and P. unicale ina third. Goniobasis sulcosa in a brook,
becomes G. arachnoidea in a creek. Pleurocera parvum and P.
Lyoni in a creek in the mountains, become P. fastigiatum in large
streams. Dr. Lewis regarded Goniobasis livescens and G. niagarensis
the same, and I don’t see why Pleurocera curtum and P. conicum
should need different names; and when it comes to the Strephobasis
I don’t want to name them.” Such is the opinion of one who has
spent many years of her life in exhaustive research and study among
the Molluses of Tennessee. And when a like thorough search and
comparison of all the species of North America has been made I pre-
dict that there will be a wholesale addition to the list of our syn-
onyms. No doubt in a number of the cases which Miss Law cites
the difference between selected specimens was great enough to
warrant separating them and giving them names, but the trouble
was that intermediate forms of every degree were found, which com-
pletely connected them; and as in so many other cases this variation
was produced by circumstances.
Now species founded on trivial characters, or those which in-
sensibly merge into others cannot stand. I fully agree with my
friend Dr. Singley of Giddings, Texas, who says that he wants species
which he “can separate from others without the aid of a powerful
magnifier and a vivid imagination.”
A careful and earnest student from Kansas writes as follows: “I
have lately collected a large number of Planorbis trivolvis from the
rivers and creeks in this vicinity, and I find it a most interesting
shell. I can take Binney’s Land and Fresh-water shells of North
America and a box of these and duplicate a half dozen species figured
and described in it.” And I believe the same will be found to be
true of our Succineas which need a thorough pruning down in the
matter of names.
And what is a variety? If species, as they are now recognized
among conchologists, hopelessly run together, where shall the varieties
appear? What is the difference between a variety and a species, is
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a question that I have often been asked ; in fact I have often made
the same inquiry myself. When the Judge wanted to know of Sam.
Weller whether he spelt his name with a V or a W he replied:
“That depends on the taste and fancy of the speller.” And I think
that in applying specific or varietal names, much depends on the
taste and fancy of the one giving them. I think a definition of a
variety might be, a shell which evidently belongs to a given species
but which presents certain constant minor variations from the type.
Sometimes these may be color, or of size, form, sculpture; in the
presence or absence of a tooth, or other detail, but it should always
be constant to be worth anything, and even when it is, conchologists
do not adhere to any strict rule in naming. Among the cones and
olivas, coloring is often the principal distinguishing character ; while
with shells like Donax and many of the Neritas and Neritinas, it
counts for nothing.
I believe that those of us who are more conservative should collect
and study not with a view to the formation of new species, but to cut
down and relegate to the synonymy the hundreds and perhaps thou-
sands of false ones which already exist. Instead of making the
inquiry over a puzzling form, isn’t it new, it would be better to ask,
doesn’t it connect species that are now considered separate. Mr.
Tryon gloriously inaugurated the work of cutting down the list of
our names, and I believe that as great honor and fame awaits the
iconoclast in the future, as can possibly belong to the most assiduous
member of the new school of the present.
ON CREPIDULA GLAUCA.
BY JOHN FORD.
In his recently published Catalogue of the Marine Mollusks of the
Southeastern coast of the United States, Dr. Dall appears to have
altogether ignored the existence of Crepidula glauca, Say, the figure
of the latter, taken from Gould’s Invertebrata of Massachusetts, hay-
ing been utilized by him to represent a juvenile C. fornicata, Say.
The same mistake was made by my friend, the late Mr. Geo. W.
Tryon, Jr., in one of his early publications, but a more recent
examination of a large number of specimens satisfied him that the
species was absolutely distinct from C. fornicata or any other species
belonging to the genus, ;
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The writer’s first knowledge of the characters of the two species
certainly convinced him that they were widely separated, and in
order that this fact might be made apparent to others, some fine
suites of both forms were shown and commented upon at a recent
meeting of the Phila. Acad. of Nat. Sciences, and, it may be added,
that the conchologists present fully endorsed the views of the speaker.
The several prominent characters exhibited by C. fornicata are as
follows:
Ist, the /ateral curve of the apex, which, though very prominent,
is, as a rule, closely attached to the body of the shell.
2d, the bow-like curve of the free edge of the interior arch.
3d, the well-defined nick at the junction of the latter with the
outer wall of the shell. 4th, the concave form of the septum, which is
the same in all stages of growth.
Other characters might be noted, but those given will doubtless
suffice to separate the species, as C. glauca has none of the features
alluded to.
The apex of the latter species is quite small and comparatively
free from contact with the body of the shell. It is also horn-like in
appearance, usually shining, and but slightly inclined to curve
laterally.
The free edge of the septum is straighter than that of C. fornicata,
and the notch is not only absent but replaced by a slight advance
of that part of the plate along and against the inner wall of the
shell. Another, and perhaps the strongest character of the group is
the convex form of the septum.
This feature, which is a constant one, may be safely depended on
to distinguish the species at once from C. fornicata in which the septum
is always depressed. The general outline of the shells will also help
the student to divide the species, C. fornicata as a rule being pear-
shaped, while C. glauca is usually disk or quoit-like in form. The
prevailing color of the latter is also a distinguishing mark, the inside
of the shells being ofa dark brown color and the outside a dark gray
or purple. j
That a species so well marked as C. glauca should be dropped or
merged into another without a given reason, is no small matter, and
more than one student will doubtless thank the eminent Doctor for
some explanation.
It may be of interest for some readers of the “ Nautilus” to know
that a very fine suite of the shells can be seen in the New Jersey
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collection of the Philadelphia Acad. of Nat. Sciences ; also, that the
writer, who has collected many scores of specimens, has never found
them associated with any other species of the genus.
JOHN Forp.
Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 12th, 1889.
THE SHELL-BEARING MOLLUSCA OF RHODE ISLAND.
BY HORACE F. CARPENTER.
FAMILY UNIONID.
This family formerly called Naides, embraces those shells com-
monly called fresh-water clams or mussels. They are found in
rivers aud ponds all over the world, but they reach their greatest
perfection in this country. Over twelve hundred species are known
to science, named and properly classified, of which more than half
inhabit the U.S. This family has been made the special study of
the late Dr. Isaac Lea, of Philadelphia, who died at the advanced
age of ninety-five years, on the eighth of Dec., 1886. He devoted
fifty years of his life to the study of the Unionide and has described
more new species than all other conchologists together. He has read
before scientific and other societies one hundred and nfty-seven
papers and has been honored by degrees and honorary membership
of twenty-five of the most prominent universities and_ scientific
associations of the world. His great work, “ Observations on the
genus Unio” consists of thirteen quarto volumes, illustrated by
hundreds of beautiful plates.
The shells of this family are not in general very attractive on the
outside, but the interior of the valves are always lined with a beau-
tiful pearly substance called nacre, which in some specimens are
pure white and in others salmon, rose-red, blue, green, purple, ete.
The sexes in this family are distinct, which is an exception to the
rule ina large majority of the species of Mollusca, where the sexes
are united in each individual. The shells exhibit but little varia-
tion in form except the usual one, that the females are more ventri-
cose and broader behind than the males.
The animals of this family are all capable of producing pearls,
some of which are of great beauty and value. In one instance six-
teen pearls were obtained from a single specimen. One of the
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objects of Czesar’s expedition to Great Britain was to obtain pearls
from the fresh-water clams of that country. The pearl fisheries of
Scotland in the river Tay, were continued until the end of the last
century and many large and beautiful pearls were found in the
river Tyronne, in Ireland.
One of the finest of the English pearls is now in Queen Victoria’s
crown. Old and deformed specimens are the most liable to contain
pearls, and they consist of a nucleus of some foreign substance
such as a grain of sand, covered by successive layers of nacre
secreted by the mantle of the animal. The color of the pearls varies
with its species, and is of the same shade as the nacre which lines
the interior of the valves.
In China the natives make little flat lead casts of their idols;
these they insert between the shell and the mantle of the animal, by
prying open the valves of these clams with a wedge; the presence
of these foreign substances irritates the animal and causes it to
deposit layer after layer of nacre upon them. After a time the
shells are opened and the images removed and worn as charms.
This family is divided into six genera, three of which inhabit the
U.S.: they are called Unio, Margaritana and Anodonta.
Genus Unio, Retzius, 1788.
Shell equivalve, multiform ; hinge with a short, irregular, striated,
simple or divided tooth in each valve, and an elongated, marginal
tooth.
There are about one thousand species of this genus, nearly eight
hundred of which are American and one hundred and fifty or more
inhabit the Ohio river and its tributaries; only five of these are
found in New England and but three inhabit R. I.
187.— Unio complanatus, Solander.
Syns. :
Mya complanata, Soiand. and Dillw.
Union purpurens, Say, Desh. Barnes.
Union purpuraceus, Lam.
Union violaceus, Spengl.
Union fluviatiles, Green.
Union (Naia) complanatus, Perkins.
Shell elongated-oval; beaks at the anterior fourth, almost always
eroded; surface coarsely wrinkled by the lines of growth, and
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covered with a thick tar-colored or very dark green epidermis;
interior lined with a dark peach blossom nacre, sometimes salmon
colored. There is a single, erect, pyramidal, cares striated car-
dinal tooth in the right valve, and two triangular, pyramidal teeth
in the left. valve; lateral teeth long, compressed and slightly curved.
Length, 3} inches; height, 2 inches; breadth, 1 inch.
This is our most common fresh-water clam. It is found in all the
rivers in the U. 8. which empty into the Atlantic Ocean, but is not
found west of the Atlantic slope. It is also abundant in almost all
the ponds east of the Allegheny mountains. It might be collected
by bushels in the Blackstone River, Cunliff’s Pond, Old Warwick
Pond and many others. It is a favorite article of food for the musk-
rat, which devours them in great numbers, leaving piles of empty
shells on the edges of the streams and ponds. It is a very curious
thing how the muskrat can open the sheli and devour the animal
without leaving a mark of teeth or claw upon the shell. Specimens
freshly cleaned of their contents are in as fine condition for the cab-
inet as those obtained alive and prepared on purpose, the two valves
held together perfectly by the ligaments, and the edges or margins
of the shell unbroken.
188.— Unio nasutus, Say.
Syns.:
Mya nasuta, Wood.
Eurynea nasuta, Stimp, Perkins, Morse, ete.
Unio rostratus, Valenc.
Unio nasutus, Say, Con. Lea, Gld. Dall, ete.
Shell slender, very inequilateral; beaks small, pointed and
slightly elevated, posterior produced so as to form a snout, from
which peculiarity its specific name. There are usually two or three
radiating lines running from the beaks to the end of the snout.
Surface smooth; epidermis glossy, of a dark olive-green color,
becoming dusky in old specimens. Nacre silvery white, iridescent,
sometimes with shades of bluish or salmon; cardinal teeth delicate,
compressed and directed obliquely forwards; cavity of the beaks
small. Length, 3 inches; height, 1} inches; breadth, 4 inch.
Described by Thos. Say in Nich. Eney. 181o. It fs quite a com-
mon shell in the Middle and some of the Western States, but is very
rare in New Eng. It has been found in only four localities in Mass.
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and in one in Conn., and after searching in vain for several years
and having given up all hopes of finding it in R. I., I unexpectedly
discovered a locality in the summer of 1871. In hunting for other
species of shells in Cunliff’s Pond at Elmville, in Cranston, I saw
a few single valves of this species lying near the shore ; knowing
that if dead shells were on the bank, live ones must be in the pond,
I went in, and succeeded in finding several splendid specimens of
this rare and unique species.
GENERAL NOTES.
New AMERICAN SHELLS. The following species are described
in a paper read before the Philadelphia Academy. Pupa Sterkiana,
a cylindrical species, the shape of P. muscorum, but nearly as large
as armifera, the mouth without teeth, surface strongly rib-striate,
from Lower California. Zonites selenitoides, a Californian species, a
little larger than Z. minusculus, ribbed like Selenites duranti. Helix
Streatori, from Caymon Id., south of Cuba, allied to H. gaussoini
Tryon, but more depressed, banded with chestnut color, and with
more conical spire.—Pilsbry.
Pa@cCILOZONITES CIRCUMFIRMATUS var. CORNEuS. This is different
from the typical form in lacking color-markings. Shell thin, fragile,
horn-colored. The specimens were given me by the ABBE VATHE-
LET, who collected them in Bermuda.—Pilsbry.
Pupa wanTep. The editor wishes to obtain specimens of Pupa
decora Gld. for comparison with Western shells. A liberal exchange
will be given.—Pilsbry.
LIMAX AGRESTIS IN PHILADELPHIA. I have just examined a
series of 21 examples of this species collected in Philadelphia, Pa.,
and kindly sent to me by Mr. H. A. Pilsbry. So far as one can
judge from alcoholic specimens, five color-varieties are represented.
Two specimens appear white, and may be referred to var. albidus,
Picard. Six are pale ochery, and spotless, and are referable to
typicus Less. and Poll., but approach rufescens in their color. Six
have very indistinct brownish marbling or reticulation, and may be
classed under Moquin’s var. obscurus. Five are var. sy/vaticus Mog.
(now Drap.), and two are to be regarded as V. reticulatus, although
differing slightly from the description of that variety. One specimen
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has the mantle distinctly bifid anteriorly,
formation which I have not before seen.
a very interesting mal-
T. D. A. CocKERELL.
West Cliff, Colorado, Dec. 7, 1889.
Hyatrnra Srerxkit Dall, originally found near New Philadelphia
(Tuscarawas Co.), Ohio, has also been collected in the Northeast
(either Summit or Lake Co.) of the same state—Dr. Sterki.
For THE EXAMINATION of small and minute species of Hyalinia,
Pupa, Vertigo, ete., it is just the right thing to have everything
collected in a locality mixed up; that will allow the best idea of the
malacological character of a place—Dr. Sterki.
Pura Houzrncert, Sterki, proves to be widely distributed in the
Northwest. Since the first few examples were known it has been
collected in Will and LaSalle Counties, Illinois, by Mr. J. H. Ferriss,
of Joliet, Ill. From-lowa, Nebraska and Dakota (Ft. Berthold),
I found it in collections, under various names. From Minnesota I
know of none after the first examples from Winona.—Dr. Sterki.
Dr. Datu has recently proposed a new classification of the
Bivalves, very different in some respects from the old arrangements
founded on the number of muscles or gills. An abstract will appear
in the January NAUTILUs.
AN INTERESTING little book has been received from Prof. R. E.
C. Stearns, on “ Ethno-Conchology; a study of Primitive money ”
(Ex Rep. U.S. Nat. Mus.). Romance and love, pearls, treasures,
dashing Spanish cavaliers, and all manner of attractive things illu-
minate the earlier pages; from these the author descends to the
more sordid and commonplace money-cowries, and to strings of
purple and white wampum, Dentalium-money and Haliotis-money.
It is all so interesting that we will not quote, but recommend the
entire paper to our readers.
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VOL. Il. JANUARY, 1890. No. 9.
IN A MAINE CONCHOLOGIST’S HUNTING GROUNDS.
Next to the pleasure of being in a region which has not been
scientifically explored, the student of natural history finds most
delight in visiting a place where some shining luminary in his
favorite branch has made his mark. There is the earnest resolve to
find every species mentioned by the earlier scholar, and the tempting
hope of something new. Such a spot is the beautiful town of Bethel,
Me., the old stamping ground of Edward 8. Morse. Those who
have read his papers on the land and fresh water shells of Maine,
on the land Mollusks of New England, and his more general articles
on the Pupas and Vertigos, can but regret that the greater attrac-
tions of Japanese pottery and the lecture platform, drew him away
from studies of conchology. For he is a man who goes deep into
whatever subject he takes up, even the humble land snails no larger
than radish seeds. It was at Bethel that Morse discovered the
curious little Planogyra asteriscus, the lusterless steel-blue Zon-
ites ferreus, and the tiny Vertigo ventricosa. I found the former
abundant in a swampy place beneath some pine trees on the edge of
the wide Androscoggin intervales, early in October. The layers of
damp leaves were alive with many species of minute shells, Zonites
milium and Z. Binneyanus, both Morse discoveries, were very rare,
but Z. exiguus, Z. radiatulus, Z. fulvus, Patula lineata, Vertigo
Gouldii, Pupa contracta and Carychium exiguum were plentiful.
By taking up each dead leaf separately, a few brown specks were some-
times found, which a magnifying glass revealed as Punctum pygmae-
um or minutissimum. In dryer places, beneath pieces of bark, and
fallen trees were other tiny shells. Zonites ferreus, Patula striatella
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a single Patula harpa, Helix labyrinthica and Zonites arboreus.
An old oak stump in the pasture was the hiding place of Helix
monodon. Beneath fern roots in a clump of oak trees in the inter-
vale I discovered Macrocyclis coneava, Succinea obliqua and
Vitrina limpida, perhaps the most slimy and difficult to handle of
all shells, after being plunged into hot water previous to cleaning.
Lastly, where the brook moistened the mossy rocks and the roots of
the great beach trees, was the home of the plainly beautiful Helix
albolabris. Only in one spot did I find the asteriscus. Perhaps
Morse found his type specimens in that identical spot. Whether he
did or not is immaterial, but he could hardly have found a better
place, or experienced more pleasure in the discovery than I did.
It was Edward 8. Morse who remarked that the multitude of
intelligent young people who spend hours in the puzzle departments
of magazines, and obtain simply an answer to clever word juggling,
could find equally entertaining puzzles in Nature’s book, the solving
of which would bring more than mere words. They would find
that the life history of natural objects had all the fascination of a
well-written story—the turning of everv page, arousing increased
interest in what might follow.
Our young students of conchology should be induced to look
among the little shells for new discoveries. Anybody can pick up
Helix albolabris in its home, but only those who know what they
are looking for can find Planogyra asteriscus. Let us see if the
influence of Morse and his Bethel shells can be made to animate a
new generation of pupils.
EpwaRpD W. Roper.
NOTE ON CREPIDULA GLAUCA SAY.
BY W. Bo DAL.
My friend, Mr. John Ford, raises the question of the omission of
this alleged species from the Hst of Mollusks of our southeastern
coast and asks for an explanation. In reply, I would say that the
specimens named C. glauca by Stimpson and others among the older
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naturalists, which have come under my notice have all appeared to
me to be referable to C. fornicata (LL) Lam., or to the variety of
C. convexa Say which has grown upon a broad, not very convex, or
perhaps a partly concave surface. A fine series of shells from Cape
May, submitted to me by Mr. Ford as C. glauca come under the
latter category. They are distinct from C. fornicata, but they do
not show the: characters called for by Say’s description, which in
itself presents no features to distinguish the shell he describes from
the young and spotted form of C. fornicata, to which I have no
doubt it belonged. Such shells are in the National Museum labeled
C. glauca by Stimpson. It may not be known to all our concholo-
gists that the extremely high and usually dark-colored forms of
Crepidula, such as C. convexa (typical) and C. adunca of California,
derive their peculiar appearance from roosting on some gasteropod,
and that wider and less elevated forms of the same species can
almost always be found, if not in the same locality, at least in a
geographical series of wide range. The difficulties, in the way of a
satisfactory determination of such semi-parasitic forms as the Calyp-
treide are very great, and increase in my experience with the
amount of material subjected to study. Thatthere may be a distinct
form entitled to be called C. glauca I do not wish positively to deny,
but I must confess that I have never seen one and therefore have
grave doubts of its existence.
A LIST OF THE MOLLUSCA OF COLORADO.
(Compiled for the Colorado Biological Association. )
BY T. D. A. COCKERELL.
In the “ Journal of Conchology,” vol. vi, pp. 60-65, I gave some
preliminary remarks on the Mollusca of Colorado, stating that from
the lack of records and other reasons, a complete list could not then
be prepared. Since then a considerable amount of material and
information has been gathered, and while much remains unknown,
there is sufficient ascertained to seem to warrant the presentation of
a faunal list. In this list the localities are not all given in detail, as
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it has been deemed unnecessary to repeat details of this kind which
have been published elsewhere. Many species are considered by the
author to be identical with those uf Europe; some of these are
considered distinet by good authorities, and pending sufficient
anatomical comparisons, are retained as varieties. | A distinction is
also drawn between “ forms” and “ varieties.”
LIMACID.
Agriolimax campestris var. montanus (Ing.), Grand Co. (Ingersoll),
Agriolimax Morch presents differences from Limax proper which are
probably to be considered generic. A. montanus cannot be distin-
guished from campestris by external characters, and I do not think
its anatomical ones warrant specific separation.
A. campestris montanus form castaneus (Ing.) Blue River Valley
(Ingersoll). Probably only a young example of montanus, and
certainly no better than a variety. Vide J. of Conch. V, 358.
A. campestris montanus form typicus Ckll. Custer Co.; Chaffee
Co.; Saguache Co.; Fremont Co. (Canon City) ; Summit Co. ; Eagle
Co.; Mesa Co.; Gunnison Co. \
A. campestris montanus form intermedius Ckll. Saguache Co.;
Fremont Co. (Canon City); Pueblo Co. (Wales Canon) ; Custer Co.
(Wet Mountain Valley) ; Summit Co.; Mesa Co.; Delta Co.
A. campestris montanus form tristis Ckll. Lake Co.; Summit Co. ;
Delta Co. A few specimens of A. agrestis and Helix nemoralis, from
Burlington, New Jersey, have been liberated at West Cliff, Custer
Co.
Vitrina pellucida var. limpida (Gould). White Earth River
(Ingersoll) ; Dillon, Summit Co.; Swift Creek, Custer Co. ; Grand
Mesa, Mesa Co.; Wales Canon, Pueblo Co.; Cottonwood Gulch,
Saguache Co.; near Mam Mts., Mesa Co.; West Fork of Surface
Creek, Delta Co.; South Park (Yarrow).
V. pfeifferi Newe. Head of Gunnison River (Binney); San
Juan Co. (Ingersoll); E. Fork Arkansas River, Lake Co.; near
Cattle Creek, Garfield Co. ; near Mam Mts., Mesa Co. ; Breckenridge
(Hy. Prime); Rock Creek, Routt Co. ; Fort Garland (Yarrow) ;
Twin Lakes (Yarrow).
Hyalina nitida (Miull.) High alpine (Carpenter), needs con-
firmation. s
Hyalina arborea (Say). San Juan Co. (Ingersoll); Williams
Canon, Manitou (M. E. Cusack); South Park (Yarrow); Twin
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Lakes (Yarrow); near West Cliff, Custer Co.; Micawber Mine,
10,000 feet, Custer County; Wales Canon, Pueblo County ; Slate
Creek, Summit Co.; Buzzard Creek, Mesa Co.; Black Lake Creek,
Summit Co. ; Chalk Creek, Chaffee Co. ; Divide Creek, Garfield Co. ;
Plateau Creek, Mesa Co.; Kremmling, Grand Co.; near Egeria,
Routt Co,
HI. arborea torm viridula Ckll. (Science Gossip, 1889, 257.)
Horseshoe Bend Gulch, 10,000 ft., Custer Co., and other localities
in the same district.
HI. radiatula (Alder). Saguache Co. (Ingersoll); South Park
(Yarrow). This is electrina Gld., but it may rot be viridula Menke.
Hi. radiatula form radiatula (Alder). Pueblo Co.; Smith’s Park,
Custer Co.; Mesa Co.; near Cattle Creek, Garfield Co.
H. radiatula form viridescenti-alba (Jeffreys). Smith’s Park,
Custer Co.; Mesa Co.
H. minuscula (Binney). Mountains near Ft. Garland (Yarrow).
H. (Conulus) fulva var. chersina (Say). White Earth River
(Ingersoll) ; South Park (Yarrow); Twin Lakes (Yarrow) ; near
West Cliff, Custer Co.; Micawber Mine, 10,000 ft., Custer Co. ;
Pueblo Co.; Kremmling, Grand Co.; near Egeria, Routt Co. ;
Buzzard Creek, Mesa Co. ; Surface Creek, Delta Co. ; Divide Creek,
Garfield Co.; Black Lake Creek, Summit Co. H. chersina seems
to me a pure synonym of fulva, but Mr. Ancey regards it as
probably distinct.
HELICIDZ:.
Patula strigosa (Gould). Grand R. (Binney); Gilpin Gulch
(H. Prime); Blue River (Yarrow); Saguache (Yarrow).
Patula strigosa form globosula nov. Small, globose, dark above
periphery with two bands, transverse grooved striz rather well
marked. Diam. 113, alt. 8} mill. Black Lake Creek, Summit Co.
The specimen seems immature, but is remarkable as being the only
form I have seen in Colorado that is nearer to strigosa than Coopert.
Is is doubtless allied to var. Gouldi Hemphill.
P. strigosa var. Cooperi W. G. Binney. Grand River (Binney) ;
Blue River Valley (Ingersoll); Gilpin Gulch (H. Prime); Will-
iams Canon, Manitou (M. E. Cusack); Morrison, Lyons, and St.
Vrain Canon (A. Eastwood); Gunnison (E. W. Roper); Middle
Park and North Park (Ingersoll); near Durango (A. Eastwood) ;
Micawber Mine, Custer Co.; Kremmling, Grand ‘Co.; Egeria,
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Routt Co.; Pueblo Co. (R. Cusack) ; Hardscrabble Canon, Custer
Co.; Black Lake Creek, Summit Co.; Pottery Pass, about 11,500
feet, Summit Co.; Red Cliff, Eagle Co.; near Glenwood Springs,
Garfield Co.; near Buzzard Creek, Mesa Co.; Surface Creek,
Delta Co.; near White Earth Creek, Gunnison Co.
P. strigosa cooperi form typica Ckll. Canon City (T. Morgan) ;
Cave of the Winds, Manitou (E. W. Roper), and many other
localities.
P. strigosa coopert form trifasciata Ckll. Mesa Co.
P. strigosa cooperi form confluens Ckll. West Mountain Valley,
Custer Co.; Garfield Co.; Mesa Co.
P. strigosa cooperi form elevata Ckll. Delta Co.
P. strigosu cooperi var. depressa noy. Shell flattish, max. diam.
214, alt. 123 mill. Specimens of this variety were sent to me by
Miss A. Eastwood, who found them in a canon near Durango.
The same variety is figured by Binney, Man. Amer. Land Shells
(1885), p. 166, fig. 153.
P. strigosa cooperi form major noy. Shell with diam. 25 mill.
Near head of North Mam Creek, Mesa Co., Sept. 14, 1887.
P. strigosa cooperi var. minor Ckll. Near Egeria, Routt Co.,
abundant. It is quite a distinct local race.
P. strigosa var. hemphilli (Newe.) Williams Canon, Manitou
(Binney). This perhaps requires confirmation. The examples of
strigosa I have seen from Williams Canon are ordinary cooperi. The
young of cooperi is keeled.
P. striatella (Anth.) Twin Lakes and South Park (Yarrow) ;
Este’s Park (Binney); Grand Co. (Ingersoll); Gilpin Gulch (H,
Prime); Williams Canon, Manitou (M. E. Cusack); Swift Creek,
Custer Co.; Kremmling, Grand Co.; Rock Creek, Routt Co.;
Powderhorn, Gunnison Co.; Divide Creek and near Cattle Creek,
Garfield Co.; Buzzard Creek, Mesa Co.; Black Lake Creek, Sum-
mit Co.
P. striatella form albina (Morse). Near Mam Mts., Mesa Co
Differs from the type in having a white shell.
P. ruderata var. eronkhitet (Newe.) Blue River Valley (Inger-
soll) ; Cottonwood Gulch, Saguache Co. ; Micawber Mine, Chester Co.
P. ruderuta eronkhitet form viridula noy. Shell greenish-white.
Micawber Mine, Custer Co.
P. ruderata var. gorktschana Mouss. Ouray Co. (Binney).
P. (Punctum) pygmea var. minutissima (Lea). Willow Creek,
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Custer Co. I doubt whether minutissima is separable even as a
variety from pygmea.
P. (Punctum) conspecta (Bland.) San Juan Co. (Ingersoll).
P. (Thysanophora) ingersolli (Bland). San Juan Co. (Inger-
soll); near Brush Creek, 10,000 ft., Custer Co.; Clearwater Creek,
Grand Mesa, Mesa Co.
Scala humphieysit Wiener.
S. humphreysii Kiener in Species et Icon. Coquilles Vivantes,
Scalaria, p. 15, pl. 5, fig. 16.
fo)
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S..lineata Gould in Invert. of Mass., Binney’s edit., fig. 580, but
not description.
S. sayana Dall, Report on Blake Gasteropoda, p. 309; and Bull.
U.S. Nat. Mus. No. 37, p. 123, pl. 50, fig. 10.
The mistake of considering S. humphreysii a synonym originated
with Sowerby. By blunder it is quoted “ hwmphreysiana” in the
Conchologia Iconica, and Tryon evidently followed that work in-
stead of the original in the Manual of Conchology. To Dr. Dall
belongs the credit of discriminating the species from S. angulata,
and I regret the necessity which compels me to place the name he
proposed in the synonymy. S. humphreysii is more plentiful than
the real S. angulata on the Southern New Jersey Coast.—H. A. P.
TEETH oF Snaits. The Editor has recently received from Miss
Anna Goodsell, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., a number of beautifully
mounted radulze of Western Mollusks. If conchologists who possess
microscopes of even very moderate powers will examine these
beautiful structures they cannot but become interested in them.
Odontophores of numerous Western species can be obtained of Miss
Goodsell.—P.
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
ON THE LINGUAL DENTITION AND SYSTEMATIC OF PyRGULA by
C. E. Beecher. (Ex. Jour. N. Y. Micros. Soc.) The dentition of
this interesting genus for many years a desideratum is figured and its
character discussed by Mr. Beecher. He concludes that Pyrgula is
most nearly allied to the Melanians. The true position of the genus
seems to us to be with Buicalia and its subgroups, Micromelania and
a few other small groups, which agree in having no basal denticles
to the central teeth. The entire anatomy, the shells, and the radula
(apart from this one character of lacking basal denticles) is that of
Amynicola and other fresh-water rissoids, not at all like Welania. Dr.
Fischer has already included Baicalia in the Hydrobiide as a sub-
family, Baicaliine. I would enlarge his subfamily to include not only
Baicalia and its sections, but also Pyrgula and Micromelania. The
108 THE NAUTILUS.
North and South American so-called Pyrgula belong to Pyrgulopsis
Call and Pilsbry and Lyrodes Doring, and group with Amnicola.—P.
NOTICE TO YOUNG COLLECTORS.
The proprietors wish to state that beginning with the February
number, the young readers of Tar Naurrivus will be provided
with an
.
AMATEUR’s CORNER
in which the rudiments of Conchology will be taught, illustrations
of well-known shells given, scientific terms explained, and any other
information given which will be of interest to young collectors. Prof.
Josiah Keep, author of that popular book “ West Coast Shells,”
Dr. V. Sterki and others have promised to contribute articles to this
department, and we look forward to a good time in our renewed
search for “ Shell Knowledge” in company with you.
We would state that together with the Latin terms used we will give
the common names of shells when they have any.
H. A. Ped; Wiseee
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VOL. III. FEBRUARY, 1890. No. 10.
COLLECTING LAND SHELLS IN EASTERN NEW YORK.
BY W. 5S. TEATON:
Near the east shore of the Hudson, midway between Tivoli and
Barrytown, in Duchess Co., New York, is Cruger’s Island. It has
an area of seventy-five acres, and is so richly endowed with beauties
and attractions—nature’s gifts, which the owners have carefully
fostered—that to the visitor it seems a place of enchantment. The
scenery is especially fine; an almost undisturbed view for miles up
and down the “ Rhine of America,” with the majestic Catskills some
ten miles distant to the west, a beautiful background to the picture;
while from its many winding paths are ever-changing vistas of water,
mountain and sky.
At the northeasta large stream, the White Clay Kill, rushes down
the rocks through a romantic glen and has its outlet. South of
this, for a long distance, fringing the east shore of the eave, and hay-
ing a width varying from an eighth to a half mile, is an extent of
heavily-wooded land of perhaps two hundred acres, part of a park-
like domain of Revolutionary days called “ Almont.” The soil is of
decided clayey character, and there are a half dozen little rivulets
coming from the hills at the east running through to the river,
With their numerous tributary branches they have cut their way
down through the plastic earth making quite an intricate succession
of deep gullies.
Here are hundreds of grand, massive white oaks, beeches, and
hickories, growing so thickly as to almost shut out a glimpse of the
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sky. It is a scene of primitive sylvan grandeur not often found
in this part of the country. Great numbers
of fallen trees and decaying logs are lying in
every ravine, and the ground is thickly
carpeted with leaves. It is thus an ideal
home for the land snails, which flourish in
Helix albolabris. abundance, and a “happy hunting ground ”
for the enthusiastic collector, who, if he pays it a visit during a warm,
humid day of summer—just after a shower for instance, when every-
thing among the trees is saturated, and the air is smoking with
will find the woods literally teeming with Mollusean life.
The writer on one such day
rarried home actually two
quarts of splendid live speci-
mens in his pockets, besides
moisture
= having filled all his colleet-
H. palliata. ing boxes. They speedily
a slimy mass, not conducing in any great degree to
personal comfort, but who among the Nautilus people
could resist a like temptation ?
At such a time an abundance of Helix albolabris,
large and beautiful, and H. thyroides, crawling about
the logs, and traveling among the leaves; plentiful
supplies of H. alternata and palliata, but keeping
H.palliata. nearer at home; ocasionally a Zonites fuliginosus—
a very pretty shell when perfect ; many of H. tridentata ; H. monodon
(fraterna), and hirsuta to be had on closer search among the stones
in the vicinity of the falls; while down at the river’s edge, on the
rushes and weeds, are thousands of Suecinea ovalis, and associated
with them though in greatly lessened proportion. is an elongated
form of S. avara of dark amber color, some individuals of which are
found reaching 11 millimeters in length.
Patula alternata.
(To be continued.)
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NEW WESTERN SLUGS.
BY T. D. A. COCKERELL.
Prophysaon pacificum Cockerell, n. sp.
Length (in aleohol) 173 mill. Body and mantle ochery-brown,
head and neck gray. Mantle granulated, rather broad, with a black
band on each side not reaching the anterior border ; these bands are
furthest (2+ mill.) apart near the respiratory orifice, from which
point they converge posteriorly, and anteriorly by the bending of
the band on the right side. Length of mantle 7{ mill., breadth 4
mill. Respiratory orifice 3} mill. from anterior border. Body
cylindrical, rounded and very blunt at end, not conspicuously taper-
ing. Distance from posterior end of mantle to end of body, 8 mill.
Body dark grayish-ochre above, with an indistinct pale dorsal line ;
sides paler. Reticulation distinct, with indistinct “ foliations.” Sole
somewhat transversely wrinkled, but not differentiated into tracts.
Jaw dark, strongly curved, blunt at ends, with about 10 well-
marked ribs. Lingual membrane, with about 35-1-35 teeth ; centrals
tricuspid, the side cusps very small, laterals bicuspid, marginals with
a large sharp straight point, and asmall outer one. Compared with
P. humile the centrals are slightly shorter and broader. Liver dark
gray-brown.
Found by Mr. H. F. Wickham under logs in ditches by the road-
side and damp places at Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1889.
This is a very distinct species, easily recognized by its color, the
absence of dark bands on the body, the pale dorsal line, and the
blunt posterior extremity.
Prophysaon flavum Cockerell, n. sp.
Length (in aleohol) 25 mill. © Body and mantle dull ochreous,
head and neck ochreous. Mantle tuberculate-granulose, grayish-
ochre, pale at edges, and with black marbling or spots in place of the
bands of P. pacificwum. Length of mantle 11 mill., breadth 52 mill.
Respiratory orifice 5 mill. from anterior border. Body cylindrical,
hardly tapering, and blunt at end. Distance from posterior end of
mantle to end of body, 14 mill. Body dark grayish-ochre above,
with a pale ochreous dorsal line not reaching much more than half
its length; sides paler. Reticulations distinct, “foliated.” Sole
with well-marked transverse lines or grooves, those of either side
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meeting in a longitudinal median groove, which divides the foot into
two portions. Liver pale grayish. “ Uniform tawny as is Limax
flavus. It stretches itself out in a worm-like shape unlike other
species. Internal shell plate, jaw and tongue as in Andersont.”
(W. G. Binney.) ,
Gray’s Harbor, Washington. (Hemphill, 1889.)
This is probably a variety of P. pacificum.
Prophysaon ceruleum, n. sp.
Length (in alcohol) 223 mill, in motion, 45 mill. Body and
mantle clear blue-gray, paler at sides, sole white. Mantle finely
granulated, broad, without markings. Length of mantle 7 mill,
breadth 5 mill. Respiratory orifice 24 mill. from anterior border.
Body subcylindrical, tapering, pointed. (In one specimen eaten off
at the end.) Distance from posterior end of mantle to end of body,
107 mill. .
The reticulations take the form of longitudinal equidistant lines,
occasionally joined by transverse lines, or coalescing. Sole not
differentiated into tracts. Jaw pale, strongly ribbed. Liver white.
Mr. Binney sends me colored drawings of the living animal; the
neck is long and white, or very pale. Mr. Binney has examined
the jaw and lingual, and finds them as usualin the genus. Several
specimens were sent from Olympia, Washington Ter., from Mr.
Hemphill to Mr. Binney.
P. cerulewm is an exceedingly distinct species, dina iene at
once by it color and the character of its reticulations.
Prophysaon ceruleum var. dubium n. var.
Length (in alcohol) 8 mill. Length of mantle + mill. Distance
from posterior end of mantle to end of body 53 mill. Mantle broad,
with four bands composed ot coalesced black marbling, very ir-
regular in shape, and running together anteriorly. Body dark,
tapering. Sole pale, its edges gray. Liver white.
With the P. ceruleum is a small dark slug, probably a variety of
it, but differing as described above. Jt will easily be distinguished
by its blackish color and the peeuliar markings on the mantle.
Prophysaon humile Cockerell, n. sp.
Length (in alcohol) 163 mill. Body above and mantle smoke-
color, obscured by bands. Mantle wrinkled, and having a broad
dorsal and two lateral blackish bands, reducing the ground-color to
two obscure pale subdorsal bands. Length of mantle 7 mill., breadth
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53 mill. Respiratory orifice 2{ mill. from anterior border. Body
subeylindrical, somewhat tapering, rather blunt at end. Distance
from posterior end of mantle to end of body 8 mill. Back with a
blackish band reaching a little more than half its length, and lateral
darker blackish bands reaching its whole length. Reticulations dis-
tinct, “foliated.” Solestrongly transversely striate-grooved, but not
differentiated into tracts. Jaw pale, strongly striate, moderately
curved, not ribbed. Lingual membrane long and narrow. Teeth
about 35-1-55. Centrals tricuspid, laterals bicuspid, marginals with
a large point, and one (sometimes two) small outer points. Liver
pale chocolate.
Found by Mr. A. F. Wickham under the bark of rotten logs in
the woods around Lake Cceur d’ Alene, Idaho, 1889.
In its reticulations, and general external characters, this species
resembles P. andersoni, of which it is possibly a variety.
OCCURRENCE OF HELICINA OCCULTA SAY, IN BROWN CO., WIS.
BY GEO. T. MARSTON.
My first knowledge of the occurrence of this mollusk in Brown
County, was in the spring of 1886, when I found a single “dead
shell” on the shore of Fox river about two miles south of DePere.
Again, on May 13, 1888, I found five (5) specimens, all alive, upon
the banks of a small creek which, rising in a limestone ridge about a
mile from where the specimens were procured and about three miles
east of DePere, flows into East or Devil River and eventually into
Green Bay.
The shells were found, within a space of 300 feet, along the banks
of this creek, the land above and below this being under cultivation.
They were isolated and were obtained only after careful search, my-
self and an assistant going over the place frequently.
A week later when another search was made, and in the spring of
1889, no specimens could be found. ;
The little tract inhabited by this shell is very rich in land and
fresh water mollusks, and seems to be a favorite resort of Helicodiscus
lineata, which lives there in great numbers.
Green Bay, Was January 28, 1890.
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ANNOTATED LIST OF THE SHELLS OF ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA.
BY CW. JOHNSON:
Crepidula glauca Say. I think there is no doubt but that C.
glauca and C. convexa are the same species—their form depending
on the object upon which they have grown. But I doubt whether
they are varieties of C. fornicata. In the series before me the follow-
ing characters seem to distinguish them from the typical young of
C. fornicata. Apex distant from the margin, septum thinner and less
depressed.
Crepidula unguiformis Lam. Common.
Crepidula aculeata Gmel. Not common.
Scala angulata Say. Common.
Scala humphrey Kiener. Common.
Scala multistriata Say. One specimen.
Scala turricula Sowb. Not common.
Scala lineata Say. Not common.
Tanthina fragilis Lam. A few after a storm.
Vermetus spiratus Phil. var. radicula Stimp. A few on the ocean
beach.
Turbonilla areolata Ver. One specimen.
Odostomia impressa Say. Common on oysters.
Columbella lunata Say. Common upon sea weed.
Columbella avara Say. Common.
Cancellaria reticulata. A few sea-worn specimens.
Terebra dislocata Say. Common on the sand bars in the harbor.
Clathurella plicata C. B. Ad. Common among oysters.
Daphnella cerina Kurtz & Stimp. Common among the wash of
small shells on the ocean beach.
Strombus pugilus Linn. A few sea-worn specimens. I have
never seen a trace of Sirombus costatus Gimel., in this locality.
Bahama specimens are common in the shell stores. I have specimens
from Lake Worth, Fla. (250 miles south).
Trivia pediculus Linn. Several sea-worn specimens.
Ovula uniplicatum Sowb. Common on the Leptogorgia virgulata,
a species of Gorgonia. As this varies in color (orange, yellow, white
and purple), the shells to a great extent partake of the color of the
Gorgonia on which they live.
Ovula gibbosa Linn. One living specimen on the Leptorgia.
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Cassis cameo Stimp. One sea-worn specimen on the ocean beach.
Semicassis sulcosus Brug. var. inflata Shaw. Rare.
Dolium galea Linn. Several broken shells. D. perdix is not
found here.
Pyrula papyratia Say. A few sea-worn specimens.
Natica pusilla Say. Common.
Natiea duplicata Say. Common.
Sigaretus perspectivus Say. Not common.
Sigaretus maculataSay. Rare. I believe that this is identical with
S. Martinianus Phill., of the West Indies. The only apparent
difference is that the revolving brown bands of S. martinianus are
irregularly divided into maculations by broad longitudinal lines
which usually represent rest periods in the growth of the shell and
are frequently on S. martinianus.
Pyramidella conica C. B. Ad. Several specimens.
Littorina irrorata Say. Common.
Littoria scabra L. var. lineata Gmel. Common on the sea wall
but much smaller than those from the southern part of the State.
Cerithium atratum Born. Common around Marsh Island.
Cerithidea scalariformis Say. Common along the marshes west of
the city.
Cerithiopsis greenit C. B. Ad. Common.
Cerithiopsis terebralis C. B. Ad. Common.
Triforis nigrocinctus C. B. Ad. Common.
(To be continued.)
A WORD TO YOUNG COLLECTORS.
BY JOSIAH KEEP.
We ought to feel a great veneration for the men who have gone
before us, and who spent so much time and strength in preparing
the way for those who were to follow. Whenever we take up the
label of a shell and see the abbreviation “ Linn.” following the specific
name, how it carries our thoughts back to the great Swedish natu-
ralist who did so much to simplify the nomenclature and enlarge the
domain of science.
116 THE NAUTILUS.
And as we cannot exercise feelings of veneration and gratitude
for mere names of unknown persons, it is well for us to become some-
What acquainted with the lives of the great naturalists whose initials
meet us whenever we glance over our collections. |For some of us,
perhaps, this is not an easy task; but fortunately books and papers
upon these subjects are becoming more common, and it is much
easier now to obtain this information than it was a few years-ago.
Such names as Say and Gould and Binney, for instance, while they
serve primarily to identify the terms which these authors applied to
their species, may themselves be studied and identified ; and as we
learn more of their pure and earnest lives, we shall have a deeper
respect and a more profound veneration for the men who studied
and wrote before we were born, and who left us the fruits of their
labors. Veneration for character and admiration for attainments
are healthful feelings, and their free exercise speaks well for the
youthful mind.
And not only for the dead, but also for the living naturalists we
should cherish these feelings, and seek for information concerning
their lives. Many of them in their youth experienced the same
perplexities and encountered the same difficulties which beset some
of us now, and as we learn of their victories we may be encouraged
to more vigorous action.
_ But while we entertain these sentiments of respect and esteem for
both the past and the present workers in science, it is well to
remember two things.
First. The men and women who are to be eminent in science
forty years hence are boys and girls now. Each year adds to the
list of the honored dead. A few, like the venerable Isaac Lea, spend
nearly a century among the scenes of their labors and pleasures ;
but others, like the lamented Tryon, are cut down suddenly, in the
midst of active vitality. The ranks are being recruited, it is true,
but the recruits must ever come from the young.
Second. Truth is greater than any of its expounders. While it
is desirable to know the names which eminent men have given to
the various species of mollusks which we collect, it is still more im-
portant to know their nature, their habits, their food, stages of growth,
and changes, and to observe their motionsand conditions of activity or
repose. Where we cannot observe the living animal, we can at least
study the shell, and notice its points of resemblance to others, also its
differences ; we can examine its structure, test its composition, note
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its variation in different specimens, and endeavor to find out for
ourselves its prevailing form and characteristics.
It may be that our investigations will lead us to conelusions differ-
ing from those which are commonly held ; in which case we have a
right.to modestly hold and express them, until the uncertain points
are settled.
Finally, the motives which should induce us to study and collect
shells are varied; but among them may be mentioned the laudable
desire to possess a series of objects which are of great beauty, both
in outline and in color; next, the wish to learn the form, nature, and
habits of the creatures which belong to one of the great sub-king-*
doms of the animate world; then an endeavor to study the questions
relating to the real meaning of the terms genus, species, and variety ;
how far they are natural and how far artificial ; and lastly, to study
modern mollusks so that we may be fitted to understand and inter-
pret the numerous fossil shells which figure so extensively in the
geological records of this grand old planet.
NOTES ON SOME NORTHERN PUPIDAE WITH DESCRIPTION
OF A NEW SPECIES.
BY DE. Vi. SEER
Of late, I have received, from a number conchologists in different
parts of the country, many valuable Pupidae, partly sent for
examination or determination, partly in exchange or cheerfully
given for my collection, which now contains about 575 lots (of N.
Am. Pupidae). But I need many more, especially of some difficult
and doubtful species and groups, for a thorough study of this family.
A part of these newer acquisitions are of so much importance, either
systematically, or in habits, that a few notes about them may
be welcome to the student of our malacological fauna. The latter
becomes more and more interesting, as our knowledge of the
distribution of the species is widening and their varieties and local
forms are more numerous. But also new species have been found,
and more doubtless will follow, as was and is to be expected from the
immense area of our country, of which only a small part has been
thoroughly investigated as to these little creatures.
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Some species and groups are omitted here, although I have received
highly valuable materials of them, partly because they need being
studied further, partly as I intend to treat them separately.
Pupa fallax Say.
This species has been collected, in typical form, on Curacao
(Mazyck Coll), a fact which may prove, that P. modica Gld. is not
only a southern form of fallax.
Pupa arizonensis.
The shells sent out under this name by Gabb, or at least most of
them, are known to be nothing else than P. fallax, e. g., those in
Smithsonian Inst. Coll., in Coll. of the Acad. of Philadelphia. When
I found nothing else, in several of the richer private collections, I also
began thinking that P. arizonensis was nothing else than a synonym
of fallax, in spite of the description and even more the figure in
Binney’s work, which seemed to point to something of another kind.
But since I have seen the (only) type specimen of that fig, in B. &
B. Coll. (Central Park Mus., N. Y.), I know that there is really
such a thing as P. arizonensis existing. The specimen is somewhat
weathered, somewhat grayish-white, the epiconch lost—so that the-
original color cannot be determined exactly—but otherwise in
good condition. It is best compared with P. corticaria, of the same
shape, but larger (alt. 3, 5 m.), has no trace of lamellze, and a thick-
ened lip. Now, a short time ago, I received, by the kindness of Mr.
L. B. Elliott, of lowa City, a few examples of this same species. They
had been collected, as Mr. E. writes, “at Siligman, Arizona, by an
entomological friend, in the nests of large and fierce ants, used as
materials to build the nests.” They were also somewhat weathered,
but fair. And again Mr. Elliott sent me a number of Pupidae,
collected at Albuquerque, New Mexico, highly valuable things,
among which there were 2 examples of our species, in the same
condition. One of the Arizona specimens still bears its epiconch
and the color is a pale horn; all have rather fine, remote, rib-like
strize, more crowded near the aperture.
A controversy may arise about the name: Whether Gabb has seen
this shell, is not sure, but very,improbable; his own deseription’—
not to speak of the originals mentioned above—doubtless refers not
to this species, but a form of P. fallax, not differing even as a var. from
the type. On the other hand there is no doubt but that the deserip-
ly Am Journ. Concha Ll; p. so) .Ochalloou.spl. 21, f. Gr
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tion and figure in Binney’s work represent this species, and conse-
quently are the first authentic publication. Thus, in my opinion,
we have to write: P. arizonensis Binney.
Pupa holzingeri Sterki.
_ This species has a very wide range of distribution in the north-
west and west. I found 2 exa. among Pupidae from Helena, Mont.,
sent by Mr. T. B. Elliott, and one in the lot already mentioned
from Albuquerque, N. M., not much different from Ilinoisexa. In
this regard it seems to resemble its relatives, P. contracta and also
armifera which are remarkably constant ail over the country,
while some other species show a decided variability even in the same
place.
Pupa curvidens Gould.
From my studies, during about 5 years, of my own exa. (22 lots
of curvidens 34 of pentodon from all over the country) and a good
many other collections, altogether thousands of specimens, I became
satisfied that this species is to be taken up and separated from P.
pentodon Say. It is smaller, almost always more slender, and the
whorls are more slowly increasing, so that the last is relatively smaller
and less predominating than in pentodon. Quite generally, there is,
on the palatal wall near the aperture, a marked crest, and behind that
an impression, deepest at the place of the inferior palatal lamella.
The lamellz are nearly the same in both, and decidedly variable as to
their number (except the typical, apertural, columellar, basal and
the two palatals) but by far more so in curvidens than in pentodon.
A marked difference is in the station of the two. While pentodon
prefers low, moist localities, in company of Vertigo ovata, most
Hyalinias, the tumid, smooth form of Carychium (exiguum Say),
curvidens is found more in “upland” places, even on banks, steep
slopes, together with Vert. bollesiana Morse, Hyalinia exigna
Stimpson and the slender, regularly striated Carychium, where rarely
or never a Vertigo ovata will be found. It is our commonest Pupa,
here and in other parts of Ohio. P. cincinnatensis Judge is identical
with it.
Ona gravelly bank at New Philadelphia there is a peculiar form of
our species; long, slender, nearly cylindrical, with only 5 typical
lamellze, no accessory ones ; the color is somewhat greenish, and in
weathered specimens not so white as in the type. The same form
has been collected at Sewanee, Tenn., by Mr. Sanderson Smith, with
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the common, or typical, form ; and it probably will be found elsewhere.
It is so characteristic that I thought it not out of the way to name
it var. gracilis.
P. curvidens is found nearly everywhere east of the Rocky
Mountains, but it seems to go not quite so far west and north as
pentodon does.
(To be continued.)
GENERAL NOTES.
A party of naturalists from the Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia sailed from New York on the 16th of February, for
Yucatan and Southern Mexico. Extensive collections. of plants,
mollusks, birds, insects, ete., will be made, and voleanic and other
geological phenomena studied. Prof. Heilprin, Messrs. Stone, Ives,
Baker and Leboutillier make up the personnel of the party.
We are indebted for the illustrations in this number of the
Nautitus to Dr. W. D. Hartman, of West Chester, Pa., author of
the excellent little book, ‘‘ Conchologia Cestrica,’—now becoming
scarce—and of numerous papers on Partula and Achatinella, Some
months ago we had the pleasure of going over the Doctor’s collec-
tion of these beautiful shells. In completeness it is certainly one of
the first rank, surpassing, probably, any other collection of these two
genera. In Helicina, Melania and South Sea Helices it is also very
rich.
Prof. H. A. Warp, of Rochester, N. Y., spent a few hours with
us recently. During the past year Prof. Ward has collected exten-
sively on the West Coast of South America and visited the Exposi-
tion at Paris.
Wanvrep.—Correspondents interested in Corbiculidae. Also
Helices of Cumberland subregion. Offered: Limnaea Adelinae,
Glyptostoma Newberryanum, Lucapina erenulata, Monoceros pancilira-
tum, ete. Epwarp W. Roper, Revere, Mass.
Errara.—lIn the January Navuriius the following corrections
should be made:
p- 102, 10th line from top, for “ West” read “ Wet.”
p. 102, 5th line from bottom, for “Chester” read “ Custer.”
p. 103, 20th line from top, for “ West” read “ Wet.”
A blunder also oceurs in the name of Mr. M. Burton Williamson,
University P. O., Cal.
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VoL. III. MARCH, 1890. ; No. 1].
ON A NEW SPECIES OF TYLODINA
BY WM. H. DALL.
In my Report on the Blake Gasteropods I have (p. 60, pl. xiv,
figs. 9, 10) described and figured a shell, which, in the absence of the
soft parts, I was obliged to refer doubtfully to the young of Um-
braculum or Tylodina, under the head of “ Umbraculwm bermudense
Morch?”
This shell now proves to be a genuine Tylodina, different from the
species of the Mediterranean or of California, and which may take
the name ot 7. americana. The shell which was well figured as
above, in life has a membranous extension 3—5mm. wide around the
margin, continuous with the epidermis. The latter is smooth and
pale with radiating broad purplish rays of color. The animal
is much smaller than that of 7. Rafinesqui in proportion to the shell,
which abundantly covers it, and it emits a dark purple dye. It
does not seem to differ essentially in the superficial characters of its
soft parts from the species of the Mediterranean, which, however, has
not been very well figured. The gill is attached to the edge of
mantle on the right side. The other characters are much as stated
in H. & A. Adams’ generic description of the genus (Gen. Ree.
Moll. II, 42).
The Blake specimen was obtained off Havana, dead, in 80 fathoms.
The present specimen was obtained on the northern border of the
Gulf of Mexico by the U.S. Fish Commission at Station 2406, in 26
fathoms, coarse sand and broken coral, on the line between the
mouth of the Mississippi River and Cedar Keys, Florida.
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This enables us to add this interesting genus to the fauna of the
United States. Ata more convenient season I hope to describe and
figure the soft parts and dentition, but at present can only notify the
conchological world of its discovery and identification.
A NEW AMERICAN BULIMULUS.
BY H. A. PILSBRY.
Some weeks since Mr. Averell, Business Manager of the NauTiLus,
placed in my hands examples of a Bulimulus differing notably from
all other American species, and which, in his opinion, was new.
Upon writing to Mr. G. H. Ragsdale, of Gainesville, Texas, from
whom the first specimens were obtained, I received six more in
addition to Mr. Averell’s. I propose for the new form the name
Buxuimutus Racspaver. It is about the size and form of B.
schiedeanus mooreanus W. G. B., but rather more slender and
elevated. The surface is not smooth, as in other American Bulimuli,
but strongly ribbed-striate longitudinally. The apex is blunt ; outer
lip thickened within ; columella reflexed over the narrow but open
umbilicus. The aperture is less than half the entire height of shell.
Whorls 63.
Alt. 22, diam. 10 mill.; alt. of aperture 103, diam. 7 mill.
Color, brownish corneous, somewhat translucent, the riblets opaque
white.
Mr. W. G. Binney writes as follows of the specimens submitted to
him:
“There is in my mind no’ doubt of their deserving a specific
name—unless, indeed, you are in possession of examples showing a
gradual change from the usual sculpturing to these ribs. It is not
often one gets so interesting a form to describe! Is it not nearer to
dealbatus than Schiedeanus ?”
No specimens showing a transition to B. dealbatus or schiedeanus
were found; nor have I ever seen any, although I have collected
thousands of Bulimuli in Texas and examined many hundreds more
collected by Singley, Sampson and others, from Kansas and Arkansas
to the Rio Grande. Mr. Ragsdale writes me the circumstances of its
finding as follows:
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“T send by this mail more of the Bulimulus you ask about; they
are all dead shells. I could find no living ones ; and have found these
only in Cook and Montague Counties, Texas, at the top of the Red
River Bluff, associated with the small shell (He/icina orbiculata)
inclosed. The large Helix inclosed (H. roemeri) was at the foot of
Bluff in the Red River Bottom. The Bulimulus was discovered by
myself one mile north of St. Jo, Texas, in 1888, and again at the
lower end of Warren’s Bend, 25 miles N. W. of Gainesville, Texas,
December 28, 1889.”
An illustration will be given later.
ON SOME NORTHERN PUPIDZ, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF
NEW SPECIES.
BY DR. V. STERKI.
Pupa pentodon, Say.
Not very much is to be added to the foregoing. It may be said,
that this species is not so generally found with such a pure glassy
shell, as curvidens when fresh and living, but more or less opaque
or spermaceti white. It is decidedly variable in size and also in
shape, being shorter, and more tumid or conical, in decidedly wet
localities. I have a specimen from Helena, Mont. (Mr. Elliott), and
several from Ottawa, Ont. and Winnipeg, Manitoba (sent by Mr.
Geo. W. Taylor). Those from the latter locality are long and
slender with a very strong callus inside of the parietal wall, in which
the lamelle are in appearance nearly buried.
Pupa Pilsbryana n. sp.
Among a few examples of the smaller form of ‘“ Pupa hordacea
Gabb ” now described by Mr. Pilsbry as hordeacella from Arizona, in
Mr. W. G. Mazyck’s collection, there was one specimen of an evidently
new species, well formed and mature, and fresh although dead.
Possibly there are more such in lots of the species mentioned above
and sent out by Gabb. A few days ago among Pupide from Albu-
querque I found 4 examples, although somewhat different, evidently
being of the same species, which consequently is confirmed. Known
from the region of the Rio Grande del Norte, and that of the
Colorado River, and being doubtless distinct from all the species de-
scribed, it is to be brought to general knowledge under a new name,
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for which I propose that of Mr. Pilsbry, the active student of our
Pupidee, to whom I am indebted for a number of valuable specimens
and facilities to examine such.
Description: Shell minute, narrowly perforate, cylindrical-oblong
to cylindrical, somewhat attenuated towards the rather blunt apex,
colorless (when fresh glassy) with a very delicate bluish tint, smooth
and polished, with few, irregular, microscopic striae which are more
marked near the aperture. Whorls 43-53 moderately rounded with
a rather deep suture especially in the upper half, regularly and
slowly increasing, the embryonal being relatively large, the last some-
what ascending toward the aperture; the latter of moderate size,
lateral, subovate, margins approached, peristome somewhat expanded
without a thickened lip or a callus in the palatal wall; outside is a
barely perceptible trace of a crest near the margin and behind that a
slight impression most marked upon the inferior palatal fold.
Lamelle 4 or 5; one apertural, rather high of moderate length,
simple; one columellar, horizontal, of moderate size, simple ; basal
very small or wanting; palatals the typical, inferior deeper seated,
of moderate size, superior small or very smail.
Alt. 1.5-1.7 ; diam. 0.8-0.9mm.
There is a slight variation ; the example from New Mexico being
of lesser diameter, and having no trace of a basal lamella.
The soft parts have not been seen so far, but will be of high interest,
since, to judge from the shell, our species seems to be an intermediate
form between the hordeacella, etc., group, and P. curvidens, especially
its var. gracilis.
P. Pilsbryana has much resemblance in shape and size to small,
albino examples of P. hordeacella Pilsb.,. but, under a glass, is at once
distinguished by the shorter, simple apertural lamella not ending at
or very near the upper termination of the palatal margin, as it
is in hordeacella, and by the smooth surface; the fine bluish hue
may also be a distinguishing, character if it prove constant.
Vertigo (?) variolosa Gould.
So far as I know, no specimen of this species from the continent
is existing now in collections, that or those in the B. & B. collection
having been lost sometime; but in the same, among a number of P.
contracta Say, from Jamaica, one has been detected lately. Mr.
Henry Moores of Columbus, Ohio, has had one example from Cuba,
collected some 35 years ago by John Bartlett, and he was kind enough
to lend itto me. Itis more conical than in the figure and there are two
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lamellz in the palatal wall, yet there is hardly a doubt but that it
represents Gould’s species. Messrs. Geo. W. & P. B. Webster took
much pains, last fall and winter, on their trips in eastern Florida, to
secure specimens, but so far did not sueceed. | Whoever visits the
Peninsula should look after it.
From the whole configuration and especially the lamelle, variolosa
appears to be a Vertigo.
Vertigo gouldii Binn.
The true V. gouldii* has been collected at Helena, Mont., by Mr.
I. B. Elliott, and at Ottawa, Ont., by Mr. Geo. W. Taylor; from the
latter place in 2 somewhat differing forms. To mention it here, my
V. callosa has not been found South of New York, nor west of
middle Ohio, so far, to my knowledge, and among hundreds of small
Pupide collected in Northeastern Ohio, by Mr. A. Pettingell, there
was no example of that species.
Vertigo binneyana Sterki.
When this species was first published, ? I had only 2 examples
from Helena, Mont., and 2 from Winnipeg, Manitoba, but was
satisfied that it is a distinct form Since then I have seen 2 from
Glendive, Mont., and one from Albuquerque, N. Mex., the latter
differing somewhat from the northern example, but unmistakably
ranging with them, Thus it seems to live in the whole region of the
western mountains.
Vertigo bollesiana Morse.
Specimens have been collected at Sewanee, Tenn., the most
southern habitat on the continent I know of, by Mr. Sanderson
Smith. But a short time ago I saw, in a number of P. servilis Gld.,
from St. Croix, W. I., one example of this species, with rather strong
lamelle. Whether it was collected with its companions or later
accidently mixed in, is hardly to be decided otherwise than by other
specimens brought from the West Indies.
The species is variable. Most examples from New York, Ohio, etc.,
are of goodsize, regularly striate, and of chestnut color, while those from
New England and Canada are generally smaller, lighter in color and
scarcely striate or nearly smooth ; the inferior columellar (or “basal’’)
lamella is sometimes quite small or even wanting. A peculiarity of
1 Sterki, four new Vertigo sp.in Proc. Acad. Phila., 1890.
Zee Ce
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this species is a very small, nodule-like supra-apertural lamella; but
by no means constant, very often just a trace or entirely wanting. In
its European equivalent, V. substriata Jeffr., this lamella is well
formed and constant.
ON THE GENERIC POSITION OF ARION FOLIOLATUS, GOULD.
BY T. D. A. COCKERELL.
After remaining unknown and almost mythical for nearly forty
years, the Arion foliolatus of Gould has been rediscovered by Mr.
Henry Hemphill, in Washington Territory. Specimens were sent to
Mr. W. G. Binney, which had been found near Gray’s Harbor and
at Olympia, and which are referable to two different forms, as follows
Arion foliolatus Gould, type. One specimen agreeing with Gould’s
description and figure, from Olympia.
Arion foliolatus var. hemphilli W.G. Binney. Six specimens
from Chehalis River, near Gray’s Harbor. These slugs are described
by Mr. Binney as “ Bright yellow with bluish-black foot and edge
of foot ; reticulations dark reddish fawn.” The genitalia also differ
in some details from the type, but this may be partly due to a differ-
ent degree of maturity.
Mr. Binney has kindly sent me the internal shell, genitalia, and
skin of the typical example, as well as drawings of both, and copious
notes, and at his request I offer a few remarks on the generic position
of the species.
From the material I have examined, I should certainly have
regarded the slug as a Prophysaon with affinities to P. hemphilh.
But the Oy ppl couple has lost the end of its body, * and the
1 Mr. Bonphill in his Teeter: to Mr. Binnens es of this example :—‘*When
I found the specimen I noticed a constriction about one-third of the distance between
the end of the tail and the mantle. I placed the specimen in a box with wet moss
and leaves, where it remained for 24 hours. When I opened the box to examine
the specimen I found I had two specimens instead of one. Upon examination of
both I found my large Prophysaon had cut off his own tail, at the place where I
noticed the constriction, and I was further surprised to find the severed tail piece
possessed as much vitality as the other part of the animal. The ends of both parts
at the point of separation were drawn in as if they were undergoing a healing proc-
ess.’ When the box containing the slug reached Mr. Binney, the tail-piece was
decomposed.
Oo”
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special generic character, the caudal mucus pore, is lost. This, how-
ever, undoubtedly existed, for it is indicated in Gould’s description,
and Mr. Binney informs me that it is present in the examples of var.
hemphilli from the banks of Chehalis River. Hence the slug cannot
be a Prophysaon, and the question arises, is it an Arion? From the
peculiar reticulation, the position of the genital orifice, the shape of
the penis-sac, and the general character of all its parts, I think we
may safely say that it cannot be placed in Arion, nor does it agree
with any other described genus. We have therefore no option but
to propose a new generic name for it.
Phenacarion! n. ¢.
Animal limaciform, tapering, resembling a Prophysaon, but
possessing a.caudal mucus pore or pit. Respiratory orifice on right
anterior side of mantle, about one-third of its length from the ante-
rior border. The mantle conceals a thin and subrudimentary cal-
-careous plate, easily fractured. The sole is not differentiated into
parts. Genital orifice behind right tentacle. Jaw with numerous
ribs. Penis sac elongate, cylindrical, thick, not tapering.
The mantle of Phenacarion foliolatus is quite long, with the shell
situated near the respiratory orifice. There are black markings and
spots as figured by Gould. The body has large elongate or
irregular reticulations, the interspaces being minutely reticulated to
give the foliated effect on which the specific name was based. The
edge of the foot has dark transverse lines, alternating with paler
lines, much as in Arion ater. The sole is transversely and some-
what obliquely grooved, but there is no separate locomotive disc.
The jaw has about 23 ribs, denticulating either margin. The
genitalia are much like Prophysaon, and decidedly different from
Arion. The testicle (ovotestis) is somewhat subdivided. The vas
deferens enters at the end of the penis sac.
Mr. Binney’s notes concerning the typical P. foliolatus give
“oeneral color of animal reddish-fawn, also of reticulations. On
the lower edge of the mantle, along the back from end of mantle to
tail, and above the edge of the foot, is a lighter band, and also on top
of neck almost to base of tentacles. The light band on edge of
mantle is irregularly speckled with reddish dots. Mantle minutely
tuberculated. The oblique perpendicular lines on edge of foot
alternate wide and narrow.”
- pa anaes rue
phénax—an impostor; Arion.
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Phenacarion might almost be a variety of Prophysaon hemphilli,
except for the generic character. Possibly Prof. E. D. Cope would
regard this as an instance of “the same specific form” existing
“though a succession of genera,” which he has regarded as probable
in his “ Origin of the Fittest” (quoted by Wallace, “ Darwinism,” p.
421). Indeed, it not very rarely happens that almost the only
difference between two species is a generic one. Good instances of
this are afforded among the Hymenoptera, e. g., the resemblance of
Vipio coloradensis Ashm., to Agathis vulgaris Cress., is almost exact
on superficial examination. Except the generic and family char-
acters, the Agathis is only a little larger with entirely fuscous wings,
and the posterior femora and tibiz mostly orange—peculiarities
which might elsewhere be varietal only.
Norr.—Mr. Cockerell writes me that he now regards Phenacarion
as a subgenus of Prophysaon—Ed.
A FEW LAST WORDS ON CREPIDULA.
BY JOHN FORD.
In my article on Crepidula published in the 8th number of the
Naurtiuuvs, I endeavored to show that the shells described by Say as
C. glauca were altogether distinct from the C. fornicata of Linné,
and therefore the name should have been retained in Bulletin No. 30
of the National Museum recently published by Dr. Dall, instead of
discarded. As in the following number their distinctness from forni-
cata was acknowledged by Dr. Dall, no further evidence seems
necessary to sustain it.
The assertion by him however in the same issue, that the series of
shells presented by me to the National Museum under the name of
CO. glauca “are distinct from C. fornicata but that they do not show
the characters called for by Say’s description,” does, perhaps,
challenge further remark ; since it appears to be partly correct and
partly conjectural. They are certainly not C. fornicata, but they as cer-
tainly do embody every character called for by Say’s description of the
true C. glauca written in 1821-2, and published in Vol. 2, Journal
of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ; also in Say’s
Conchology of the United States.
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It is possible, as Dr. Dall asserts, that the series in question are
depressed specimens of C. convera ;—the extreme convex form of
which he supposes to be caused by growing on the rounded surfaces
of small univalves, but I do not think it at all probable.
Quite a number of those in my own collection were taken from
small univalves but they are precisely the same in character as the
series alluded to, and, like them, are labeled C. glawea, Say. Asa
matter of fact the peculiarly arched forms known as C. convexa are
very rare on our immediate coasts, while those described as C. glauca
are comparatively plentiful.
Why should there be this disparity in numbers? It surely cannot
be for the want of those “roosting conditions” so needful to the
growth of C. convexa, since it is well known that the small univalves
of our region greatly outnumber the large ones.
Though many hundreds of the former have been examined by me
I have never seen a C. convexa upon them. I have also scanned
every available point on the New Jersey coast scores of times within
the last twenty-five years, and during all of that period have secured
but six specimens (all dead), corresponding to Say’s description of
C. convexa.
This fact of course proves nothing; nevertheless, until further
evidence to the contrary is adduced I shall deem it prudent to con-
sider them two distinct and well-marked species.
Should they, however, eventually prove to be the same, even
then, as my friend, Mr. H. A. Pilsbry, has stated, the name C. glauca,
having precedence over C. convera in Say’s original paper, must
always stand for the type form, and be entitled therefore to a“ place
of honor ”’ in all monographs of the genus.
Young Collectors’ Department.
COLLECTING LAND SHELLS IN EASTERN NEW YORK.
BY W. S. THEATOR.
(Continued from February No.)
More careful hunting under the logs will bring to light good
specimens of Zonites arboreus, indentatus, and viridulus; the last
two rather scarce. Also a few Zonites fulvus, H. labyrinthica and
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pulchella, and Pupa contracta ; but they are more partial to swampy
situations, and with other small species are found in great numbers
in certain places farther back in the country. Just one dead shell
of nitidus has been taken—near the water, and it would seem to be a
splendid locality for them. The albolabris is worthy of special
mention on account of the superior size to which they attain: very
seldom are they less than 30 mill. in diameter, while one shell
measures 36. The H. palliata also are very perfect.
From the lower end of these woods to the ‘ Vly’ is but a short
distance; a long narrow strip of woodland lies on the north side of
the causeway and forms the entire south shore of the cove. Here
the conditions are much different ; the ground is not over a foot or
two above the high tides, and portions of it are occasionally
inundated. The soil is of rich black mould with clay substratum,
and has produced a dense growth of trees, principally elm; and a
luxurious, almost tropical, undergrowth of shrubbery, ferns, and
weeds.
Here lives and flourishes a colony of Succinea obliqua that is
peculiarly interesting. During the warm months, May, June, July
and August, they are wonderfully abundant. After the rains they
are swarming over everything; feeding on the decaying rubbish,
crawling on the weeds and bushes, going up the trunks of trees, and
disporting themselves generally as if they really enjoyed their
existence. Sometimes I have observed eighteen or twenty large
fellows gathered around the foot of a tree as if on the point of a
forward march of ascension. They never go very high however; I
have not noticed them beyond five or six feet from the ground. Nor
do they confine their attention to the woods; for in an adjacent large
meadow many of them may be found traveling in the deep grass, some
as much as a third of a mile away on the hillsides. So congenial are
all the conditions surrounding them that they grow to surprising pro-
portions; the best shells average 24 to 25 millimeters, often exceed-
ing this. I have recently obtained one that is 28 mill. long. Mr.
Pilsbry, to whom J sent a few specimens, says of them, “they are
simply phenomenal in size.”” Mr. Binney tells me one rarely meets
such large ones. The greatest length he mentions in his Manual of
American Land Shells is 25 mill. Toward the latter part of
summer the older ones die off rapidly, and late in the fall very few
of them can be seen—but some of course survive the winter, while
plenty of young will be left in the field for another year, which
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hibernate so carefully that one is amazed when spring opens to find
such armies of them.
Living along with Succinee are H. thyroides and alternata ; shells
of the former quite pretty, some of them delicate
pink color, and a number of specimens are encir-
cled with two or three bands of white, seem-
ingly eroded. Maerocylis coneava and Zonites
fulvus also occur. Pupe are scarce ; I have only
seen a few contracta and pentodon. In the
wettest parts of the woods, in the moss, great numbers
of Pomatiopsis lapidaria can be gathered; also
Carychium exiguum; and in the cove and river in
the near vicinity are twenty or more species of fresh water shells,
many of them of excellent quality.
H. thyroides.
During the early part of the present winter, as frosty days were
quite the exception, I visited ““ Almont”
frequently for collecting, all of them
delightfully suecesssful trips. © Have
: gleaned much of interest regarding the
Selemites: concava: hibernation of the different snails there
found. Here are my notes for the 7th of January this year:
“ Particularly numerous at this time are H. palliata, though not so
easily found asin summer. ‘They are invariably closed with the
epiphragm, lying aperture upward, looking very pretty when first
exposed to the light, their pearly white lips contrasting beautifully
with the dark epidermis. Old bark nests seem to be a favorite place
for them to congregate for winter. Sometimes they will be found
singly, often five or six grouped together; and at times as many as
twenty or thirty distributed about a single little vicinity. A situa-
tion of this sort is often chosen by H. monodon (fraterna) ; this
species can thus be found to the extent of twenty or more individuals
in a cluster wintering along with H. palliata. Once in a while the
collector is pleased by the finding of a large Zonites fuliginosus
< buried his whole depth in the ground, and
nothing visible save the membranous covering
over the aperture. H. albolabris, usually so
plentiful in the warm season is now apparently
a —
very scarce ; not over a half dozen live ones found
Z. fuliginosus. this winter, and they were among the leaves, par-
tially imbedded. In another wood near here the boys while raking
133% THE NAUTILUS.
leaves late last fall obtained for me about one hundred specimens
hibernating in the same way. H. thyroides at this time is occasionally
gotten here and more especially at the ‘ Vly,’ mostly buried in the
earth. In a few instances I find the animal out and crawling, ob-
served them to-day, and on the 26th of December. A cluster of
very well-developed fulvus was obtained on the latter date under
stones near tide water. A goodly quantity of S. ovalis was gathered
a while ago, among and attached to broken rushes between the tides
(dormant); but their number has greatly decreased since last
summer.”
Thus the region is more than doubly interesting to the conchologist,
and it is one of the fields to which I have given considerable
attention.
Z. fuliginosus.
GENERAL NOTES.
The party of scientists in Mexico from the Academy of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia are now in the neighborhood of Vera Cruz.
When last heard from they were about to make an ascent of the
volcano of Orizaba ; after which they will travel inland.
I find Helix clausa abundant in vacant lots within the city limits
of St. Louis. Found a dozen last summer clinging to leaves of elder
berry bushes (Sambucus canadensis) at a height of six feet or more
from the ground.—G,. D. Liyp, St. Louis, Mo.
tL ae IN ATI ws.
VOL. III. APRIL, 1890. No. 12.
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW VARIETIES OF NORTH AMERICAN
LAND SHELLS.
BY HENRY HEMPHILL.
(1.) Patula strigosa Gld. var. subcarinata.
The shell in general form resembles a large coarse elevated or
depressed Cooperi. It has six whorls, well rounded above and
beneath, and subcarinated at the periphery. The body whorl has
two revolving dark bands, one above and the other below the
periphery ; sometimes the upper band spreads over the shell to the
suture forming a dark chestnut zone that fades out as it passes
toward the apex. ‘The lip is simple, thickened, its terminations
joined bya callus; aperture obliquely subangulate; the suture is
well impressed.
Height of the largest specimen 1 inch, breadth 13 inch.
Height of the smallest specimen ¢ inch, breadth 1 inch.
Habitat, Rathdrum, Idaho.
(2.) Patula strigosa Gld. var. bicolor.
This shell is a colored variety of the above.
It may be characterized as being of a general dark horn color
mingled with dirty white; there are occasional zones of dark horn
color above and fine dark lines beneath, but no defined bands. In
some of the specimens the light color prevails, in others the horn
color spreads over the shell in irregular patches.
Height ¢ inch, breadth 14 inch.
Habitat, Rathdrum, Idaho.
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(8.) Patula strigosa Gld. var. lactea.
This is a beautiful clear milk-white shell, with 53 whorls, sub-
carinated at the periphery. In the elevated forms the aperture is
nearly circular, as broad as high; but in the depressed forms the
aperture is broader than high, obliquely subangulate. The lip is
simple, thickened, its terminations joined by a heavy callus,—the
thickening of the lip and callus is a shade darker than the body of
the shell.
Height of the largest specimen 1 inch, breadth 14 inch.
Habitat, Rathdrum, Idaho.
The above varieties represent a colony of the largest specimens of
the Strigosa group that I haye collected. They are an important
and very interesting addition to the series, and serve to confirm my
previous views on the relationship of what I call the Strigosa group.
This colony inhabits open places in the dense pine forests of the
mountains, overgrown with deciduous bushes. They hibernate among
leaves, brush and roots of trees and in protected and secure places,
generally on the north slopes of the mountains.
(4.) Patula strigosa Gld. var. jugalis.
Shell umbilicated, depressed with numerous prominent oblique
strive ; spire very moderately elevated or depressed ; whorls 53 some-
what flattened above, but more convex beneath, the last falling in
front, with two dark revolving bands, one at the periphery and the
other above; the body whorl subearinated at its beginning but
more rounded as it approaches the aperture; suture well impressed ;
color ashy white with occasional horn colored stains ; umbilicus
large, pervious, showing the volutions; aperture oblique, ovate,
but in very depressed specimens the aperture is at right angles with
the axis of the shell; lip simple, thickened, its terminations approach-
ingand joined by a thick heavy callus, making the lip in very adult
specimens continuous.
Height of the largest specimens } inch, breadth 1 inch.
Height of the smallest specimens 75 inch, breadth +3 inch.
Habitat, Banks of Salmon River, Idaho.
This is another interesting form of the very variable strigosa. It
inhabits stone piles, and other places where it can find shelter and
protection against the fatal rays of the summer’s sun, close along the
banks of the river. It is interesting on account of its very depressed
form and the ovate form of the aperture, the heavy callus, join-
ing or “ yoking” together the extremities of the lip.
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(5.) Patula strigosa Gld. var. intersum.
Shell umbilicated, subleuticular, depressed, thin, dark horn color,
more or less stained with darker chestnut. Whorls 53 or 6, some-
what flattened above, more convex beneath, obtusely carinated at the
periphery and bearing numerous coarse oblique rib-like strize, and
two dark revolving bands; suture well impressed; umbilicus large,
pervious; aperture oblique, subangulated; lip simple, thickened,
its terminations joined by a thick callus.
Height of the largest specimen } inch, breadth # inch.
Height of the smallest specimen 75 inch, breadth 7; inch.
Habitat. Bluffs along the banks of little Salmon River, Idaho.
RemMarks.—This shell inhabits stgne piles at the foot of a steep
bluff back some distance from the river. It seems to be quite rare
as I found but few specimens during the two or three days of my
stay in its vicinity, and many of them were dead. I regard it as one
of the most interesting shells found by me during the season, for it
combines the depressed angulated or keeled forms of the Haydeni
side of the series, with the sculpturing of Idahoensis, two shells
representing opposite characters in every respect. It thus becomes
the companion of Wahsatchensis, a beautiful shell combining the
same characters, but much more developed and connected with the
large elevated forms. Var. intersum fills the opposite office by
uniting these characters with the small depressed forms. Taken as
a whole, this series of shells as now completed, seems to me to offer
the best guide or key to the study of species that the student can
have. Every known external character belonging to the genus
Helix, is so gradually modified and blended with opposite characters,
that if one had the molding or making of the many and various
intermediate forms, he could scarcely make the series more complete
than nature has done herself.
NOTES ON SOME NORTHERN PUPIDAE WITH DESCRIPTION OFA
NEW SPECIES.
BY DR. V. STERKI.
Vertigo tridentata Wolf.
Has a wide distribution in the northern part of the country ;
originally found in Illinois, it has been collected in different parts of
136 THE NAUTILUS.
Ohio and New York, as well as in- Minnesota and Colorado. In
general it is remarkably constant in its characters; yet there are
slight differences ; here I found a few examples from low ground,
together with V. ovata; they were a trifle larger, with a thicker and
deeper colored shell than those from upland places.
Vertigo Oscariana Sterki. }
In drift with numerous minute shells, from Guadalupe River,
Texas, kindly sent by Wm. A. Marsh, I found one specimen of this
species, which, consequently, is not confined to eastern Florida, where
it was detected by Messrs. Webster, but may be widely spread over
the southern part of our country.
It may be appropriate to add here some notes concerning a few forms
of Vertigo which, in my opinion, represent new species, but of which
the specimens extant are not sufficient for a formal publication. By
this, I expect to obtain, possibly, more material in order either to
confirm the species or refer the forms to their nearest relatives.
In 1887, Mr. A. A. Hinkley, of DuBois, Ill., sent me, with other
Pupide, one specimen of a Vertigo, probably new, and in 1889
another of the same; the said gentleman and Mr. Wm. A. Marsh
kindly forwarded me all their Pupide, for examination, but so far I
found no other example; yet I am satisfied such will be found. The
form is related to Vertigo evata and Gouldii, but different and is
characterized by the two palatal lamelle being close together, for
what reason I gave it the mss. name V. approximans.
Among several hundred small Pupide collected in Northeastern
Ohio (Summit and Lake counties) by Mr. A. Pettingell, there were
two examples of a doubtless new species, which I in the same way
named V. parvula. It is about of the size, shape and appearance
of V. (Angustula) milium Gld.; but ranges in quite another group,
having a quite simple palatal wall and margin, and only 3 lamelle.
In Texas, Vertigos seem to be decidedly rare. In many hundreds
of Pupide from that state Mr. J. A. Singley and Mr. Wm. A. Marsh
kindly forwarded me, there were only about half a dozen such ; a few
milium, one rugosula, m, one oscariana, as mentioned above, and
one specimen of a form which probably will prove to be a new
species of quite a peculiar formation.
a Tenict
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One single specimen of a decidedly new and interesting form was
among those Pupid from Albuquerque, N. M., sent by Mr. L. B.
Elliott. The whole formation is that of a Vertigo, but it is purely
albino (7%. e., colorless or white); the only one of this kind in the genus.
Its altitude is 1-6 mm.; the lamellze are nearly those of V. Binneyana,
but the palatal wall has quite a different configuration, and the whorls
except the last are regularly striate.
New Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 10, 1890.
ANNOTATED LIST OF THE SHELLS OF ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA.
BY C. W. JOHNSON.
Bythinella tenuipes Couper. Common in a small stream near the
city and at Tocoi on the St. John’s River.
Amnicola granum Say. Common in the upper part of Moultrie
Creek.
Paludina georgiana Lea. Common in tributaries of the St. John’s,
west of St. Augustine.
Campeloma lima Anth. Found with the above, but not as
plentiful.
Ampullaria depressa Say. Common with the two preceding
species. A less depressed variety is found in a swamp near Matanzas
Inlet.
Helicina orbiculata Say. Common.
Nerita peloronta L. One living specimen on the water battery of
‘Fort Marion.
Nerita versicolor Lam. Two living specimens. I believe this is
the most northern locality recorded for Nerita on the Atlantic Coast.
Neritina reclivata Say. Common at the mouth of small fresh water
streams. :
Neritina virginea L. A number of specimens found in brackish
water near Matanzas,
Fissurella alternata Say. Common.
Acteon punctatus @Orb. One specimen.
Tornatina canaliculata Say. Not common.
Aplysia protea Rang. Common at low-water on a bar at the
mouth of Hospital creek.
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Glandina truneata Gmel. Common. ‘This species is always
plentiful near the coast but rare in the interior.
Guppya gundlachi Pfr. Specimens were identified as this by Rev.
E. Lehnert.
Zonites (Hyalina) arboreus Say. Common.
Zonites (Hyalina) indentatus Say. Common.
Zonites (Hyalina) minusculus Binn. Not common.
Zonites (Hyalina) milium Morse. Found associated with Pupa
pentodon Say.
Patula ceca Guppy.
Patula ( Helicodiseus) lineata Say. Common.
Helix (Mesodon) jejuna Say. Common.
Helix ( Triodopsis) hopetonensis Shutt. Not common.
Helix (Polygyra) auriculata Say. Not common.
Felix (Polygyra) pustula Fer. Common near Matanzas.
Helix ( Polygyra) eereolus Muhlf. Common.
Helix (Polygyra) cereolus var. microdonta Desh. Common. It is
the form called H. carpenteriana Bland.
Helix (Polygyra) cereolus var. septemvolva Say. The large speci-
mens mentioned by Mr. Binney are common on the walls of Fort
Marion. This species varies so greatly that the separation of
varieties is merely a matter of selection and intermediate forms
remain which connect them together.
Helix (Strobila) hubbardi A. D. Brown. This species is common
on the trunks and limbs of orange trees in some parts of the city.
Bulimulus dormant W. G. Binney. -. — —____
VOL. IV.
MAY 1890 to APRIL 1891.
PHILADELPHIA :
Published by H. A. PILSBRY and C. W. JOHNSON. a ( ee
LAL
;t
lv INDEX.
Distribution of Unionidae in the Mahoning, Cuyahoga and
Tuscarawas Rivers.
Eastern New York Notes.
Edible Mollusks of Maine.
Goniobases, Remarks on Certain
Goniobasis Catenaria Say, Notes on
Haliotis.
Haliotis rufescens.
Haliotidae.
Helix introferens in N. J.
Helix hortensis in Nantucket.
Helix ptychophorus var. castanea Bieophill,
Helix tudiculata var. subdolus Hemphill.
Helix Carpenteri, New Variety of (Var. lndigoustey
Isaac Lea Chapter of the Agassiz Association.
Limax arborum from submaculatus f. noy.
Limnaea Pilsbryi n. sp.
Limnaea stagnalis var. occidentale Hemphill.
Limnaea columella in Phila. ;
List of Mollusca of Gloucester Co., N. J.
Lucapinella. :
Mayo, Edward Richards (Obituarm sy
Mollusks of the San Francisco Markets.
Mollusks of the United States. 3
Nanina, New Species of (N. Rigereabere geri Pilsbage
New Species of U. S. Land Shells.
New Forms of Western Limniades.
New Eocene Fossil from Texas.
New Varieties of Western Land Shells.
New Species of Limpet from Japan.
Notes on North American Pupide with Bieserinaee of New
Species.
Notes on Mr. Hemphill’: Gatalomnes
Notes on the Sculpture of American Limneeas, ete.
Omalax Singleyi, n. sp.
Origin of Species.
Ostrea gigas Thunberg. :
Patella (Helcioniscus) Stearnsii, n. sp.
Patula strigosa, New Varieties of ;
Pisidium, New American (P. Idahoénse Roper.)
112
124
59
102
24, 48
51, 63
INDEX. Vi
Physa ampullacea Gld. var. Columbiana Hemphill. 27
Polygyra Kiawaensis var. Arkansaénsis Pilsbry. z 131
Preservation of Color in Fossil Shells. ; : 30
Prophysaon. Why does it shed its tail? : : : 6
Publications Received. , , 2 23,36, 48, 72, 107
Pupa syngenes n. sp. : ; ‘ , : : : 3
Pupa Californica. . : : 8
Pupa Dalliana sp., nov... : , : : : 19
Pupidae, New Forms of American. . ; : : : 18
Pupidae, New United States... . : . ; : 39
Pupa Hemphilli sp. noy. . : : ‘ : ; : 27
Pupa Clementina sp. nov. : ; : : : ; 44
Sealpellum Stearnsii. ‘ : ‘ ; F 96
Shell Bearing Mollusca of Bhiode Tea. . . 22,.35, 46, 56, 70
Shells within City Limits. : : : : 82
Snail Eaters. . : : : : : ; : 132
Some American Garinibals. 85
Spheerium secure Prime, Notes on 39
Strength of Limpets. 32
Tebennophorus Hemphilli. : 95
Unionide of Ga., Ala., S. C. and La. in South Fiend 125
Urosalpinx perrugatus Conr., Remarks on 29
West American Notes. 67
Zonites Shimekii n. sp.. 3
INDEX TO CONTRIBUTORS.
Aldrich, T. H.
Baker, F. C. :
Boyce, Mrs. Sarah E.
Campbell, John H.
Carpenter, Horace F.
Dall, Dr. Wm. H.
Dean, Geo. W.
Ford, John
Fox, Wm. J.
Hemphill, Henry
Johnson, C. W.
Keep, Josiah
Keyes, Chas. R.
Leach, Dr. M. L.
Orcutt, Cok.
Pilsbry, H. A.
Raymond, W. J.
Roper, Edw. W.
Sampson, F. A.
Simpson, Chas. T.
Stearns, Dr. R. E. C.
Stein, Dr. Frederick
Sterki, Dr. V.
Teator, W.S.
Webster, G. W.
Winkley, Henry é
Williamson, Mrs. M. Bitton
Wright, Berlin H.
Wright, 8. Hart
Yates, De Lorenzo G.
3, 24, 49, D2, 63, 64, 100, 109, 194, 195, 127
25
29, 89, 115
71
et
29, 35, 46, 56, 70
87
20
75, 81, 85
113
9,15, 25, 41
6
1, 39, 85, 152
. 95, 132
7, 18, 27, 44, 50
66
85
112
32
61
; 125
51, 54, 63
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AN AMERICAN ANADENUS.
BY HENRY HEMPHILL.
Recently, on the Cuyamaca Mountains in San Diego County,
California, I was fortunate in finding specimens of what proved to
be a genus new to America. Submitting them to Mr. Binney and Mr.
Cockerell, they agreed with me in referring these species to Anad-
enus, formerly known of only from the Himalaya Mts.
The genus is characterized thus by Binney in his Genera of Slugs
—“ Animal limaciform, subcylindrical, tapering behind ; tentacles
simple; mantle anterior, concealing an internal shell-plate; no
longitudinal furrows above the margin of the foot, and no caudal
mucus pore; a distinct locomotive disk; external respiratory and
anal orifices on the right posterior margin of the mantle; orifice of
combined genital system behind and below the right eye peduncle.
Internal shell-plate small, oval, flat, with posterior nucleus and
concentric striz.
Jaw with numerous ribs.
Lingual membrane with tricuspid centrals, bicuspid laterals and
quadrate marginals.”
The genus differs from Prophysaon by its posterior respiratory
orifice, the position of the genital orifice and by its locomotive disk.
It will, however, be remembered that Fischer considers Prophysaon
a subgenus of Anadenus. The distinction between the two is slight,
especially as regards the respiratory orifice. The living slugs found
by me had it slightly posterior. In alcoholic specimens of this and
many of the Prophysaons it is difficult to detect its true position, so
nearly subcentral is it.
ANADENUS COCKERELLI, 0. sp.
Length contracted in alcohol 153 mill. Mantle 43 long, 2% wide.
End of mantle to end of body 8. Foot 2 wide. ° Foot with a loco-
motive disk, being distinctly differentiated into median and lateral
tracts. Respiratory orifice slightly posterior, on right edge of man-
tle. Genital orifice below right tentacle. No caudal mucus pore.
Locomotive disk narrow, only half the width of the lateral areas.
Sides of foot wrinkled, but not differentiated from lateral areas, nor
specially marked, the wrinkles-being a continuation of the transverse
grooves of the lateral areas. Mantle tuberculate rugose, oval in out-
line, bluntly rounded at either end, not grooved as in Amalia. Man-
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tle free in front as far as respiratory orifice. Back rather bluntly
keeled its whole length; rugz rather flattened and obtuse, consist-
ing of grooves inclosing mostly hexagonal lozenge-shaped spaces,
which are themselves rugose. Color, uniform brown-black without
markings, except some dark marbling on the lighter sides. The por-
tion beneath and in front of the mantle is pale, and the head and
neck have a gray tinge. Foot brown. Internal shell solid, easily
extricated without breaking.
Cuyamaca Mountains, San Diego Co., California.
Jaw low, wide, slightly arcuate, ends blunt, anterior surface with
about twenty wide, flat ribs, squarely denticulating either margin.
Lingual membrane short and narrow. Teeth 20-1-20, of which
eight only on either side are laterals. Centrals tricuspid, laterals
bicuspid, marginals quadrate, bluntly bicuspid.
Iam indebted to Mr. Binney and Mr. Cockerell for assistance
in preparing the above description.
TWO NEW SPECIES OF U. S. LAND SHELLS.
BY H. A. PILSBRY.
Zonites Shimekii Pilsbry. This is a larger form than Zonites
limatulus, much less depressed. The specimens are from the
Loess formation, at Iowa City, Iowa, collected by Prof. B. Shimek
and the writer some years ago. Being fossil, they lack color and
epidermis. The sculpture is similar to Z. limatulus.
Alt. 3, diam 6 mill.
Pupa syngenes Pilsbry. Shell subeylindrical but wider above,
composed of 8 narrow, convex whorls, sinistrally convoluted ; text-
ure as in P. muscorum, but color rather lighter brown. Last
whorl ascending, imperforate, bearing a strong high crest just behind
the outer lip. Aperture shaped as in muscorum, having a single
small parietal denticle. Alt. 37, diam. 13 mill.
Two specimens of this form are before me, and I am in doubt
-whether to give them a new name, as they may be only sinistral
monstrosities of the common P. muscorum. The shells are labeled
“ Arizona” in the Academy collection, collector not known.
[Since the above paragraphs were in type, I have received a com-
munication from my friend Dr. V. Sterki, to whom I sent a speci-
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men of P. syngenes, which I at first described as a variety of
muscorum. He says:
“T am satisfied that it is a species, and not a var. of muscorum :
the shape of the whole shell, the last whorl so considerably flattened,
and ascending, the number of whorls, seem to me to prove its spe-
cifical rank. * * ** After washing out the aperture of your specimen
I saw a rather strong lamella or tooth on the columella, and a
barely perceptible trace of an inter-palatal lamella, which however
is validified by the impression on the outside.” ]
ANNOTATED LIST OF THE SHELLS OF ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA.
BY C. W. JOHNSON.
Teredo nivalis L.
Pholas campechiensis Gmel. Single valves are common on the
ocean beach but living examples are rarely found.
Pholas costata L. Common.
Pholas truncata Say. A few specimens in the hard mud on
Anastasia Island.
Martesia cuneiformis Say. Common burrowing into coquina wood,
ete.
Solen americana Gould. Not common and smaller than those
from more northern localities.
Solen viridis Say. A few specimens.
Glycimeris refleca Say. One specimen with both valves intact was
found on a bar in the harbor.
Glycimeris americana Cony. (G. bitruncata Conr.) Single valves
are occasionally found on the ocean beach—apparently recent.
Mya arenaria L. A few single valves.
Corbula contracta Say. Common.
Mactra solidissima Dillw. var. similis Say. Common.
Macetra lateralis Say. Common.
Mactra braziliana Lam. (M. oblonga Say.) Not common.
Labiosa lineata Say. A few single valves on the ocean beach.
Labiosa canaliculata Say. Common.
Semele orbiculata Say. Common.
Abra aequalis Say. Common.
Cumingia tellinoides Conr. Not common.
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Tagelus gibbus Spengl. Common.
Tagelus devisus Spengl. Common.
Tellina alternata Say. Common.
Tellina polita Say. Common.
Tellina tenera Say. Common on the bar below the United States
Barracks.
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abundantly farther south, around
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Santa Barbara and San Diego. It
is really the most beautiful of the
three, though its shell is too thin
for some kinds of work. The
magnificently mottled green pearl
of the great muscle scar reminds
one of the full glory of a peacock’s
Be eplendene: expanded tail.
On the shores of central and northern California the other two
species abound. H. rufescens sometimes has a shell as large as a
dinner plate, but common specimens are only six or eight inches long.
The outer layer of the shell is of a red color, while the inner or na-
creous portion is beautifully iridescent. On account of their solid-
ity, the shells of this species are specially fitted for making jewelry
La and pearl ornaments. These mol-
SS lusks are captured by Chinese boat-
men, who row along near the rocks,
when the tide is low, and peer curi-
Ht \a\\ ously down into all the cracks and
f ‘he eS Li HE!) U4 clefts where these great creatures
Hi 5 | hide. When one is discovered, a
ia wedge on the end of a pole is em-
ployed to suddenly dislodge the poor
_mollusk from his strong hold, anda
boat-hook draws him up from the
water into the hands of his enemy.
The third species, H. Cracherodi
is the most common of all and is
also the [smallest, though it some-
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times assumes noble proportions. | You can find them under stones
or in out-of-the-way places among the rocks if you search wheu the
tideislow. All of these mollusks, in fact, are rock lovers, and it is
idle to seek for them except among the crags or broken boulders.
It is exceedingly interesting to capture a good-sized fellow and watch
his mode of locomotion. When placed on a smooth rock he moves
= along at no snail’s pace, but strides on
like an elephant. Not quite so fast, to
be sure, but the motion of his body,
slightly swaying from side to side, and
the tremendous muscular force which
he evidently exerts cause one to invol-
untarily compare his gait to that of the
great proboscidian. And as for that
matter, our mollusk also has a thick,
black proboscis, of no mean propor-
tions.
The Haliotis, in short, is the noblest
mollusk of our coast, if not of America.
ne oe. Of prodigious muscular power, quick
and active in movement, guided by keen instincts, supplying nour-
ishing food to man, and above all yielding a shell beautiful as the
rainbow, it deserves an honorable place in the list of our important
genera.
Very fine green pearls, almost rivaling the product of the pearl-
oyster are sometimes taken from its mantle, and when its superior
organization is considered, it is certainly far in advance of its head-
less neighbor. Every young collector should be sure to get good
specimens of California “abalone” shells and those who are fortu-
nate enough to visit the haunts of these creatures should endeavor to
learn more of their habits, and observe their curious structure and
interesting movements.
NEW VARIETIES OF PATULA STRIGOSA.
BY HENRY HEMPHILL.
Patula strigosa var. carnea.
Shell umbilicated, greatly depressed, dark horn-color, rather solid,
shining, surface somewhat uneven and covered with irregular
16 THE NAUTILUS.
oblique strive; whoris 53, convex, the last faintly subcarinated in
the depressed specimens, falling in front, sometimes faintly banded,
but most of the specimens are plain and without bands; spire sub-
conical, apex obtuse, suture well impressed, umbilicus laree ; aper-
ture circular ; lip simple, thickened, its terminations well approached
and joined by a callus.
Height 2 inch, greater diam {, lesser } inch. Habitat, near Salt
Lake, Utah.
Patula strigosa var. picta.
Shell umbilicated, elevated or globosely depressed, of a dirty white
color, stained more or less with chestnut ; surface somewhat rough
and uneven, covered with moderately course oblique striz and fine re-
volving lines; whorls 6, convex, subcarinated, with a broad white
band at the periphery and a dark zone of chestnut on the upper side,
extending from the peripheral band to the suture, fading out as it trav-
erses the whorls of the spire; beneath on the base of the shell it is
striped with numerous bands that sometimes extend into the um-
bilicus and also into the aperture ; spire elevated ; apex obtuse, sut-
ure well impressed, umbilicus moderately large and deep, broader in
the depressed than in the elevated forms; aperture nearly circular,
lip simple, subreflected, its terminations approaching and joined by
a thin callus.
Height ¢ inch, greatest diam. 14 inch, lesser 1 inch.
Habitat, Rathdrum, Idaho.
Patula strigosa var rugosa.
Shell umbilicated, elevated or slobeeely depressed, of a dull brown
ash color; surface rough, covered with coarse irregular oblique
strize, and microscopic revolving lines; whorls 5, convex, with or
without one or two narrow faint revolving bands. In most of the
specimens the bands are obsolete; spire elevated, obtusely conical ;
suture well impressed; umbilicus large, deep; aperture nearly
round, lip simple, thickened, its terminations approaching and joined
by a thin callus.
Height of the largest specimen } inch, greatest diam. 1 inch.
Height of the smallest specimen + inch, greatest diam. } inch.
Habitat, New Brigham City, Utah.
A large rough robust form with very convex whorls; some of the
specimens so closely resemble H. solitaria Say, that one not well
acquainted with both forms would be easily deceived and refer it
to that species. In its adolescent state the lip is very thin or easily
THE NAUTILUS. 17
broken, and on the surface of the adult shells these fractures give it a
rough and uneven appearance.
Patula strigosa var. parma.
Shell broadly umbilicated, greatly depressed, of a dark dirty horn
color, surface somewhat rough, covered with coarse irregular striz, and
microscopic revolving lines; whorls 53 or 6, subcarinated through-
out, somewhat flattened above, rounded beneath, and striped with two
chestnut-colored bands, one above and the other justat the periphery ;
spire very little elevated, umbilicus moderately large and deep ; aper-
ture ovately round, oblique; lip simple, subreflected, its terminations
approaching and joined by a thin callus.
Height 2 inch, breadth 1 inch.
Habitat near Spokane Falls, Washington.
Patula strigosa var. hybrida.
Shell umbilicated, depressed, white, spire horn-color, surface of
the shell covered with fine oblique strive, and widely separated re-
volving raised lines; whorls 5, flattened above, rounded beneath,
the last falling in front, and striped with two faint chestnut bands,
suture well impressed ; umbilicus large, showing nearly all the volu-
tions; aperture nearly circular ; lip simple, thickened, its termina-
tions approaching and joined by a thin callus.
Height ¢ inch, diam. { inch, lesser ~ inch.
Habitat near Logan, Utah.
This is an interesting shell as it is the beginning of the forms of
strigosa that finally develope the revolving lines into prominent
ribs as seen on the surface of var. Haydenii Gabb.
Patula strigosa var. albida.
Shell broadly umbilicated, greatly depressed, white, tinged with
horn color; surface covered with fine oblique strize and fine
microscopic revolving lines; whorls 6, convex, the last falling in
front ; spire very little elevated, apex obtuse, aperture oblique, nearly
round; lip simple, thickened, subreflected at the columella, its ter-
minations approaching, joined by a thin callus.
Height 2 inch, greatest diam. 1 inch, lesser } inch.
Habitat near Logan, Utah.
Patula strigosa var. fragilis.
Shell umbilicated, elevated or globosely depressed, translucent, thin,
fragile, somewhat shining, of a dark horn color, surface covered by
fine oblique strize; whorls 5, convex, the last descending in front, and
18 THE NAUTILUS.
striped by two dark chestnut bands, one above and the other below
the periphery ; suture well impressed ; aperture oblique; lip simple,
thickened, umbilicus moderate, deep, partially covered by the re-
flected lip at the columella.
Height of the largest specimen ;; inch, greatest diam.
lesser { inch.
Habitat near Franklin, Idaho, among Red Sandstone.
A very thin and almost transparent variety of the very variable
strigosa. By its peculiar shade, it is very evident that the animal
has drawn largely from the red sandstone for the material to build
its shell.
inch,
or
NEW FORMS OF AMERICAN PUPIDE.
BY DR. V. STERKI.
Pupa Californica, varieties, continued.
4. From Monterey, Cal. In size not much different from the
type, yet a little smaller, and more generally obovate ; the striz are
less coarse; the peristome is slightly but distinctly expanded.
There is no superior palatal lamella, and the three present ones are
small, the columellar even a trace or wanting entirely. The form
may be named: var. trinotata.
5. From San Diego, Cal. The diminution of the lamelle is
going on; none but the apertural is left in this variety—diegoensis
and that even is quite small or a mere trace. In size and shape,
the examples are not much different from the Monterey form, which
is an intermediate one. In the relation of var. diegoensis and the
very distinct var. catalinaria, and also elongata on the neighboring
islands, there is a zoogeographical enigma, which may be solved in
connection with other facts.
6. From Rocklin, Cal. (Placer Co. 25 Ms. N. E. of Sacramento.)
Large, conic or ovate conic, or turriculate, umbilicated, rib-like
striz rather strong ; whorls 5, well rounded, with deep suture, the
last occupying more than 3} altit.; aperture suboyate or nearly circu-
lar, margins much approximate and the ends protracted, peristome
shortly but decidedly expanded ; lamella one, apertural, small. Alt.
2,5; diam. 1, 5 mill. For its size, rounded aperture and single
lamella I would name this form var. cyclops. It is with some doubt
THE NAUTILUS. 19
that I refer this form to P. californica: it might just as well be re-
garded as a distinct species. But for that there will be time if no
intermediate and connecting forms be found.
It will be of special interest to examine and compare the soft parts
of all these varieties or forms, anatomically as well as to the mode
of life.
Some conchologists may consider it to be useless or oven worse to
apply varietal names to the forms described above ; but we must try
to arrange them systematically as naturally as possible, according to
their relations among themselves and with kindred species ; and for
that purpose we must name them. And it is also for convenience ;
is it easier to say, in citing: “that variety of P. californica inhabit-
ing Santa Catalina and San Clemente Islands, much smaller than the
type, with lower whorls, lighter coloration, relatively coarser striation,
and well formed lamelle,” than simply designating it by a name?
Pupa Dalliana sp. nov.
Shell conic or ovate-conic, of greenish-horn color, transparent, finely
irregularly striate in the lines of growth, polished; whorls 42, well
rounded, with deep suture, rather rapidly increasing, the last occupy-
ing about @ of altit., towards the aperture somewhat ascending on the
penultimate. Aperture lateral, somewhat oblique, subovate with
just perceptibly flattened palatal margin; margins approximate, the
ends protracted ; peristome shortly but decidedly expanded, with a
very fine thread-like lip near the margin, the same continuing as a
very fine callus on the apertural wall inside of the line connecting
the ends of the margins; palatal wall quite simple; no lamellee.
Alt. 1. 2; diam. 1.3 mill.
This form has been collected by Mr. Hemphill near Clear Lake,
Lake Co., Cal., and I propose to name it in honor of Mr. Wm. H.
Dall. The specimens before me were fifteen, fresh, remarkably uni-
form in their whole appearance; all were more or less covered with a
dark brown, hard crust of slime and dirt, generally thickest around
the aperture. Doubtless this coating is done “ purposely” by the
animals, as in many other species also. When cleaned, it shows
about the size and shape of a well-grown Vertigo ovata, Say, but by
a good eye or under a glass is at once recognized as something else,
by the rounded aperture and the absence of lamelle.
—E
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DISTRIBUTION OF UNIONIDEH IN THE THREE RIVERS,
MAHONING, CUYAHOGA AND TUSCARAWAS.
BY GEO. W. DEAN, KENT, OHIO.
The table given below, while making no pretense to absolute ac-
curacy, is a fair approximation of the distribution of Unionide in the
three largest rivers and their tributaries in northeastern Ohio. AI-
though they afford us no peculiar species, unless it be the Unio Kirt-
landiana Lea of the Mahoning River, they still present some points
of interest. The reader must bear in mind that species are not found
equally distributed. Some may be found almost anywhere and
others at only.one place in a whole river. The Mahoning and
Tuscarawas Rivers are tributaries of the Ohio; the first through the
Beaver, the latter through the Muskingum. The Cuyahoga rises
about thirty-five miles east of Cleveland and empties into Lake Erie
at that city. Its course is southwest to within two or three miles of
Akron from which it is almost due north to its mouth. Through this
valley runs the Ohio canal, and this canal connects this river with
the Tuscarawas by a rise that required sixteen locks, the whole dis-
tance between the two rivers being about six or seven miles. It will
be seen by the following tabular statement that Unio ligamentinus,
rectus, rubiginosus and others are common to the Tuscarawas and
lower Cuyahoga, and entirely absent in the Mahoning and upper
Cuyahoga. Above the connection of the Cuyahoga with the canal
are several falls above which are found only five or six species, but
below there the number is largely increased by those named above and
a number of other Tuscarawas forms. The interesting question pre-
sented is, have these Tuscarawas forms been introduced through the
canal during its fifty or sixty years of existence? A list of the forms
found in streams that empty into Lake Erie, and have no connection
by canal or otherwise with the Ohio, might throw some light upon
the subject. In conclusion I will say that geographical distribution
is of paramount importance to the conchologist and collector, and
the least contribution to the limited knowledge of the subject we have
at present ought to be welcomed.
Mahoning River,
decora Lea,
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Cuyahoga River,
Anodonta.
Tuscarawas River.
plana Lea?
subcylindracea Lea, subcylindracea Lea, subcylindracea Lea.
edentula Lea,
imbicilis Say (very
rare),
pavonia Lea, Var.
(rare)
marginata Say,
rugosa Barnes.
circulus Lea,
clavus Lam (common),
coccineus Lea,
cylindricus Say,
fabalis Lea,
gibbosus Barnes,
iris (rare),
luteolus Lam.,
multiradiatus Lea,
occidens Lea,
(subovatus)
parvus (reservoirs)
Barnes,
phaseolus Hild.,
edentula Lea,
?
pavonia Lea (typical)
Above the falls.
Margaratana.
complanata Lea,
(canal)
wee wenn
marginata Say,
rugosa Barnes.
Unio.
alatus Lea,
cireulus? Lea,
coecineus Lea,
Noveeeboraci Lea,
luteolus Lam.,
multiradiatus Lea,
nasutus Say,
occidens Lea (rare),
parvus (reservoirs)
edentula Lea.
9
pavonia Var.
deltoidea Lea.
complanata Lea.
dehiscens Lea (rare).
Hildrethiana Lea
(rare).
marginata Say ?
rugosa Barnes.
alatus? Lea.
circulus Lea.
clavus Lam (rare).
coccineus Lea.
eylindricus Say.
gibbosus Barnes.
? ?
irroratus Lea.
Novzeeboraci Lea.
luteolus Lam (rare).
occidens (common)
perplexus Lea (rare).
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2D THE NAUTILUS.
pressus Lea, pressus Lea, pressus Lea.
s adis'as SReRGE a Ao Lae pustulatus Lea (rare),
saeine stated “AL T(E ) Sheer pustulosus Lea.
Se te a ite Soe pyramidatus Lea.
rangianus Lea, dees See rangianus Lea.
aves nase rubiginosus Lea rubiginosus Lea.
(common), (common).
OE SRA aE Se rectus Lam., rectus Lam,
Kirtlandiana Lea, 22. eee. ? ¢
Trseiakeeee ¢ ? subrotundus Lea.
triangularis Teas, 9. aaanSeames: triangularis Lea.
tuberculatus Barnes, ¢ ...0.520... tuberculatus Barnes.
undulatus@Barnes, 9. \.2xsees. undulatus Barnes.
VERTUGOSIIS “BARNES. 91 seceeeerarre verrucosus Barnes
(rare). Very large. (rare).
THE SHELL-BEARING MOLLUSCA OF RHODE ISLAND.
BY HORACE F. CARPENTER.
FAMILY UNIONID~.
189.— Unio radiatus.
Syns. :
Mya radiata, Gm. Dill. Wood.
Mya oblonga, Wood.
Lampsilis radiata, Stimp. Morse.
Unio Virginiana, Lam.
Unio radiata, modern authors.
Shell transversely oblong-ovate, broader and angular behind ;
beaks nearer the anterior extremity; epidermis concentrically
wrinkled, olivaceous with numerous lines of a greenish color radiat-
ing from the beaks to the margin; nacre bluish-white, irridescent
at the posterior portion, with flesh colored tints; cardinal teeth
strong, erect, triangular pyramidal. Length 5 inches, height ly,
breadth 14.
It inhabits ponds and rivers on the eastern slope of the Allegha-
nies and is quoted as being one of our most common species, but it is
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not the case in Rhode Island, being extremely local, though abundant
where found at all. Up to October of 1872, it had never been col-
lected in this State. I had frequently examined our various ponds
and rivers with particular reference to this species, without success,
but in riding past Mashapang Pond one day in October, I noticed
that the water was extremely low, and on going down to the edge
of the pond I saw numerous tracks of Unios in the sand, and among
them were some which seemed a little different in shape from those
made by the U.complanatus. On following up these tracks (some of
them eight or ten feet in length) I found at the end of each, bur-
rowed in the sand, the long-looked for radiatus.
Genus Margaritana, Schum., 1817.
Shell transverse, inequilateral; hinge like that of Unio, but des-
titute of lateral teeth. There are forty species, three of which in-
habit Rhode Island.
(To be continued.)
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,
THIRD SUPPLEMENT TO FirTH VOLUME OF TERRESTRIAL
Mo.Luusks oF THE UNITED Srates. By W. G. Kinney. (Ex.
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. xix, pt. 4, May, 1890.) This Third
Supplement equals our expectations, in fully sustaining the author’s
reputation for careful and reliable work. In it are described
and figured the species of land mollusks made known since the
publication of the Second Supplement. Mr. Binney, while not de-
parting from that wise conservatism, in regard to specific limitations,
which has made his successive volumes models of careful systematic
work, devotes more space than formerly to the important subject of
variation. Geographical distribution also has much attention.
The species and varieties figured and described are as follows: Zonites
minusculus var. Alachuana Dall (Florida), Succinea chrysis and annexa
Westerlund (Alaska), Zonites ligerus var. Stonei Pilsbry (Del.), Z.
Sterkii Dall (Ohio), Pupa Holzingeri Sterki (Minn., Ill.), Zonites
Singleyanus Pilsbry (Texas), Z. Dallianus Simpson (Fla.), Micro-
physa? dioscoricola Ad. (Fla.), Polygyra auriculata var. microforis
Dall (Fla.), P. Jacksoni var. deltoidea Simpson (Ind. Ter.), Mesodon
Kiowaensis Simpson (Ind. Ter.), Acanthinulu granum Strebel &
24 THE NAUTILUS.
Pfeffer (Fla.), Onchidium floridanum Dall (Fla.), Limax Hemphilli
W. G. B. (Cal.), Arion foliolatus Gould (a species of Prophysaon),
Prophysaon ceruleum, fasciatum, Pacificum, flaaum and humile of
Cockerell, Polygyra Roperi Pilsbry (Cal.), Patula strigosa vars. sub-
carinata, jugalis and Buttoni Hemphill, Zonites selenitoides Pilsbry,
Z. Simpsoni Pilsbry, Pupa calamitosa Pilsbry, Helix tudieulata var.
Binneyi Hemphill, Helicodiscus fimbriatus var. Salmonensis Hemp-
hill (Idaho & Oakland, Cal.). The discussion of the Helix major-
albolabris-andrewsi group, and of the western slugs of the genera
Hemphillia and Prophysaon are of great interest. The contribution
to the literature of our slugs is particularly timely and valuable.
Mr. Binney considers Bulimulus Hemphilli Wright a synonym of B.
Floridianus Pfeiffer. The plates, 10 in number, are admirably
drawn and printed; six of them illustrating slugs. The original
drawings are by Binney, A. F. Gray, T. D. A. Cockerell and A. H.
Baldwin. There are also numerous wood-cuts in the text. Whilst
we would perhaps take exceptions to certain minor details of Mr.
Binney’s classification, the work as a whole, is certainly very credit-
able to the distinguished author—H. A. P.
GENERAL NOTES.
HELIX HORTENSISIN NANTUCKET. Dr. Harrison Allen of Phila-
delphia, whose summer home is at the picturesque little village of
Siasconset, on the island of Nantucket, has presented me with four
specimens of H. hortensis taken there by him ;—the only ones he has
seen. This is the most southerly locality for this species yet known.
I am not inclined to believe it a native American, as Mr. Cockerell
thinks, but would rather regard it as animmigrant, who has come over,
like the rest of us, in comparatively recent times, and is gradually
extending its range. Two of the specimens are yellow, one with 4,
the other with 5 brown bands; one shell is uniform yellow (form
lutea Moq.); one is yellow with 5 translucent, almost colorless bands,
the lower two very wide, almost coalescent—H. A. Prnspry.
SPECIES DETERMINED. From E. W. Roper, Revere, Mass.
1, Nerita fulgurans Gmel. 2, Perna ephippium Lam. 3, Colum-
bella nitida Lam. 4, Conus mus Hwass. 6, Litorina ziczac
Dillw. 7, Cerithium minimum Gmel. 8, Modulus Floridanus
Conr. 9, Ricinula nodulosa Ad. 10, Purpura deltoidea Lam.
Locality, Vera Cruz, Mex.—H. A. P.
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VOL. Iv. JULY, 1890. No. 3.
.
A NEW EOCENE FOSSIL FROM TEXAS.
BY T. H. ALDRICH, CINCINNATI, OHIO.
Omalaxis Singleyi n. sp.
Shell flat, smooth, tricarinate, one carina on each edge and one
on the periphery of the body whorl; apex impressed ;
® a
“ rs oe aie ae 7
INDEX
ee Nee TT eS. VOL,
INDEX TO TITLES.
<~
Acmezea candeana vs. Acmzea antillarum
85
Agriolimax columbianus Gld. forma typicus 31
Agriolimax columbianus Gld. forma maculatus, Ckll. 3]
Agriolimax columbianus Gld. forma nigra 32
Agriolimax agrestis L. sub. sp. hyperboreus 30
Agriolimax agrestis L. synopsis of the principal Faraone of 70
American Association of Conchologists —. ‘ <1 | d0G0 80)
Anodonta corpulenta Cpr. destruction of. : &9
Antipodean oysters. ; ‘ : : ‘ : : 116
Australian slugs ; : ; : : ; i]
Baculites compressus, on the young of : . : ; 19
Bulimulus Ragsdalei, (Plate IT fig. 3) : : é : 39
Bythinia tentaculata 3 ; . : : : a bees.
Carychium exiguum mexicanum, n. var... : : ipa Cp)
Chondropoma caymanensis, n. sp... ; 4 : ; 83
Colonization of fresh water shells : : ‘ : 133
Cytherea texasiana, n. sp. 134
Do mollusca show change of dima in New Hinpland’ on 115
Donations to the United States collection : : 80
Donax of Eastern North America . c ; : : 125
Edible mollusks, ete. : : : : 2
Edible shell notes : : ; ‘ : 25
EKutivela, new subgenus of Meretris : 27
Exchanges . : : : : 46, 71, 95, 108, 119
Familiar mollusks, Rote on : : : : : . 52
Florida Helices , : ; : : : : : 119
Fluminicola Merriami, n. sp. . ‘ : ; f ; 143
Fissurella picta, note on. : : : : . 82
Fissurellidz of the United States ‘ : : : 4 102
ill
iv THE NAUTILUS.
Fissurellidee, additional U.S. species : gree . 113
Food of snails. ; : ; ; ; ‘ : : 107
Food of Limneide . , : 94
Galapagos Islands, some types new > ‘the ane 8 the : 97
General notes. : : 11,23, 40, 71, 82, 93; 107, 21S
Goniobasis Crandalli, (Pl. WU, figs. ia 5) ; : 39
Helix Hardfordiana Cooper, s IE - 12, 13, 14.) d 40
Helix xanthophaes, n. sp. : ; : : 38
Helix (Plagioptycha) Maspardi? n. 8 : : . : 83
Helix aspersa in California ; . , 2 : tL
Helix jejuna st. : : é : ‘ ; 5 : 119
Hewston, Dr. Geo., (obituary.) : : ; : : 71
Hyalina, description of a new species A ; ; : 10
Jay, John Clarkson, (obituary.) : ; : ; P 95
Land shells of Vancouver Island ; : : : 91
Land shells of Cayuga Lake Valley ; : . ee i
Land shells of New Jersey : : : . 141
Leidy, Dr. Joseph, (obituary). : : : : 12
Leucorhynchia Tryoni Pils, n. sp. . : : 1 are 91
Limacella 5 ; : : 3 : 5, 21, 53
Limax agrestis L. in Galifornia : : . ; : 101
Limax agrestis L. on, the Pacific coast ; : 92
List of the land and fresh water mollusca colleeed in
Jamaica. : . ; : 52
List of species eollected on the Is ‘lanes St. Thomas, St. Kitts,
Barbados, Jamaica, and at Pensacola, Fla., with pre-
fatory notes . : 6d
List of shells collected on Pay: al Talenls, aces) me on the
Madeira Islands, with prefatory notes . : ; 49
Loeal variation : : : 83
Marine mollusks from the Southers Coast of Bawa ‘ : 42
Marine pliocene beds of the Carolinas : , : 128
Meretrix (Eutivela) perplexa Stearns, n. s. - : > 28
Meretrix (Eutivela) Iheringi, Dall.n.s. . : 3 ; 29
Mollusks of San Francisco Co., Cal. ? : : . OA, 94
Mollusks in Portland, Oregon market E ; - : 58
Mollusks of Spoon River, Ill. . : : : : 61
Mollusks, new species of —. , 142
Mollusks of Dorcheat Bayou, anal ae Bis teneau, Tee 5 109
Mollusks as catfish food : : : ; : 2 124
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Newcomb, Dr. Wesley, (In Memoriam.) . , ‘ : 121
Note on Mr. Pilsbry’s “ Article IV” . : 5 : : 53
Orizosoma, new subgenus of Streptostyla. ’ 9
Paludina japonica, for sale in the San Francisco @hiness
Markets. . : : ; : 4 5 : : 114
Paludomus Palawanicus, n. sp. : ‘ ; ‘ : 17
Patella Boninensis, n. sp. . : : 3 : 79
Patula Cooperi, sinistral. . : ; : : : : 85
Philomycus. , : ‘ : , 4, 21,53
Physa osculans, var. Eeteeanronsia n. var. : : : 9
Planorbis trivolvis, ete. : ; : . 94, 95
Polygyra (Triodopsis) Mullani, var. Blneyee, n. var. é 47
Potamopyrgus? Bakeri, n. sp. j : : 5 : 9
Preliminary notices of new Mexican shells. ; : ; 8
Prophysaon pacificum. ; : : ; ol
Prophysaon andersonii, var pallida a VOL: : 31
Publications Received. : : : : 24, 72, 120, 128
Pupa syngenes. (PI. I, figs. 1, 2) : : 3 : ; 39
Pupa muscorum, Notes on. : ; : : 2 ; 45
Pupa Holzingeri Sterki, in Ohio. : : ; ; : 93
Pyrgulopsis? Patzcuarensis, n. sp. . : : : 5 )
Scutellina, use of the generic name. . : : : : 88
Shells of the Erie Canal. . : A : : : 23
Slugs from British Columbia. — . : : : : : 30
Streptostyla (Orizosoma) tabiensis, n. sp. : : : 9
Tebennophorus, on the genus. . P : : : . 4,21
Terebratulina (unguicula Cpr. var?) Kiiensis. (Pl. I,
figs, 4,5). : : : : . 18
Terebratulina unguicula, Gyr. typical CPT figs)6, 7). < 18
Terebratula Stearnsii. (PI. I, figs. 1, 2, 3) : ; : 19
Terebra Stearnsii, n. sp. Japan. : : : ; ‘ 93
Testacella Maugei in Philadelphia. . : : : : 85
Thylacodes medusze, n. sp. Japan. . . : : . 93
Unio Pilsbryi, n. sp. Arkansas. : : 4 : : 1
Unio Pleasii, n. sp. Arkansas. 2
Unionide in the Southeastern U. S. Means of acces
tion of 4 5 5 : : : 15
Unio Singleyanus, n. sp. Florida, ; : : : 29
Unio Ferrissii, n. sp. Florida. : : : : : 30
Unionide, On the Byssus of — . : : : : ites 0
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Unionide of Eastern Texas, Critical notes on . : ‘ ihe
Unio radiatus and Unio luteolus, Distinguishing characters
of 3 , ; y ; , ; A ‘ Pay A el (>
Unionide, Notes on ; : ; P s 3 : 86
Unio Oseuri, n. sp. Florida. . : : : ‘ 124
Vaginulus Schivelyee. (PI. II, figs.6,7,8) . : ‘ 39
Vallonia, Notes on North American forms of. P : 100
Vivipara, New variety of A 5 :
Zonites Shimekii. (PI. II, figs. 9, 10, 11) ‘ : 39
Zonites Brittsii, n. sp. : : : : : 99
INDEX TO CONTRIBUTORS.
Adams, Chas. C.
Bailey, Albert.
Banks, Nathan.
Beauchamp, Rev. W. M.
Brot, Dr. Aug.
Cockerell, T. D. A.
Dall, Dr. Wm. H.
Dean, Geo. W.
Dore, Harry E.
Farrer, W. J.
Fox, Wm. J.
Johnson, C. W.
Lind, Dr. G. D.
Marshall, Wm. B.
Marsh, Wm. A.
Pilsbry, H. A.
Raymond, W. J.
Rivers, J. J. :
Rush, Dr. Wm. H.
Simpson, Chas. T.
Stearns, R. E. C.
Sterki, Dr. V.
Strode, Dr. W. S.
Taylor, Rev. Geo. W.
Vaughan, T. Wayland
Walker, Bryant
Webster, Geo. W.
Winkley, Rev. Henry W.
Wood, Williard M.
Wright, Berlm H. .
Yates, Dr. Lorenzo G.
4, 30, Das 70
10, 18, 26, 49, 97, 125, 134
ee eae aL
58
141
; 32
d2, 80, 102
107
133
229
4,8, 21, 39, 45, 74, 79, 85, 88, 1, 99, 102, 141, 142
54, 101
111
49, 65
15, 86
; Tretia
73, 84, 90, 94, 95, 101, 118, 135
61, 89
Sieo2
109, 189
93
119
pnGos, Lie
54, 94, 114
124
fea
vil
HoEVEeON AMPLE US:
VOL. v. MAY, 1891. No. 1.
DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF UNIO, FROM ARKANSAS.
BY WM. A. MARSH.
Unio Pilsbryi.
Shell quadrate, somewhat oblique, plicate, striate, slightly inflated
before, compressed behind, very inequilateral, obtusely angular
before, sub-biangular posteriorly, valves thick before, thin behind,
beaks small and flat. Epidermis dark reddish-brown, without rays.
Cardinal teeth compressed, oblique, grooved, double in both valves,
lateral teeth long, slightly curved, solid, anterior cicatrices deep,
pit-like, granular, posterior cicatrices not very distinct, confluent,
nacre dull white.
Habitat. Little Red River, Arkansas.
Remarks. This species bears some resemblance to U. perplicatus
Con., which is abundant in the same stream, but differs in being
much flatter, beaks very much smaller, the growth lines much closer ;
it also differs in being coarsely striate over the entire surface of the
shell; in its undulations it is very different, the plications being very
small, and much broken up; in fact, semi-nodulous; from U.
undulatus Barnes, which is also abundant in the same stream, it
differs entirely in outlines, in the manner and disposition of its folds,
color of epidermis, nacre, teeth, etc., ete.
I name this shell in honor of Mr. H. A Pilsbry, Conservator
Conchological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila., who
first called my attention to its specific value. Specimens may be
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seen in the United States Collection of the American Association of
Conchologists, in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
Unio Pleasii.
Shell smooth, oval, slightly elliptical, very inequilateral, valves
rather thin, somewhat compressed, regularly rounded before, obtusely
angular behind, beaks very small and flat, undulations very minute.
Epidermis greenish-olive, usually covered with green capillary rays
posteriorly, sometimes rayless. | Cardinal teeth small, erect, cren-
ulate, single in the right, and double in the left valve, sometimes
tripartite in left valve; lateral teeth short and slightly curved, an-
terior cicatrices deeply impressed, posterior cicatrices very slightly
impressed, confluent ; nacre varying from pale rose to pale salmon,
often silvery white and iridescent.
Habitat. Little Red River, Arkansas.
Remarks. In general form this shell bears some resemblance to
Unio spatulatus Lea, but differs from that shell in being a much
smaller and thinner shell, very much more compressed ; its cardinal
teeth are entirely different ; it is not spatulate in form, and is very
much more inequilateral ; the nacre ditfers entirely ; the very peculiar
character of the females of this species must distinguish it from all
others; they are deeply emarginate, very oblique, and sharp pointed
posteriorly, bearing some resemblance to the females of Unio
conradianus Lea.
I name this shell after my friend, Mr. Ellwood Pleas, of Indiana,
who collected this species, with many other rare shells, in the interior
of Arkansas. Typical specimens of both male and female are in the
American Association Collection in Philadelphia.
EDIBLE MOLLUSKS, ETC., HERE AND THERE.
Mr. Carpenter’s article in the last number of THe Naurius, is
fully as entertaining and profitable as his previous communications.
It may be his last is a trifle more thrilling, and when this is supple-
mented by the usual spice of discrepancy, the picturesqueness
is enhanced and the thoughtful reader is for awhile diverted from
the plodding habit of careful definition and rational interpretation,
and led unconsciously to soar far and wide on the reckless wings of
fancy, and revel free and easy, in the salubrious atmosphere of
fiction. The author’s loyalty to Rhode Island is certainly commend-
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able, and his belief that that illustrious commonwealth is the
Banner State of the Union, in the matter of Oysters, Clams,
Scallops and earless Cats, and such creature comforts, is heartily
appreciated. I am prepared to wager—in vulgar parlance to bet—
a bowl of “ clam-chowder” against a “pan-roast,’’ with Mr. Car-
penter or any other conchologist brother, that the mollusks referred
to are abundant and nowhere of better quality than in Rhode Island,
and whether I lose the bet or not, in the spirit of fraternal sympathy,
to pay the bill; but here, let us “drop a stitch,” as the old ladies
do sometimes in their knitting, and pick it up further on; let us
leave the realms of romance and come down to the simple facts of
terra firma,
If Mr. Carpenter will kindly turn to Mr. Keep’s article in the
January Nauriuus, he will perceive two facts. First, the title is
“Mollusks of the San Francisco Markets.” Not the Edible
Mollusks of California. Second fact; nowhere in Mr. Keep’s paper
does the word California occur.
Yet Mr. Carpenter, in the last three lines of his article, on page
137 (of the April Nauriius), says: “ As we have seen, California
has but five species and Maine only four regulars and two occa-
sional, while Rhode Island can show eight every day and five irreg-
ular as below.” The careful reader will look in vain to see any
such statement in Mr. Keep’s paper, and the species enumerated
named therein, are such as are usually on the stalls in the San
Francisco markets.
In addition to those named by Mr. Keep I have occasionally
seen, and have purchased, Mucoma nasuta, Saxidomus aratus,
Acmea patina, Platyodon cancellatus and Haliotis rufescens. The
big Cephalopod Octopus punctatus is frequently met with, especially
in the Clay Street market, and is a common article of food among
the Italians and Portuguese. Another cephalopod, a small ten
footed species or squid, is frequently, if not usually, purchasable in
the Chinese markets, and dried Abalones or Haliotis meats, are a
regular article of food in Chinatown. I have supplemented Mr.
Keep’s five species with others that pertain to the San Francisco
markets, and do not propose to extend the list by going outside of
the territory of that city, and up and down the seven hundred and
more miles of the sea board of California, to name the twenty-five or
thirty other species, that may fairly be regarded as “edible clams”
and sufficiently abundant as to warrant their inclusion in a list of
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species available for food supply, and therefore of commerical
importance. Nor have I mentioned species that are “ occasionally
thrown into clam-bakes,” or others that “ were formerly eaten by the
* * - Indians.” A comparison in harmony with Mr. Keep’s paper
requires a list of those species of mollusks that are ordinarily on
sale in the markets of Providence and Newport, and this is what
Mr. Carpenter should have given.
The space occupied by this criticism, ete., is perhaps out of pro-
portion to the importance of the matter criticised; so I will only
take up the stitch previously dropped and in closing express my
surprise and astonishment at the effect of Rhode Island “scallop-
rims,” on Pawtuxet and East Greenwich cats, tabbies or tommies,
not specified, and marvel greatly over the possibility of turning
mules into horses by the same kind of fodder.
Another and more serious matter is hinted at, for the mollusks of
California, Maine and Rhode Island are referred to as “regulars”
and “irregulars.” This has the flavor of war. I have never seen
any military clams on the West Coast. I presume the “regulars”
belong to the standing army, and the “irregulars,’ are to be
regarded as militia only.
R. Ee’ Crs:
April 7th, 1891.
ON THE GENUS TEBENNOPHORUS BINNEY, OR PHILOMYCUS, RAF.
BY H. ASEILSBRY.
A recent discussion of this genus in the pages of the valuable
English magazine, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, is proba-
bly of sufficient interest to American conchologists to justify us in
reprinting the several articles.
Article I. (Ann. Mag. NV. H.; Nov., 1890.)
Not:s on Slugs chiefly in the Collection at the British Museum. By T. D. A.
COCKERELL.
THE GENUS Limacella, BLAINVILLE.
While working on the slugs at the British Museum I came across the type spec-
imens of Limacella lactiformis, Blainville. The two examples are in a bottle with
the label “ Zimacella lactescens,’ and another label, apparently written by Dr.
Heynemann, “Original zu Fig. 1, Taf. 7. Fér. Hist. Nat.” They are true
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Philomycus, presenting no generic difference from the well-known species of that
genus. Heynemann (1884) has referred them to 4vion, but he could not have
examined them sufficiently, and was no doubt misled by the figure in Man. de
Mal. (1827), pl. xli. That they are really Blainville’s types need not be doubted,
as they agree with his figures in outline, and his original description, notwith-
standing that he misunderstood the characters of the slug, is sufficient to show that
he had not an Avion before him. He refers to the absence of a shell and the
genital orifice at the base of the right tentacle. The outline of the figure, and
especially the anterior portion of the mantle, suggests at once a Philomycus. The
supposed 47ion-like mantle indicated in the figures is really due to an outline of
some of the internal organs, visible on account of the transparency of the slug.
The figures in Journ. de Phys., November, 1817, show how the mistake began, fig.
4 having even a sort of spiral coil in the middle of the anterior part of the mantle,
The figure of Z. edfortiana in Man. Mal. is the same outline, but apparently
patched up from an Avion ater, with altogether fictitious rugze on the back,
Férussac’s figure is afier one of those in Journ. de Phys., and is fairly recognizable.
Altogether I think it must be held that Blainville described and figured his
genus Zimace//a sufficiently for recognition, and as it antedates Phz/omycus by
three years, the name must be used. Lzmacel/a, Brard, 1815, need not be con-
sidered, as it is identical with Zzmax, Linné, 1767. Thesynonymy of Lzmacella,
Bl., will accordingly stand :—
LIMACELLA, Blainville.
1817. Limacella, Blainville, «« Mém. sur quelq. Moll. Pulm.’ Journ. de Phys.
Dec. 1817, p. 443 (text), and Nov. 1817, figs. 4, 5.
1820. Philomycus, Rafinesque, Ann. of Nat. p. 10.
1820. Zumelus, Rafinesque, Ann. of Nat. p. 10.
1824. Meghimatium, v. Hass. Bull. Univ. Sci. iii. p. 82.
1842. Zncilaria, Bens. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 486.
1842. Zebennophorus, Binney, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. p. 171.
1864. Pallifera, Morse, Journ. Portl. Soc. i. 8, fig. 5, pl. 11. fig. 6.
It does not seem necessary to recognize more than one genus here, though v.
Ihering (Nachr. d. m. Ges. 1889) recognizes three—Philomycus, Pallifera, and
Meghimatium. Pallifera may be conveniently retained as a subgenus.
The species of Z7mucel/a are as follows :—
Limacella lactiformis, Blainv.
1817. Limacella lactiformis, Blainv. Journ. de Phys. Dec. p. 444.
1821. Limacellus lactescens, Férussac, Hist. Nat. Moll. pl. vii. fig. 1.
1825. Limacella elfortiana, Blainv. Man. de Mal. et de Conch. p. 464.
This appears to be distinct from any species since recognized. The British
Museum types may be briefly described as follows :—42 millim. long; respiratory
orifice 7 millim. from anterior border of mantle. Sole, lat. 7 millim. Entirely
greyish-white; mantle pellucid, semitransparent, finely granulose. Sole slightly
ochreous, unicolorous. A distinct groove round the edge of the foot. Liver pale
chocolate.
Gray im 1855 (Cat. Pulm. p. 158) has referred this species to PAz/omy'cus.
lor)
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Limacella carolinensis (Bosc).
Limax carolinensis, Fér. Hist. 77, pl. vi. fig. 3.
There are two specimens of this species in the British Museum from Virginia
(Dr. J. Wyman), agreeing excellently with Férussac’s figure. This slug is cylin-
drical, curved, and zarrow (in alcohol) ; sole narrow; ground-colour and colour
of sole pale yellow, back thickly marbled with brown-grey, and with ¢wo longitu-
dinal series of dark egg-shaped spots. Jaw bright-coloured, not ribbed. (De-
scription from Brit. Mus. specimens.)
Dr. Gray (Brit. Mus. Cat.) also describes Z. carolinensis.
Limacella nebulosa.
? Eumelus nebulosus, Raf. Ann. of Nat. 1820.
Tebennophorus carolinensis, Binney, Terr. Moll. U. S. vol. ii. p. 20.
This and the last have hitherto been included together under the one name
carolinensis, and it is not without misgivings that I venture to separate them
here.* Yet, from the specimens which I have examined, there would certainly
seem to be a specific distinction between the northern and southern forms referred
to carolinensts in the Eastern United States and Canada. The British Museum
contains specimens of zebz/osa as follows :—
(1) From Mr. W. G. Binney, labelled 7: carolinensis.—Ochreous, marbled
with black above, the marblings rather inclined to be in three longitudinal
series. Sole unicolorous.
(2) W. Canada (Dr. Maclagan).—Pale yellow, marbled above with brownish-
grey, the markings being a broadish dorsal and narrower lateral brownish-
grey bands, with irregular spots over the rest, except sides near foot. Sole
unicolorous.
(3) Amhurstburgh, Canada West (Dr. O. W. Maclagan).—Like the last, but
mottling grey and more diffuse; two narrow dorsal and narrowish lateral
bands, rather obscurely indicated in grey. Grey mottling thicker. Ground-
colour pale yellowish.
Comparing carolinensis with nedulosa, we note :—
(2) The Virginia carolinensis——Sole narrow, yellowish, pale, without trans-
verse strize; body smoothish.
(6) nebulosa, 0. 1 above.—Sole broad, brown, with strong transverse striz ;
body rugose.
Or, taking measurements :—
(2) The Virginia cavolinensis.—Long. 35 millim., sole, lat. 3 millim.
(4) nebulosa, no. 1 above.—Long. 35 millim., sole, Jat. 74 millim.
(c) nebulosa, no. 2 above.—Long. 36 millim., sole, lat. 8 millim.
Rafinesque described five supposed species belonging to Phzlomycus and
Eumelus in 1820 as guadrilus, oxurus, flexuolaris, fuscus, and hvidus. They
* Mr. W. Binney writes (2 Zz¢¢. Sept. 9, 1890) :—‘‘ I am rather sceptical about
there being two species . . . . as you say .. . .—there zs a big species of Zeden-
nophorus confounded with carolinensis, but having a ribbed jaw.”
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will probably prove to be varieties of xedslosa or carolinensis, but they have not
yet been identified.
* x x % x% *% % % x % x % %
Limacella dorsalis (Binney).
Philomycus dorsalis, Binney, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 1842, iv. 174.
Pallifera dorsalis, Morse, Journ. Portl. Soc. 1864.
N. E. United States. Jaw ribbed.
Limacella Wetherbyi (W. G. Binney).
Pallifera Wetherbyi, W. G. Binney, Ann. Lyc. of Nat. Hist. of New York,
1874, xi. 81, pl. ii. figs. 1, 2.
Kentucky. Jaw ribbed.
Limacella Hemphilli (W. G. Binney).
Tebennorphorus Hemphilli, W. G. Binney, Man. Amer. Land-Shells, 1885, p.
247; Third Suppl. Terr. Moll. U. S. 1890, pl. vi. fig. H.
Georgia and North Carolina. Jaw ribbed.
Article II. (Ann. and Mag. N. H., Feb., 1891.)
Critical Notes on the Genus Tebennophorus and the recent literature relating to
zt. By Henry A. PiLspry, Conservator of the Conchological Section, Academy
of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
The slugs of this genus have been commented upon lately by a number of
English and continental authors, who have arrived at very different results, it has
occurred to the writer that a presentation of the subject by one who has studied
the species in their native forests would not be without interest.
Firstly, regarding the proper name for the genus. We will consider the several
designations in the order of their publication.
In 1817 Blainville proposed a genus Limace/a with the following characters :
“ Body limaciform, entirely naked, provided with a foot as wide as itself, but
separated by a groove.
‘‘Orifices of the organs of generation widely separated and communicating be-
tween each other by a furrow which occupies the entire right margin of the body.”
Blainville refers to his plate ii. fig v, illustrating the type species, L. /actiformis.
A moment’s reflection will convince any competent malacologist that the above
description does not indicate 7ebennophorus, a slug in which the genital organs
have acommon outlet. It cannot be supposed that Blainville has made a mistake
in observation, because in the same paper he describes at length the external
anatomy of Veronzcella, and correctly locates the orifices. The figure given is
equally non-committal; so much so that Mr. Cockerell (who supposes Limacel/a
to equal Zedennophorus) really cites ‘‘ figures 4, 5’’ instead of 5 only*—his inabil-
ity to tell Blainville’s figure of Zimaccl/a (fig. 5) from that of Veronzcel/a (fig. 4)
* That this is not mere inadvertence on Mr. Cockerell’s part is demonstrated by his
remarks on Blainville’s fig. 4 on p. 380 of the ‘ Annals’ for November, 1890.
8 THE NAUTILUS.
being evidence enough that the former is not generically recognizable. As to the
fact that Mr. Cockerell has found a couple of slugs under the name “ Limacella
lactescens”’ in the British Museum, which he saffoses are the types of Z. Jactz-
Sormis, it is absolutely irrelevant to the subject. What evidence is there beyond
the merest guess work that they are Blainville’s types? And even if they were
(a most improbable hypothesis !), their mere existence does not constitute pudlica-
tion. We have nothing whereby to judge Zimaced/asave the original figures and
description, and these certainly indicate a type of slug different from Zebennophorus.
It may also be noted that the name Limace//a is preoccupied, having been used
by Brard in 1815. If we care to be really consistent we must use Zimace//a in
place of Agriolimax !
The second name for the genus is Pi/omycus, Rafinesque. This genus, says
its author, ‘‘ differs from Z7max by no visible mantle, the longer pair of tentacula
terminal and club-shaped, the shorter tentacula lateral and oblong.’ Rafinesque
describes four species and says there are many more in the United States. Not
one of those he described has been identified with any certainty, and only two
species of 7ebennophorus occur in the regions visited by him. Rafinesque also
describes the genus Lumeles—* differs from imax by no visible mantle, the four
tentacula almost in one row in front and cylindrical, nearly equal, the smallest
pair between the larger ones.” Of this genus he describes two species, one of
which, 2. zedulosus, has been recognized by Mr. Cockerell, whose penetration
and facilities have enabled him to identify new or old species which have escaped
the observation of specialists on the American fauna.
We will not comment on these Rafinesquian genera; those who find slugs
corresponding to them should of course use the names. Lzmeles is especially
remarkable, and we would invite the attention of conchologists who hunt slugs
(in old collections of museums and elsewhere) to the unusual arrangement of the
tentacles in this genus, and to the fact that a number of Rafinesque’s species are
still at large.
The genus Meghimatium, v. Hasselt, 1824, was founded on a species of this
genus from Java, and was quite recognizably described. The names Zedenno-
phorus, Binn., and /rcilaria, Benson, were both proposed in 1842, the probable
priority being in favour of the first.
Morse in 1864 established the genus Pad/ifera for a species with ribbed jaw.
This review shows that several names for the genus, more or less certainly
applying to it, were proposed anterior to 1842, the date of Zebennophorus. Of
these names PAz/omycus and Meghimatium are the only ones available, Aumeles
and Limacella being clearly inapplicable. Since continental authors generally
have adopted the name Pilomycus, it seems advisable to retain that designation
for the genus if Zedbennophorus must be rejected. .
(To be continued.)
PRELIMINARY NOTICES OF NEW MEXICAN SHELLS.
BY H. A. PILSBRY.
The shells here described were collected by the expedition from
the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and will be fully
described and illustrated in the Proceedings of the Academy.
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Orizosoma, new subgenus of Streptostyla.
Shell perforated, the columella thickened, simply concave, almost
imperceptibly sinuous above.
Streptostyla (Orizosoma) tabiensis, n. sp.
Shell ovate-turreted, ratber thin, smooth, the base deeply indented
and minutely umbilicated; whorls 6, the three earlier distorted ;
aperture narrow, 3 the length of the shell, outer lip sinuous; colu-
mella thickened, concave. Alt. 9°8, diam. 4°8 mill.
Cave at Tabi, Yucatan.
Carychium exiguum mexicanum, n. yar,
Shell cylindrical; whorls 43; aperture equalling or a trifle ex-
ceeding 3 of the total length. Outer lip thickened at and below the
middle by a very heavy deposit of callus upon its face; columellar
fold subobsolete. Surface delicately striated. Alt. 1:8, diam.*8 mill.
Orizaba, Mexico.
Physa osculans var. Patzcuarensis, n. var.
Shell thin, obconic, broad above, narrow below; spire small,
acute, whorls 4, rapidly enlarging ; columella long, vertical, slightly
sinuous; color light brown or whitish. No internal lip-rib ; surface
smooth. Alt. 15, diam. 11 mill.
Lake Patzcuaro, Mexico.
Holds the same relation to Ph. oseulans Hald. that aneillaria +
Parkeri hold toward Ph. heterostropha. The rationale of these
bulging, broad-topped forms of Physa is discussed in my paper in
Proc. A. N.S. Phila.
Potamopyrgus ? Bakeri, n. sp.
Shell slender, elongated, composed of 53 very convex whorls;
aperture ovate, its length contained more than three times in the
length of the shell. Surface marked by delicate growth-lines, hav-
ing low, inconspicuous longitudinal folds, sometimes quite regular
and well marked on the upper whorls, and encircled by numerous
fine, subobsolete spiral striz. Alt. 4, diam. 1°9 mill.
Yautepec, Mexico.
Has much the general aspect of Tryonia protea Gld. It is named
in honor of Mr. Frank C. BAKER who collected the specimens.
Pyrgulopsis ? Patzcuarensis, n. sp.
In general form like P. nevadensis Stearns. Whorls acutely
keeled in the middle, convex above the keel, the last whorl obtusely
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shouldered above the median keel. Covered with an olive epi-
dermis. Surface marked by delicate growth-lines and excessively
fine, close spiral strie. Alt. 5-2, diam. 3 mill; alt. of apert., 2,
width 1°3 mill.
Lake Patzcuaro, West Mexico.
This species is very different from other American Amnicoloids.
(To be continued.)
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF HYALINA.
BY WM. H. DALL.!
Dr. V. Sterki, of New Philadelphia, Ohio, has of late years been
giving special attention to the minute forms of Pulmonata, Vertigo,
Pupilla, Hyalina, ete. In 1886 he collected a small Zonites, of the
section Hyalina or Conulus, which, being submitted to several
naturalists, appeared to be a new species, although of remarkably
small size. In 1887 a few more specimens were obtained, which
he has submitted to me with the request that I describe them.
Shell minute, thin, yellowish translucent, brilliant, lines of growth
hardly noticeable, spire depressed, four-whorled ; whorls rounded,
rn base flattened, somewhat excavated about the cen-
ter, which is imperforate; aperture wide, hardly
oblique, not very high, semilunate, sharp edged,
the upper part of the columella slightly reflected ;
upper surface of the whorls roundish, though the
spire as a whole is depressed. Max. diameter 0.044
inch (line a—s, Fig. 1); alt. 0°026 inch.
This little shell is clearly not the young of a
Pupilla or of any of our other small Zonites. It
is certainly the smallest American species. #.
parvula Rang, from Cape Verde Islands, has a
little less diameter, but is higher in the spire.
H. pygmea and H. minutissima Lea are decidedly
larger, besides belonging to a different group. It
is probably one of the smallest species known, and remarkable for
its imperforate umbilicus. :
1 From Proceedings U. S. National Museum, vol. xi, 1888, p. 214,
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It was collected on a grassy slope, inclining to the northward,
and covered with grass, moss, and small bushes, and so far has not
been found anywhere else. Its permanent place in the system will,
of course, be determined by an examination of the soft parts, which
remains to be made.
GENERAL NOTES.
Owing to continued illness in his family, Mr. CAMPBELL, President
of the American Association of Conchologists, has been unable to con-
tribute the monthly reports on Association affairs. He hopes to
resume them in the June issue.
Mr. C. W. Jounson, Junior Editor of the Nautiius, and Mr.
Wo. Fox, of the Academy of Natural Sciences, have spent the
month of April in that paradise of land snails, Jamaica. They will
return about the middle of May, and doubtless bring with them
hosts of shells and insects.
The personal interest felt by younger students in their predeces-
sors in science, is our excuse for clipping the following from a re-
cent letter:
“Tn the March number of the Nauriius, Mr. Roper said that
Mr. Mayo was probably the oldest student of conchology in
America. Mrs. Mary B. ALLEN Kine, of Rochester, N. Y., is
92 years old, having been born in January, 1799. She has studied
and collected shells before Mr. Mayo (whom she met at one time)
did; and has corresponded with most of the U. 8. Conchologists.
She was elected a member of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science in 1886, at the Buffalo meeting.” —A. M. Kk.
AUSTRALIAN StuGs.—Mr. Charles Hedley exhibited and offered
some remarks on specimens of Vaginula leydigi, Simroth, and V.
hedleyi, Simr., two interesting slugs from Brisbane, recently added
to the mollusean fauna of Australia (vide Zoologischer Anzeiger,
1889, p. 551; and Abstr. in Journ. Roy. Micros. Soc., 1890, p. 21).
These slugs are very abundant in the Brisbane botanical gardens,
occurring also in lawns and gardens in that part of the city which
was formerly scrub land. After a shower they may be collected in
abundance, crawling rapidly over the asphalt paths and the grass.
V. leydigi is much commoner than JV. hedleyi, which it resembles in
shape, size and habits, but from which its coloration distinguishes it
in all stages of its growth, the former being a blackish-brown with
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a tawny yellow dorsal stripe, the latter a dark form without any
stripe. These molluscs are the first real representatives of their
genus found in Australia, the only Vaginula previously known
here, V. australis, Heyneman, belonging to that trigonal group
which embraces V. prismatica, Tapparone-Canefri, from Dutch
New Guinea, V. towrannensis, Souleyet, from Cochin-China,
and V. trigona, Semper, from the Philippines, constituting a
natural but as yet unnamed genus. He also took the opportunity of
pointing out that he had submitted specimens of Limax queens-
lundicus, Hedley (P. R. 8S. Q., Vol. V, p. 150, pl. 5), to Dr. Sim-
roth, who had determined them to be Agriolimax levis, Miiller.
This species is probably the slug (Journ. des Mus. Godeff., XII, p.
159) mentioned under the name of L. rarotonganus, Heyn., as occur-
ring in Australia. Few if any land molluscs range so widely, since,
under different names by various authors, this form has been re-
corded from Europe, North and South America, the West Indies,
Madagascar, and many islands of the Pacific—From advance proof
sheet Proce. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, Australia, Dec., 1890.
I ES, OS Cy ee
Dr. JosepH Leipy.
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Professor JosEPH Letpy, M. D., LL. D., the eminent scientist,
died at his home in Philadelphia on April 30th, 1891. Dr. Leidy
was born in Philadelphia, Sept. 9, 1823. His ancestors on both
sides were Germans, from the valley of the Rhine. His taste for
natural history was exhibited at a very early age, and when a mere
boy he collected and studied minerals and plants. His father pro-
posed for him the career of an artist, but so absorbed was the boy
in anatomical and natural history studies that, with the encourage-
ment of his mother, at the age of seventeen he began the study of
medicine, graduating in 1844. In 1845 he was appointed Prosector
to the Chair of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania. Dr.
Leidy’s first scientific work was a paper on the anatomy of Litorina,
published by the Boston Society of Natural History. In 1844 he
began, at the instance of Dr. Amos Binney, to study the anatomy
of laud snails. The result is seen in his beautiful anatomical draw-
ings in the first volume of Binney’s “ Terrestrial Mollusks,” and in
the chapter on special anatomy written by him. In 1845 Dr.
Leidy was elected a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia. He has been closely connected with this institution
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in various official positions ever since, and has been its President
since 1880. Dr. Leidy published very extensive memoirs on verte-
brate paleontology, on Rhizopods (a truly magnificent quarto vol-
ume), on the anatomy of Insects, and especially on Entozoa and
Vermes generally. Indeed, nearly every branch of zoological lit-
erature has received valuable additions at his hands. His work is
so many-sided that in the broadest sense of the word, Dr. Leidy
may be called a Zoologist. He was an honored member of many
scientific societies in both hemispheres, and had received substan-
tial tokens of the value of his work from the Boston Society (Wal-
ker Prize, $1000), the Geological Society of London (Lyell Medal),
and other learned bodies.
In his private relations Dr. Leidy was of a most kind and help-
ful disposition. He had an almost morbid dislike of contention of
any kind. The loss to American Zoology is irreparable.
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VOL. v. JUNE, 1891. No. 2.
ON THE MEANS OF DISTRIBUTION OF UNIONIDZE IN THE
SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES.
BY CHAS. T. SIMPSON, WASHINGTON, D. C.
In the March number of the Nauritus Mr.S. Hart Wright in some
notes on the distribution of Unionide in the Southeastern United
States thinks it remarkable that many of the species of Georgia and
the Carolinas should be found in Southern Florida, and that they
should pass from one stream to the other. I think when we fully
consider all the conditions of environment of these mollusks it will
be easy to understand how they have migrated.
The region is one of excessive rainfall. Over a wide area of
territory bordering on the Gulf and the Atlantic it is nowhere less
than 45 inches a year, ranging up to 75 inches in the vicinity of
Cape Hatteras. North of latitude 30° the most of this moisture
falls during the winter and early spring. South of somewhere near
that line the regular dry and rainy seasons of the tropics set in, and
nearly all the precipitation occurs in June, July and August. Of
course these conditions vary somewhat with different seasons and
under different circumstances, but as a rule in any part of this area
the greater amount of the annual rainfall occurs within a limited
period, producing extensive floods.
It is well known that all the region indicated, or at least a wide
belt of it extending along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, is exceedingly
low and flat, consisting for the most part of level, sandy plains,
rising as a rule but a few feet above, and alternating with swampy
streams.
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Having thus outlined the physical conditions of their environment,
it may perhaps be well to speak of the manner in which the
Unionid migrate from one locality to another.
The number of young produced by the species of this family is
simply enormous. Lea counted some 600,000 perfectly formed
embryos in the ovaries of an Anodonta undulata, and estimated that
a female Unio multiplicatus contained no less than 3,000,000 shells.
It is believed that these young bivalves sometimes attach them-
selves to fishes and are thus carried from place to place; no doubt
others are taken up in mud on the feet or feathers of aquatic birds,
and may survive a short transit through the air, and certainly
they might be swept from stream to stream across the country dur-
ing the time of floods, when almost the entire surface of that level
area is covered with water, in many places flowing with a rapid
current. During the rainy seasons in South Florida I have repeat-
edly seen the whole country a sheet of water, with myriads of fish
swimming in every direction among the palmettoes and over the
fields. That the Unionide are carried out over the land is, I think,
proved by the fact that I have found Unio obesus existing in great
numbers in low places and drains in the piney woods of South
Florida, at quite a distance from any stream, where there was not
a drop of water outside of perhaps three months of the rainy season,
and where during the remaining nine months of the _year they
must have lain dormant in slightly damp sand. I have dug these
unios alive out of such sand banks in such places, and during the
dry season, by the bushel.
It is a well-known fact and one which seems to me much more
strange than the migration of unios across such a country, that
artificial ponds and reservoirs often become densely peopled with the
Naiades, even when their outlets are altogether too insignificant in
size to be a residence for these molluscs. In such cases it would
seem most probable that aquatic birds had been the means of such
distribution, and possibly in rare instances they may have been lifted
from their original homes and carried by cyclones.
But once having reached the lower part of the St. Johns River, I
cannot conceive of any difficulty mollusks would encounter in
spreading toward its sources. The stream is really little more than
a freshwater estuary for a long distance from its mouth, and has but
a few feet of fall throughout its entire length. Let any of the
Unionide be placed in any part of a stream and if the conditions
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are favorable they will migrate against the current as well as with
it. Any one who has ever collected these mollusks at all extensively
will notice their furrows on sandy or muddy bottom, often extending
for forty or fifty feet, and made apparently without any regard to
the direction of the stream. I am led from my observations to
believe that most of the unios if placed in favorable conditions
would migrate over considerable stretches of water in a comparatively
short period.
PALUDOMUS PALAWANICUS, n. sp.
BY DR. AUG. BROT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND.
T. imperforata, globoso-turbinata, solidula, fusco-olivacea non-
nunquam obscure flammulata. Spira breviter exserta, subintegra,
sed superficialiter erosa ; anfract. 43-5, rapide crescentes, valde con-
vexi, vix infra suturam submarginatam paulo planulati, sub lente
tenuissime spiraliter striati et striis incrementi subgranosa decussati,
striis infra suturam et ad basin postioribus, filiformibus. Anfractus
ultimus magnus, basi striis elevatis filiformibus nonnulli distantibus,
ornatus. Apertura ampla, late ovata, intus fusco-brunnea, margine
dextro subserrato, vix incrassato, intus albo limbato; columella
incrassata, alba, callo parietali albo crasso.
Operculum ?
Alt. 19 mm., lat. 17 mm.; apert. alt. 13 mm., lat. 10 mm.
Habit. I. Palawan, Philippines (legit E. L. Moseley).
Shell globose with a short exserted spire, moderately thick,
dusky-olivaceous, sometimes with irregular translucent interrupted
flames. Spire short, almost entire, but superficially eroded. Volu-
tions 43—5, very convex, slightly flattened under the suture, which is
finely marginated, covered with fine spiral unequal striz, and
decussated by the lines of growth; last whorl globose, with some
distant filiform striz at the base and along the suture. Aperture
wide, ovoid, inside dusky-brown, sometimes with one or two narrow
pale bands; columella thickened, white; outer lip obscurely ser-
rated, slightly thickened inside, white at the margin.
This interesting new shell, although the operculum is unknown,
belongs certainly to the genus Pa/udomus and is, I believe, the first
species of the genus mentioned from the Philippines. It cannot be
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confounded with any other; it might be compared only to Paludo-
mus lacunoides Aldrich, from Borneo, but that species is larger,
heavier, has a more elevated spire, less tumid volutions, and is
entirely smooth, not to speak of the characteristic peculiar structure
of its umbilical area.
The Paludomus Palawanica was collected by Mr. E. L. Moseley
in a brook about ten miles from Puerto Princesa in the Island
of Palawan, Philippine Archipelago.
TEREBRATULINA (UNGUICULA CPR. VAR?) KIIENSIS, DALL
AND PILSBRY.
? T. unguicula Cpr. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 201, figs. 1-4.
? T. caput serpentis, var. unguiculata Day. Trans. Lin. Soc. iv, p. 25, 1886.
Terebratulina sp. Dav. Challenger Brach. p. 36, pl. 1, fig. 10, 1880.
Habitat: Phillippines, in 82 fathoms N. E. from Mindanao,
Chall. Exp. ; Coast of Province Kii, Japan, Stearns; N. W. coast
of America, various authorities including Carpenter, Dall, Whit-
eaves, ete.
Among the shells collected by Mr. Stearns in Japan, and
sent to Mr. Pilsbry for identification, is a coarsely radiately
striated Terebratulina which has been carefully studied, but in the
absence of more material, cannot be finally pronounced upon. It
appears to be the adult of a form of which a young specimen was
submitted by Dr. Davidson in 1879 to Mr. Dall for examination
and which had been collected by the Challenger Expedition. It
was not named at that time in view of the fact that it was obviously
young, and the number of nominal East Asian Terebratulinas ob-
viously too great for the known species.
This shell is sculptured like 7. wnguicula Cpr. and the larger the
specimen, the more wnguicula seems to resemble the Japanese form.
T. unguicula under the name of caput-serpentis has been recognized
already in Japan, by Davidson.
The present form differs from the largest wnguieula with which
we have been able to compare it in the following particulars. It is
larger and proportionately somewhat wider and the beak propor-
tionately shorter, much such differences as would come about by
increased size in such a species as wnguicula. If more material
should prove that the supposed variety cannot be connected with
unguicula, the varietal name can be taken as specific. The specimen
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noted measures 44 mm. in total length ; 38:5 mm. in the length of
the hemal valve; 40 mm. in maximum width and 21:5 mm. in
maximum diameter. It is waxen white with extraneous brown
stains and has no anterior flexure. Davidson’s figure of Tr. Crossei
(Trans. Lin. Soc. IV, pl. 3, fig. 6) resembles it, but is more faintly
sculptured and less transverse.— W. H. D. and H. A. P.
EXPLANATION OF PuaTE I.
Figs. 1, 2,5. Terebratula Stearnsii Dall & Pilsbry.
“ 4,5. Terebratulina var. Kiiensis Dall & Pilsbry.
Be Ont. : unguicula Cpr., typical, a large specimen.
ON THE YOUNG OF BACULITES COMPRESSUS SAY.
BY AMOS P. BROWN, PHILADELPHIA.
The young of Baculites compressus Say has been recently dis-
covered by me in some cretaceous marl from the vicinity of Dead-
wood, South Dakota. Associated with them in the same material
were several species of Baculites, Scaphites and Inoceramus. The
young Baculites were of the form shown in figures 1 and 2 and varied
in length from 1 to 3 em., with a diameter of 0'4 to2 mm. Other
larger fragments with the spiral end broken off were found from
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1-5 to 6 em. in diameter. An examination of the form of the septa
and suture lines showed the forms to belong to the Ammonitide,
and by the examination of an extensive series it was possible to
determine the genus and species.
The shell originates in a spiral of two to two and one-half turns,
ranging in breadth from 0°8 to 1 mm. thence it extends in a straight
line, tangent to the spiral (figure 1) or sometimes slightly reflexed
(figure 2). The straight portion of the shell rapidly increases in
diameter from 0°58 to 0°40 mm. at the spiral, to about 1°5 to 2 mm.
at 2 em. length. Many shells were covered by the nacreous shell
substance, some being preserved entire, figure 2, while in others the
shell had been dissolved away leaving the suture lines exposed as
in figure 1. On breaking away the pearly exterior of forms like
figure 2 it was found that the last chamber occupied about one-half
the length of the shell. The shell of the outer whorls somewhat
envelops the inner so that from the outside view the exact form of
the spiral cannot be measured ; it was found, however, to closely
approximate the mathematical curve known as the hyperbolic
spiral. That the spiral origin of this shell was not smaller than
that of allied genera was demonstrated by grinding cross sections of
the shell of Scaphites Conradi Morton ; the first two turns of its
spiral being 1 mm.in breadth. The siphon in Baculites is excentric
and was found to lie near the outer margin of the spiral, being
easily seen in the fractured spirals.
The species was determined from an examination of the form of
the sutures which may be traced from the simple form of that of
figure 1, through forms of gradually increasing complexity shown
in figures 3, 4, 5, and 6, the latter being the typical sutures of the
adult of Baculites compressus Say. In figure 5, an individual of
6 mm. diameter, the suture of the adult form is already well out-
lined, the specific distinction, the two deep sinuses on the right
hand, being well marked.
I have been unable in the literature of the subject to find any
reference to this spiral termination of Baculites, and believe the
observation to be new. That this spiral termination has not been
formerly observed is not strange in view of its small size and frag-
ile character, it being probably broken off long before the shell
had attained adult size; and it would only be preserved when as in
the present instance the shells were preserved in their immature
condition. This observation tends to prove that Baculites origi-
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nated from a coiled form, and is not as supposed by some palzeon-
tologists the original form of the Ammonitide, but is rather to be
louked upon as an uncoiled form developed from originally coiled
parents.
ON THE GENUS TEBENNOPHORUS BINNEY, OR PHILOMYCUS, RAF.
(CONTINUED. )
BY H. A. PILSBRY.
Article III. (Ann. Mag. N. H., March, 1891.)
Letter from Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell to Eds. Ann. Mag. N. H.
The Genus Limacella.
On pp. 184-186 of the February number Mr. Pilsbry has some remarks on the
genus Zebennophorus or Limacella, to which I may perhaps be }-ermitted to reply,
taking his several points in order.
(1) That plate of Blainville’s has certainly received bad treatment. The figures
have been inaccurately copied ; Férussac quoted it wrongly ; and now, as
Mr. Pilsbry has shown, I also have erred with regard to it! There are two
figures iv., labelled respectively 1 and 2. Fig. 21s obviously Veronicella,
but fig. 1, for which alone my reference was intended, looks like Limacedla,
though from Blainville’s text it is clearly intended for Veronicel/a also. I
quite agree with Mr. Pilsbry that fig. iv. no. 1 might or might not from its
appearance be of the genus under discussion ; and as it is stated to be Ver-
onicella, there apparently remains no doubt that my reference of it to Lim-
acella was erroneous. I am still of the opinion, however, that fig. v. rep-
resents the genus Americans writers call 7esexnophorus.
(2) There is, I think, no doubt about the slugs I described being Blainville’s
types; nor are these the only British-Museum slugs described by Blain-
ville. The Museum is mentioned in the original paper.
(3) It is very difficult to say whether inaccuracy of description, when there is no
doubt what was intended, ought tocondemna name. [If so, there will have
to be considerable slaughter of the genera described by early authors, or,
for that matter, by some recent ones. Phtlomycus, which Mr. Pilsbry
thinks might be adopted, was also inaccurately defined. So farasis known
there is no slug in existence really agreeing with the original descriptions
of Limacella or Philomycus taken literally.
(4) Limacel/a, Brard, if it is anything, is Zzmax of modern authors, not Agrio-
imax. But a genus founded for the shed/s only of species of the Linnean
Limax cannot be recognized as valid, and the only authors who have
adopted it are Dr. Jousseaume (1876) and Dr. Turton. The former
writes Limacella for Limax auctt., and Limax for Arion; while Dr. Tur-
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ton (1831) kept the name for the shells of Zzmax and allied genera, though
spelling it Zzmacellus, We are told, for instance, that Lzmacellus parma,
Brard, is “found in the Limax maximus,’ as though it were a sort of
parasite !
(5) I think it nearly certain that my Zimace//a nebulosa is Rafinesque’s species
£. nebulosus ; but if so, of course that author described itincorrectly. Mr. ,
Pilsbry will observe that I have given the reference with a query.
While on the subject, it may be well to mention that there is a figure and de-
scription of Zimacella lactiformis (as E-lfortiana) in Knight’s ‘ Pictorial Museum
of Animated Nature,’ vol. ii. and fig. 2598. The figure is very bad, being a rough
copy of that in Man. de Mal.; but the generic description, so far as it goes, is
accurate. T. D. A. COCKERELL.
3 Fairfax Road, Bedford Park, Chiswick, W.,
February 3, 1891.
Article IV. By H. A. Piuspry.
In concluding I wish simply to emphasize a few points upon
which both Mr. Cockerell and myself have already touched.
(1) That Blainville’s figures are so poor that Mr. Cockerell could
not tell his Veronicella from his Limacella, but repeatedly confused
them in his first article. Blainville’s description most certainly
indicates Vaginulus rather than Tebennophorus, as anyone can see
by reading the translation of it given in my article. We can allow
for some inaccuracy in descriptions by early authors, but we cannot
suppose that when they say “black” they mean “ white.”
(2) As to Limacella, Brard. The name as used by Brard covers
species of both Limax and Agriolimax. Since the Limaces are
already provided with a name, why should we not adopt “ Lima-
cella” for the other species, namely the Agriolimaxz, as has been
done in scores of similar cases? Still I do not care to advocate the
use of “ Limacella” for any group, as no definition worthy of accept-
ance has been given of it.
(5) As to the Limacella nebulosa (Raf.?) Ckll., I do not see how
it is to be separated from carolinensis as that species is figured by
Férussac. The characters given by Mr. Cockerell are wholly
insufficient. Why does he not tell whether the jaw is ribbed or
smooth? We would then have some clue of value. Measurements
taken from variously and generally badly contracted museum spec-
imens of slugs are practically of but little use.
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(4) Mr. Cockerell truly says that Philomycus like Limacella was
inaccurately defined by Rafinesque. It would be well for us to
adopt Fischer’s course, and write “ Philomycus Férussac, 1821.”
Férussac fixes the identity of the genus with certainty by including
the species carolinensis, which he describes and figures very well.
Nore. The writer desires to make a more careful study of the
species of Philomycus (Tebennophorus), and will be glad to receive
specimens. They are best if prepared by drowning in a vessel of
water from which air has been excluded. Transfer to alcohol (or
whiskey) and water, the former slightly in excess. They may then
be sent safely by mail in an ordinary box, if removed from the
spirit and wrapped in paper or muslin wet with spirit—H. A. P.
GENERAL NOTES.
Mr. Henry Hempai tt has left San Diego for a summer in the
north.
SHELLS OF ErRtE CanaL.—Taking advantage of the annual
spring cleaning of the Erie canal, I spent one day in April of the
present year collecting mollusks between [lion and Utica with the
following results :
Unio Tappanianus Lea, - : : 4 300 specimens.
Unio rubiginosus Lea, , : : : 15 e
Unio luteolus Lam., —. , , é : it
Unio complanatus Sol., : : ; 38 i
Margaritana marginata Say, : : : 1 =
Margaritana undulata Say, : , u 18 ss
Margarituna rugosa Barnes, : : 28 .
Anodonta edentula Say, ; ; : : 24 Hf
Anodonta subcylindracea Lea, . ; 4 6 he
Anodonta Lewisii Lea, : : : . 9] es
Physa heterostropha Say, : : “ : 150 as
Campeloma decisum Say, . : , 46 s
Goniobasis Virginica Gmelin, 3 : : 379 s
Vivipara contectoides W.G. Binney, . ; 5 c
Planor bis trivolvis Say, : : : 8 “
Spherium striatinum Lam., . . : . 12 zi
bo
Limnea catascopium Say,
All were collected without a dredge ei aiber Bailey, Chepachet
New York.
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The late Epwarp R. Mayo of Boston left no will, but his chil-
dren have generously donated his valuable conchological collection
to the Boston Society of Natural History —E. W. R.
CoLLEcTION FOR SALE.—We learn that the Collection of Dr.
Hartman is for sale, together with his Conchological Library and
other works on Natural History. The Collection embraces about
8000 species of Marine, Terrestrial and fresh-water shells of the best
quality, many of which are rare and difficult to obtain. All parts
of the world are represented in this Collection, which has taken a
period of forty years to accumulate. They are all correctly named
and many are mounted. Inquiriesshould be addressed to Dr. W. D.
Hartman, West Chester, Penna.
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
Mo.uusca OF Santa BARBARA Co., CAL., etc., by Dr. Lorenzo
G. Yates. A useful contribution to our knowledge of the distribu-
tion of West Coast shells, is this extensive local catalogue. We note
a number of errors in nomenclature, such as the retention of the
name “ sanguineus” for the common Leptothyra, etc., but such defects
do not really diminish the usefulness of the list. The following are
described and figured as new: Venus Fordii Yates, Vertagus Lordi
Yates, Vermiculus Fewkesi Yates. -
BEAks OF UNIONIDH * * or ALBANY, N. Y., by Wm. B. Mar-
shall (Bull. N. Y. State Mus. II, p. 170). —By
the way, we know that young Unionide attach themselves on the
fins, etc. of fishes, after leaving the branchial uteri of their mothers.
But observations of this kind are, probably, seldom made, and it
would be of value to report on each instance observed. Malacologists
living in the neighborhood of fisheries could do good work in this
direction.— Dr. V. Sterki.
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VOL. Vv. DECEMBER, 1891. No. 8.
ACMZA CANDEANA VS. ACMZA ANTILLARUM.
BY HH. A. PIESBRY.
So difficult a group are the limpets that their nomenclature has
been in a condition little better than chaotic from the earliest times.
Years ago the West American species were studied by CARPENTER,
whose genius reduced them to comparative order. It was, however,
left for DALL to point out, with penetrating insight, their generic
relationships.
The species of the Gulf of Mexico have never been studied with
the same facilities as those of West America. Dall, in his ‘ Blake’
Report, enumerates the forms he had seen, with critical notes on
their nomenclature; and the writer has this year given a somewhat
elaborate account, founded upon the specimens in the Philadelphia
Academy and the Smithsonian Institution collections.
In the case of A. Candeana however, the earliest publication of
the species, under the name Lofttia Antillarum, has been overlooked
by all. In this case, as elsewhere, we can only find safety amid the
flood of conflicting names, by taking our stand upon the solid rock
of priority.
Sowerby’s figure of Lottia Antillarum is an excellent and char-
acteristic picture of this species in its finest development.
The synonymy will stand as follows:
Lottia Antillarum SowerRBy, Genera of Shells, fig. 4. (Issued
before 1831.)
Lottia Antillarum Sowrersy, A Concholog. Manual, p. 59, fig.
251, 1859. (A somewhat different color-form.)
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Lottia Antillarum Sowb., Reeve, Conchol. System., pl. exxxvii,
f. 4 (printed from same plate as Sowerby’s Genera) 1842.
Patella tenera C. B. ApAms, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii, p. 8 (1845).
Patella tenera Ad., REEVE, Conch. Icon. fig. 104.
Patella Candeana Ors., Moll. Cuba, ii, p. 199, atlas pl. 25,
figs. 1-3.
Aemea Candeana Orb., DAL, Catal. Mar. Moll. 8. E. U. S., p.
159.
Acmea Candeana Orb., Prrspry, Manual of Conchology, xiii, p.
38, pl. 5, figs. 91-95, and pl. 42, figs. 92-95.
? Patella (Acmea ?) elegans Putiipr1, Abbild. u. Beschreib. iii,
p. 34, Patella p. 6, pl. 2, fig. 2 (1846).
? Not P. antillarum Sowb., Purirprr, Abbild. iii, Patella pl. 2,
fig. 12.
Acmea Antillarum is found throughout the West Indies, from the
Bahamas and Southwest Florida to Tobago.
NOTES ON UNIONIDE.
BY CHAS. T. SIMPSON.
The November number of the Nauritus seems to be devoted
mostly to Unios, and to me is an exceedingly interesting issue.
Lea’s classification of the Unionide was almost wholly an artifi-
cial one, and I believe he instituted it for convenience in working,
just as Linnzeus founded the artificial system of classification in
botany. Both these great pioneers in science recognized the natural
systems, and probably used these as makeshifts. All through the
latter part of his writings, Dr. Lea acknowledged the fact that the
Unionide were divisible into natural groups. To some capable
student of the future is reserved the task of determining these
groups and assigning the species to them. The accomplishment
of this will be well worth a working lifetime of careful and honest
study.
Mr. Geo. W. Dean claims to be able at sight, to refer to its
proper species any specimen of either Unio luteolus or radiatus. I
confess that this is more than I can do, and I have handled many
thousands of specimens of both, collected from the entire territory
inhabited by these familiar forms. The distinguishing features
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given by Mr. Dean are excellent. There is generally that intangi-
ble something which is apparent to the experienced eye by which
they may be separated, a difference more particularly in the texture
of the epidermis than anything else; but even this difference is not
always visible to my eyes, and I have handled many specimens that
were so puzzling and close that I have been obliged to ask, “‘ Where
did they come from?” before ] even dared to guess what they were.
Generally /uteolus is solider, more inflated, wider posteriorly and
narrower anteriorly, as well as smoother than radiatus, but not
always. A specimen of radiatus in Dr. Lea’s collection from Lake
Champlain, collected by Dr. Ingalls (Museum No. 85035), is very
solid, and as much inflated as U. hydianus, is narrow before, and
broad behind, and can only be distinguished from Juteolus by the
color and texture of the epidermis.
It was one of the great objects of Dr. Lea in making his collection,
to get material from all the different parts of the territory through
which the species were distributed, to get all the variations possible,
and carefully preserve the name of the collector, and the record of
the place in which they were obtained. Had he never done any-
thing more than get together in this way this unequalled collection
—requiring, as it did, the educating and training of a corps of able
assistants in various parts of the world—he would have deserved
the gratitude of students of conchology for all time to come.
In this collection are varieties of radiatus of every possible form,
from a great number of localities; they vary from flattened and
almost lenticular, to oval, quadrate, elongated, obovate and inflated.
One of these shells from Newton Creek, N. J. (85058) which is
labelled Unio radiatus, has a smooth yellowish epidermis, save
when eroded, and I should unhesitatingly pronounce it M. luteolus
if it had come from Ohio or Indiana.
Are luteolus and radiatus ever found together? From the fol-
lowing table it will be seen that although U. luteolus is a Mississippi
drainage species, and radiatus belongs to the waters that flow into
the Atlantic, the habitats of these species considerably overlap.
This last includes only a few of the localities of specimens in the
Lea collection.
Unio radiatus. Unio luteolus.
Saratoga Lake, N. Y. Niagara Falls, N. Y.
eroy..N-. Y. Mohawk R., Erie, N. Y.
Little Lakes, Lycoming Co., N. Y. Genessee R., N. Y.
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Genessee R., N. Y. Cohoes Falls, Hudson R.
Ottawa, Can., Rideau Canal. Seneca Lake, N. Y.
Montreal, Can. Oneida Lake, N. Y.
St. Lawrence R., Thousand Isles. Moose R., Hudson Bay.
Camden, S. C. Lake Winnipeg.
Oguchee R., Ga. Athabaska Lake.
Savannah R. Great Slave Lake.
Charles Co., Indiana! Small Lakes, Mackenzie R.
Red River of the North.
New Mexico.
I have collected Unio luteolus in Eastern Colorado, and it is in
the General Collection of the National Museum from Mississippi
and Texas. It probably ranges from the Artic circle to the Gulf of
Mexico, and from the Rocky Mountains east to the Atlantic, except
in the southeastern states lying east of the Appalachian Chain. A
small form occurs in Canada and the more northern states, which is
quite solid, and has a dark, rather rough, brown epidermis, often
without rays, sometimes almost black, and in form and texture is
is strikingly like some specimens of U. Downiet from Southern Ga.,
but has uot a lurid nacre as the latter has. This was named Unio
borealis by A. F. Gray, and differs sufficiently from the type to be
considered a distinct species, but it connects insensibly through
forms found in Wisconsin and Michigan with the western shells.
One of these in the collection of Dr. Lea (85045) from Montreal,
was referred by him to radiatus. Other forms of this protean spe-
cies are so close to ligamentinus that it is almost impossible to sepa-
rate them and this is true of certain specimens of radiatus.
ON THE USE OF THE GENERIC NAME SCUTELLINA.
BY H. A. PILSBRY.
The name Scutel/ina was proposed by Gray in 1847, to replace
Scutella of Broderip, preoccupied by Lamarck for a genus of Echi-
noderms. It has apparently escaped the attention of malacologists
who have written upon this small but excessively interesting group,
that Agassiz, in 1841, used the name Scutellina for a genus of Echi-
noderms allied to Scutella Lam. This generic term is still in use, -
appearing in the latest publications relating to that group. It
Pee Qe
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therefore becomes necessary to substitute a new generic name for
the mollusecan Seutellina, and since the root of that word has become
associated with the Echinodermata, a change to something totally
different may be advisable. As a substitute, therefore, I offer the
term PHENACOLEPAS, “a deceptive limpet.”
The synonyms are as follows:
Scutella Bropertp, P. Z. S. 1834, p. 47 (in part).
Not Scutella Lamarck, An. s. Vert. ii, p. 7 (1816).
Seutellina GRAy, P. Z. 8. 1847, p. 168, and of authors generally.
Not Seutellina AGAssiz, Monogr. d’Echinodermes, Second Monog.
des Scutelles, p. 98 (1841).
DESTRUCTION OF ANODONTA CORPULENTA CPR. AT THOMPSON’S
LAKE, ILL.
BY W. 8S. STRODE, M. D., BERNADOTTE, ILL.
Recently while on a collecting trip to Thompson’s Lake on the
Illinois River, I was greatly surprised at the immense number of
dead mussels that lined the shores from one end of this body of
water to the other.
A windrow of them extended a little beyond the water’s edge
clear around the lake a distance of not less than ten miles.
Upon going on to the lake in a boat I found that dead shells, with
the animal still in them, were also floating all over its surface.
There was absolutely thousands of them and it certainly amounted
to extinction of a very beautiful and interesting species, the Ano-
donta corpulenta of Cooper.
The other Anodonta, the suborbiculata of Say, for which this lake
is headquarters, did not seem to be affected and there were not more
dead ones to be seen than in previous years.
I immediately set about to ascertain the cause of this wholesale
destruction of the corpulenta.
On enquiring of Captain Schulte and other fishermen who owned
the lake, they had but one theory as to the cause, and that it was
the common northern bull-head catfish, Amiwrus nebulosus L. S.,
that was doing the mischief.
They explained that this fish would attach his wide mouth over
one end of the shell and suck until the muscular power of the mus-
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sel was exhausted, the shell relax, when the juices would be with-
drawn, after which the animal would die.
On further enquiry I could find no one that had ever caught
Mr. Catfish in the act, and I was not altogether satisfied with this
theory.
This lake, in common with the Illinois, Mississippi and nearly all
of the western rivers, is at lower ebb than ever before known in the
history of the country. From accounts in the daily papers there is
great mortality among the fish of the Mississippi River, and immense
numbers are dying as a result of this low water.
Might not this be the cause of the death of the mollusks in this
lake? Is the same phenomena observed in other bodies of water?
Let us hear from other points. Or, have the catfish in this lake,
like an egg-sucking dog, learned a trick and are making the most
of it.
ON THE BYSSUS OF UNIONIDZ. II.
BY DR. V. SEPERKT.
Some time since I succeeded, not without hard work, in finding
three more specimens of Unio with a byssus, one U. luteolus Lam.,
15 mm. long, one U. (prob.) ligamentinus, only 9mm. long, and U. ?
8mm. Unfortunately I had not leisure to make an examination as
exact as I wished; yet to my account in the last NautiLus I can add
the following: the threads were for the most part colorless, or only
slightly brownish. On the parts examined I found the cortical layer
little developed. The byssus were more or less branched ; ona piece of
one about three inches long, I counted seven branches. Of the forma-
tion of these I can give an idea best by comparing them with a grass
stalk: the branches sprung out from like leaves with short sheath, the
latter with circularly arranged fibres, apparently not derived from
the inner part of the “stem,” but at a short distance, the branch, first
flat, like a leaf, further off growing more or less cylindrical, was
entirely composed of longitudinal fibres, which consequently are
formed for themselves by apposition and the main thread is not
split.
Later I had a chance to get some other very young mussels, among
which was one only 3°5 mm. long, the smallest I have found so far,
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and none of them hada byssus. Possibly it was detached while
being caught and washed—with other materials—in the net.
A NEW SPECIES OF LEUCORHYNCHIA.
BY H. A. BELSBRY-
Leucorhynchia Tryoni Pilsbry.
Shell having the contour of L. Crossei Tryon, but larger, the um-
bilical tongue of callus much smaller. The margin of the umbilicus
has several strong lobes or teeth. Surface smooth except the first
half of the base, in front of the aperture, which shows about eight
radiating grooves. Color white.
Alt. 2°8; diam. 3°8 mm.
Collected at Singapore by Dr. S. Archer.
Four specimens are before me. This group is considered by
Fischer a subgenus of Teinostoma H. & A. Adams. Leucorhynchia
was founded by Mr. H. Crosse in 1867, for a species from New
Caledonia. In 1888, Mr. Tryon, in his monograph of Teinostoma
described a second species as T. (Leucorhynchia) Crossei.
The subgenus now consists of three species which may be distin-
guished as follows:
Umbilical lobe of callus large ; surface smooth,
Periphery carinated, LI. Caledonica Crosse.
Periphery rounded, L. Crossei Tryon.
Umbilical lobe small; base radiately grooved,
Periphery rounded, L. Tryoni Pilsbry.
LAND SHELLS OF VANCOUVER ISLAND.
BY G. W. TAYLOR, ST. BARNABAS RECTORY, VICTORIA B. C.
. Selenites Vancouverensis (Lea).
. Selenites sportella (Gould).
Limax agrestis Linn.
. Limax hyperboreus Westerlund.
. Vitrina Pfeifferi Newcomb.
. Hyalina arborea (Say).
. Hyalina milium (Morse).
WIAA PwnNe
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8. Hyalina Binneyana Morse.
9. Conulus fulvus (Miller).
10. Pristiloma Lansingi (Bland).
11. Pristiloma Stearnsi (Bland).
12. Ariolimax Columbianus (Gould).
3. Prophysaon Hemphilli Bland & Binney.
14. Prophysaon Pacificum Cockerell.
15. Patula striatella (Anthony).
16. Patula asteriscus (Morse).
17. Punctum minutissimum (Lea).
18. Punctum conspectum (Bland).
19. Lysinoe fidelis (Gray).
20. Mesodon Columbianus (Lea).
21. Mesodon devius (Gould).
22. Stenotrema germanum (Gould).
23. Pupilla corpulenta (Morse).
24. Vertigo simplex (Gould).
25. Vertigo ovata Say.
26. Ferussacia subcylindrica (Linn.).
27. Succinea Nuttalliana Lea.
28. Succinea Oregonensis Lea.
29. Succinea rusticana Gould.
30. Onchidella Carpenteri W.G. Binney.
31. Onchidella borealis Dall.
32. Carychium exiguum (Say)?
LIMAX AGRESTIS LINN. ON THE PACIFIC COAST.
BY G. W. TAYLOR.
In the October number of the Naurrius, Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell
writing of Limaz agrestis, recorded its occurrence at Portland, Oregon,
and remarked that he believed this to be “the first record of the
species from the Pacific Coast.” However two years ago I myself
noticed the introduction of the species into this part of the world, in
a little paper on “The Land Shells of Vancouver Island” published
in the Ottawa Naturalist, vol. 3, p. 84, ete. (December, 1889.)
I believe that I first observed this slug about seven years ago in
the Victoria gardens, and it has since developed into a dreadful
pest. There cannot I think be any doubt as to the species being an
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introduced one as it has not yet been noticed in any part of
Vancouver Island other than in Victoria, and the specimens
resemble British ones in every respect save that the milky slime is
not nearly so copious. The principal varieties occurring here are
those that Mr. Cockerell would call sy/vaticus and varians. I have
appended to this note a list of the Terrestrial Mollusca of Vancouver
Island as at present known to me. Further information concerning
their occurrence may be found in my paper above referred to, a copy
of which I shall forward with pleasure to any conchologist who may
desire it, so long at least as my stock holds out.
GENERAL NOTES.
Pura HouzrncGerti STeRKI, IN OnI0. Three, specimens of this
Species occurred among other small species collected last spring at
Put-in-Bay Island, Lake Erie. A comparison with specimens
received from Dr. Sterki leaves no doubt in my mind as to the
identification — Bryant Walker, Detroit, Mich.
Unio compLANATUS Sou. IN NorTHERN Micuican. In the
Navtitus for June 1889 (vol. 3, p. 16) I recorded the discovery of
an isolated colony of this species at Ocqueoce Lake, in the northern
part of the lower peninsula, and queried as to how it got there.
Since then I have found the species in the St. Mary’s river at Lime
Island, Michigan. The occurrence of the species at this locality
would seem to make it probable that it will be found quite generally
distributed through the upper peninsula and also affords an expla-
nation for the existence of the Ocqueoe colony.—Bryant Walker,
Detroit.
New JAPANESE SHELLS. Terebra Stearnsii, n. sp. Shell large,
much elongated, having 22 whorls remaining, the apical portion
(probably + the entire length) being broken off. The whorls are
narrowly but distinctly shouldered just below the suture. The sur-
face of the body-whorl is divided into three subequal parts by two
spiral grooves, and below the lowest of these grooves there are sey-
eral others. Base cut by about 15 unequal impressed lines ; growth-
striz faint. Whitish, with a single series of brown spots. Total
length 105, breadth 173 mm.; length of aperture 12, breadth 7
mm.
Thylacodes meduse n. sp. Shells large, generally clustered,
resembling Thylacodes polyphragma Sassi, of the Mediterranean, but
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the sculpture (consisting of spaced longitudinal cords, the intervals tri-
striate), continuous around the whole circumference of the cylinder.
Aperture circular, its diameter averaging 13mm. _ For illustrations
see Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1891.—H. A. Pilsbry.
Foopor Linn. Our fresh-water snailsare generally believed
to be herbivorous. But they greedily feed upon animal matter when-
ever and wherever they find such ; on insects, worms, mollusks (even
their own species), flesh of any kind, even when living. A Limnea
palustris was seen last summer having a small leech (about 3 em.
long and 4 mm. wide) in his mouth; he slowly drew it in and rasped,
while the victim was moving and winding about in vain efforts to
escape. This I observed for about half an hour, but had not seen
how the snail had caught the worm. Afterward the Limnza held
the leech, its anterior part projecting and constantly moving, firmly
in his mouth, not rasping, now resting, now creeping about as usual,
for an hour and a half more. At that time I had to go away and
when I came back no leech was to be seen; whether it was eaten or
dropped I do not know.
When these animals are grazing on stones, glass walls in the
aquarium, on leaves, or on each other’s shells, they always find a
good supply of small animals besides alge, etc., as anyone knows
who has examined those “ pastures.’— Dr. V. Sterki.
ADDITIONAL MoLuusks OF SAN FRANcIsco County. Since the
list by Mr. Wm. J. Raymond and myself was published in the
September number of Toe Nautitus, I have found five more species
as follows:
Limax agrestis Linn.
LTimax maximus Linn.
Prophysaon Andersoni J. G. C. var. marmoratus Ckll.
Acmeea fenestrata Nutt.
Mopalia Wossnessenskii Midd. var. Swansii.
Making the total number found up to date, 126 species. But two
specimens of Limax maximus have I collected, they being apparently
young specimens.-— Williard M. Wood.
PLANORBIS TRIVOLVIS Say, and also other related forms, has a
peculiar way of moving on or in sand; he goes “a step,” as far as he
conveniently can, with the shell deep down and close to the head ;
then he pushes it forward and upward, thus shoving the sand away,
and making room for another “step.” It is more than probable
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that this digging is done not merely for locomotion—for he could do
it much easier—but in search of food—Dr. V. Sterki.
SoME OBSERVATIONS on how snails move their odontophores, may
be of interest, and more should be done in this direction. Limnaide
feeding on glass are easily observed, if not by the naked eye, then
with a good glass. In Planorbis the radula is narrow, and is moved
from behind forward—as seen in quite a number of species. Physa
moves its wide, expanded radula from the sides toward the middle,
not forward. Limnea moves it forward, but not as decidedly as
Planorbis, and at the same time somewhat from the sides to the
middle. These different ways will be found to correspond with the
formation of the teeth in the different genera.—Dr. V. Sterki.
EXCHANGES.
Mr. A. W. Hanuam will be glad to correspond with members of
the American Association of Conchologists with a view to exchang-
ing land and fresh-water shells. Address, Bank of British North
America, Quebec, Canada.
WantrEep—Zonites from any locality in exchange for British
Land and Fresh-water shells—Robert Walton, Charles St., Lower
Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pa.
Norruwest Louisiana land and fresh-water shells for exchange.
Wanted, other shells— 7. Wayland Vaughan, Mt. Lebanon, La.
ANODONTA SUBORBICULATA Say. I have fine specimens of this
beautiful Anodonta, as well as many other Unionide for exchange.
—W.S. Strode, M. D., Bernadotte, Illinois.
JAPANESE SHELLS. A large variety of Marine, Fresh-Water and
Land Shells of Japan and of the Bahamas, my own collection,
printed list—To exchange for species not now in my cabinet from
any part of the world; rare American Unionide, Strepomatide etc.,
desired.— Frederick Stearns, Detroit, Michigan.
OBITUARY.
DR. JOHN CLARKSON JAY.
Dr. John Clarkson Jay, a son of Peter Augustus Jay and grand-
son of Chief Justice John Jay, a distinguished member of the First
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Continental Congress, died at his home, “ Rye,” at Rye, Westchester
County, N. Y., on Sunday, being in the eighty-fourth year of his age.
The immediate cause of his death was senile gangrene. Mr. Jay
was graduated from Columbia College in 1827, and afterward took
his diploma as M. D. Upon his marriage with Laura Prime, a
daughter of Nathaniel Prime, a well-known banker, he left the
practice of medicine and for a short time was engaged in the bank-
ing business, but in 1845 retired from both business and professional
pursuits, to live at the country seat at Rye, on Long Island Sound,
left to him by his father’s will. This beautiful residence gave him
full occupation, as it embraced upward of 400 acres of land.
Dr. Jay was well known in the scientific world as a specialist in
Conchology, and his collection of shells was for many years the most
noted in the United States. It was purchased several years ago by
Miss Catharine Wolfe, and presented by her to the American
Museum of Natural History.
Dr. Jay was for many years a trustee of Columbia College, was
one of the early presidents of the old New York Club, and was one
of the founders of the New York Yacht Club. He was a Republican
in politics, and one of the early members of the Union League Club
of this city. An Episcopalian, he was a moderate Churchman,
strict in his own religious observances, but not in the least intolerant
as to the views of others.
Dr. Jay was also actively interested in the Lyceum of Natural
History (now the New York Academy of Sciences) and was its
Treasurer from 1832 to 1843. At this time he was a man of twenty-
five or thirty, of light complexion, open and pleasing countenance,
and somewhat nervous temperament. During his more vigorous
years Dr. Jay was much interested in aquatic sports and was the
owner of a famous yacht called “ Coquille.’ The valuable addition
to the treasures of the Natural History Museum purchased by Miss
Wolfe is now known as the Jay Collection. The shells gathered
during the expedition to Japan under command of Commodore
Matthew C. Perry were submitted to Dr. Jay and he wrote the
article on them that appeared in the Government Reports. Dr. Jay
was the author of “ Catalogue of Recent Shells,” which was published
here in 1835; “ Descriptions of New and Rare Shells,” and of later
editions of his Catalogue, in which he enumerated about 11,000 well-
marked varieties and about 7,000 well-established species.
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VOL. V. JANUARY, 1892. Now:
ON SOME TYPES NEW TO THE FAUNA OF THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS.
BY WM. H. DALL.
Dr. G. Bauer has recently made some energetic and praiseworthy
explorations in the Galapagos Islands, with the view of obtaining
material for a discussion of the origin of their fauna. Among
other things obtained was a series, small but extremely interesting,
of the land shells of the various islands of the group. This collee-
tion in all probability is not exhaustive, but it seems by far more
complete than any yet made at this point and a full report upon it
is in preparation by the writer. Among the mollusks, which com-
prise a large number of races of Bulimulus (of the sections Pleuro-
pyrgus, Nesiotus, Raphiellus, etc.) and Succinea (S. Bettii E. A. S.)
are four minute forms each of which introduces a wholly new group
to the faunal list of Galapagos land shells. Preliminary descriptions
of three are appended ; the fourth is a Pupa of the usual Antillean
type.
Helicina (Idesa) nesiotica n. s.
Shell small, depressed, four-whorled, with periphery rounded, base
moderately arched, and peristome not thickened nor reflected; epi-
dermis of a bright reddish-chestnut, polished, but with very evident
and regular incremental lines, base with a thin white callus merg-
ing into the lower lip without notch or angle; spire depressed,
suture very distinct, not channelled; operculum smooth, whitish,
angulated only at the upper extreme; alt. of shell 2:3, max. diam.
3.5 mam,
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Found on leayes of plants on Chatham Island at an elevation of
1600 feet above the sea.
No species of this family has been reported from the Galapagos
before. The type is not unknown in the Panamic region but is said
to be absent from the west slope of the Andes.
Leptinaria chathamensis n. s.
Shell small, horn-colored, with a blunt apex and six rounded
whorls; suture very distinct, surface polished, delicately marked
with lines of growth; base rounded, widely umbilicated; aperture
with the margin hardly thickened ; rounded in front and at the
suture; pillar broad, thin; body with a single elevated thin, sharp
lamina, extending spirally inward from a point a little behind the
peristome and nearly equidistant from the inner and outer lips.
Alt. of shell 3:0, max. diam. 1°6 mm.
Chatham Island, on ferns at 1600-2000 feet above the sea.
Somewhat analogous forms are found in the mountains of the
Panamic region.
Zonites (Hyalinia) Baueri n. s.
Shell small, horn-colored, polished, with four whorls; periphery
subangular or rounded; dome of the base more elevated than that
of the spire; suture distinct ; surface with delicate incremental lines
and finely grooved throughout by sharp but microscopic spiral striz.
Aperture rounded-lunate without sharp angles, wider than high ; lip
sharp, unreflected, throat unarmed; base minutely perforate; alt.
of shell 1°5, max. diam. 2°2, min. diam. 1°6 mm.
South Albemarle Island on weathered bones of tortoises.
The single specimen of this very interesting form may not be quite
adult, and therefore the slight tendency to angulation on the
periphery may be lost in the full-grown shell. The absence of any
form of Helix or Zonites has been commented on by most of those
naturalists who have treated of the Galapagos shell fauna and it
was certainly a most extraordinary deficiency from any point of
view. This discovery of Dr. Bauer’s removes the most striking
anomaly of the fauna.
In addition to the above Dr. Bauer obtained specimens of an un-
described Bulimulus (Pleuropyrgus) which had also been collected
by Dr. Habel on his visit to. the Galapagos in 1868. Dr. Habel
presented the writer with specimens on his return and these have
been named in manuscript by Dr. R. E. C. Stearns B. (Pleuro-
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pyrgus) Habeli. This species is distinguished from B. (P.) Chem-
nitzioides by its nearly smooth polished surface, light-brown spiral
bands on a white ground and usually more slender form. It has
about fifteen whorls, a blunt apex and rounded base. It measures
18:0 by 3°5 mm. It was also collected on Chatham Island by the
U.S.S. Albatross on her late voyage from Norfolk to San Francisco.
It does not appear among shells enumerated by Wimmer from the
Habel Collection in his catalogue of the Galapagos mollusk-fauna.
A NEW SPECIES OF ZONITES FROM ARKANSAS.
BY H. A. PILSBRY.
Zonites Brittsii n. sp.
Shell imperforate, depressed, obtusely angled at the circumference,
about equally convex above and below. Color yellowish-green,
somewhat translucent, becoming light straw-yellow and opaque on
the last fourth of the last whorl. Surface shining, having oblique
strize under the sutures, the growth lines being quite light on the
rest of the surface; base seen under a lens to be very densely con-
centrically striated. Whorls 6. Base slightly indented at the axis.
Aperture slightly oblique, depressed-lunar, the outer and basal walls
lined with a heavy, opaque-white calcareous layer.
Alt. 5, greater diam. 8°5, lesser 7°77 mill. Aperture, oblique alt.
4, width 5°6 mm.
Hot Springs, Arkansas.
This species was collected by Mr. Jonn H. Brirrs, and sent by
him to the collection of the American Association of Conchologists,
where the types may now be seen. ‘They were submitted to the
writer by the President of the Association.
The more prominent characters of this shell are its imperforate
base, depressed, almost quoit-like form, the base closely concentric-
ally striated, the shining surface, and the contrasting colors of the
last whorl.
Mr. Britts sent also, specimens of the rarely found 3-toothed form
of Helix appressa Say, from Booneville, Mo., and a number of other
interesting shells.
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SOME NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN FORMS OF VALLONIA.
BY DR. V. STERKI.
According to the investigations of Dr. v. Ihering’ this group
is to be separated from Helix and regarded as a genus, for anatom-
ical characters. The study of these forms seems to have been some-
what neglected in our country. These are some distinct and char-
acteristic forms and probably more will be found. Those known to
me at present are shortly pointed out in the following, in order to
direct the attention of conchologists to them and have them col-
lected wherever and whenever possible, with records of the natural
features of their habits.
1. V.pulchella Miller, the common form of the old and new
continents. Here it seems to be remarkably constant in its appear-
ance throughout the country, while on the other hand, slightly but
constantly different forms may be found in neighboring places.
Besides the smooth surface it is characterized by the slowly increas-
ing whorls, the inner ones being comparatively large, and the last
not so peripheric as in most of the other forms.
2. V.costata Miller. The typical form seems to be not gener-
ally distributed, in North America. It deserves specific rank, be-
side pulchella, and differs from the latter not merely by the rib-strize,
but by the more depressed spire, the more rapidly increasing whorls,
the last one being more peripheral, so that a costata may be recog-
nized, even when the ribs are wanting; generally it is also some-
what smaller; thus I found them in Europe as well as in this coun-
try. And the fact that the two forms keep distinct side by side, on
both continents, is in itself a strong evidence in favor of their being
different species. In some localities the one is found predominant,
or exclusively, in some the other, and frequently they are found
together.
3. From Illinois (Mr. Jas. H. Ferriss), lowa (Prof. B. Shimek
and Mr. Geo. W. Webster) and Kansas (Mr. Frank J. Ford) I have,
in 1890 and ’91, obtained a peculiar form: it is decidedly smaller
(in bulk about 3 of pulchella), strongly costate, the umbilicus com-
paratively wider than in costata, especially widening towards the
See by the last whorl receding to the periphery, so that the
1 Les Relations Naturelles des Cochlides et des Ichnopodes, Bull. Scient.
1891, p. 214.
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aperture is very narrowly coherent with the penultimate whorl, and
the aperture is circular, almost continuous, with a strongly thick-
ened lip. The first whorls are remarkably small, the last grows
rapidly in width and is more predominating than in the other forms.
The spire is flat, but the whorls are well rounded above and the
suture is very deep.
4. Ina lot of minute shells, kindly sent for inspection a few
days ago by Mrs. Judge Geo. Andrews, collected in damp moss on
rocks at the Cliffs on Holston river, near Knoxville, Tennessee,
there were a few specimens of a form nearly related to the preced-
ing, and of the same size, yet with peculiar characters: the umbili-
cus is very wide, the “ribs” less strong, the last whorl compara-
tively narrower, widening more gradually; the peristome is con-
tinuous, somewhat “ free” and the margin only slightly expanded,
thin with no lip-thickening.
5. Mr. Theo D. A. Cockerell sent me two specimens of V.
cyclophorella Ancey, from West Cliff, Colorado. They are of about
the size of a typical costata, densely rib-striate, the spire is higher
umbilicus a trifle narrower, the whole shell more compact in its
appearance. The whorls are more slowly and regularly increasing,
such as it is in pulchella, and the peristome is only slightly “reflected ;”
thin without a thickened lip.
Whether, and in how far, these forms are to be regarded as distinct
species, or partly rather as well marked varieties, will and can be
decided only after careful comparison of much more extensive
material from different parts of the country. The soft parts also
will have to be examined.
New PHILADELPHIA, Onto, Dec., 1891.
LIMAX AGRESTIS LINN. IN CALIFORNIA.
BY W. J. RAYMOND.
In the Naurixus for October and December are notes concerning
the earliest recorded appearance of this slug on the Pacific Coast,
from which it appears that Rev. G. W. Taylor first observed it
about seven years ago in Victoria, and recorded its presence there,
1 Containing also, Pupa contracta, curvidens, and Vert. Bollesiana.
102 THE NAUTILUS.
in the Ottawa Naturalist for December, 1889. I believe that the
species was brought into Oakland about the same time as into
Victoria, or, perhaps, a year or two earlier ; certainly in 1884-5 it
had become very abundant here, in gardens. In the Proce. Cal.
Acad. Sci., Second Series, Vol. I, p. 13 (issued Dec. 31, 1887) Dr.
J.G. Cooper published my observations on the presence of this Limax
in Oakland, and predicted that it would become a pest to gardeners,
as in fact it has done. This is the earliest published record of which
I have knowledge, and the specimens, sent to Mr. Binney at that
time, are probably those mentioned at the close of Mr. Cockerell’s
article. This slug is now gaining a foot-hold in San Francisco, for
Mr. W. M. Wood has lately submitted specimens, from that city, to
me, for examination, and has added the species to the San Francisco
County list.
CATALOGUE OF FISSURELLIDZ OF THE UNITED STATES.
BY H. A. PILSBRY AND C. W. JOHNSON.
A complete catalogue of the shells of the United States has long
been desired by the many collectors who devote their energies espe-
cially to American mollusks, and naturally wish to know just what
species are to be had. Mr. Campbell has already in these pages
catalogued the Haliotide, and from time to time other groups will
be taken up by various members of the American Association of
Conchologists.
The Fissurellide of our area may be easily known by these
peculiarities: the shell is limpet-like, and has either a perforation at
or near the apex of the cone, or a slit or notch in its front edge.
There are many anatomical characters also, peculiar to the family.
The group has been divided into three subfamilies, as follows :
I. Apex of shell entirely removed by the perforation, which is
bounded inside by a callus-rim which is not truncated be-
hind. Central tooth of the radula narrow. Shell entirely
external, FIssSURELLIN.
Il. Shell as in Fissurelline, but hole larger. Central tooth of
radula very broad, not narrowed above. Mantle wholly or
nearly concealing the shell. FIssURELLIDINE.
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III. Apex of shell subspiral, not removed ; or if it be removed, the
hole-callus inside is truncated or has a pit behind; or
there is a plate inside, as in Crepidula. Central tooth of
radula wide, EMARGINULINE.
Subfamily I. Fissurelline.
There is only one genus, Fisswrella.
A. Summit of the shell near the middle; basal margins level, not
elevated at the ends, Subgenus Fissurella.
a. Edge of shell not crenulated, dark-bordered inside-true,
Section Fissurella.
b. Edge of shell crenulated, not dark bordered inside, section,
Section Cremides.
B. Shell flattened, shield-shaped, the narrow hole in front of the
middle; ends of shell elevated, Subgenus Clypidella.
Genus 1. FissureLiLaA Brug.
1. F. volcano Reeve. Santa Cruz, Cal., southward.
(Section Cremides H. & A. Ad.)
2. F. barbadensis Gmelin. Charlotte Harbor, Fla., southward.
One of the commonest West Indian shells, easily known by its
almost circular perforation.
3. F. nodosa Born. Florida Keys.
The ribs are nodular, orifice oblong.
(Subgenus CLYPIDELLA Swains.)
4. F. pustula Lam. Cape Lookout, southward.
5. F. fascicularis Lam. Florida Keys.
The anatomy of these is not known. Collectors should preserve
specimens of the animal.
Subfamily II. Fissurellidine.
A. Mantle entirely or nearly covering the shell; hole large.
a. Edges of shell nearly level, beautifully crenulated,
Lucapina.
b. Edges of shell elevated at each end, blunt at the sides, not
crenulated, Megatebennus.
B. Mantle not enveloping the shell.
a. Perforation about central, the shape of the shell,
Lucapinella.
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Genus 2. Lucaprya Gray, 1857.
6. L. crenulata Sowb. Monterey to San Diego, Cal.
The largest and most beautiful of the American Fissurellide.
DL. adspersa Phil. Key West, Florida.
(Fissurellidea fasciata Pfr. of authors.)
8. DL. cancellata Sowb. Tortugas.
The edges of the hole are bluish-black.
~I
Genus 3. MEGATEBENNUS Pilsbry, 1890.
9. M. bimaculatus Dall. Monterey, Baulinas Bay, Purissima and
Lobitas, Cal.
(Clypidella bimaculata of collectors.)
Genus 4. Lucaprineua Pilsbry, 1890.
10. L. callomarginata Cpr. Lobitas and San Diego, Cal.
11. LZ. limatula Reeve. Key West, Florida.
Subfamily HI. Emarginuline.
A. Apex absorbed by the hole, which is bounded inside by a pos-
teriorly-truncated callus, Fissuridea.
B. Apex absorbed or remaining; anal fissure either a hole or a
slit in the front margin; no hole-callus, but having a more
or less developed septum back of the hole or slit.
a. A perforation at apex or on front slope, Puncturella.
C. No internal hole-callus or septum ; apex not absorbed.
a. Having a distinct slit in front, and a slit-band extending
from it to apex, Emarginula.
b. Having a hole on the front slope, Rimula.
c. Slit short ; no slit-fasciole, Subemarginula.
Genus 5. FissurtDEA Swains, 1840.
This name was proposed for a highly arched species from the
Philippine Is. It has hitherto been regarded as a subgenus of Fis-
surella. Its synonymy is as follows:
Fissuridea Swains., Malacol., p. 856, 1840, type F. galeata Helbl.
Glyphis Carpenter, P. Z. 8.1856, p. 225, type G. aspera Esch.
Not Glyphis Agassiz, 1843, nor of Gibbes, 1848, a genus of fishes.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
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(Atlantic and Gulf coast species.)
F, Listeri Orb. Florida Keys.
A strongly latticed species, related to the F. grewa of the
Mediterranean Sea.
F, fluviana Dall. Florida Straits, 76-100 fms.
F. alternata Say. Chesapeake Bay, southward.
Dead specimens have been collected at Cape May, N. J. by
Prof. C. LeRoy Wheeler, but the species is not found there
living.
F. Tanneri Verrill. Off Delaware Bay to Hatteras, in 104-142
fms.
F. minuta Lam. Turtle Harbor, Fla.
According to Deshaves, this is not the minuta of Lamarck ; We
believe, never-the-less that it is. If not, however, it will be
called F. granulata Anton. It is often called by Reeve’s
later name, gemmulata.
Several other small species, allied to minuta will probably be
found in Florida, such as F. variegata Sowb., F. arcuata Sowb., ete.
Le.
18.
19.
20.
( West coast species. )
F’. aspera Eschscholtz. Sitka to Monterey.
The common West Coast form.
F. saturnalis Carpenter. Santa Barbara and San Diego, Cal.
This has been known universally as “Glyphis densiclathrata
Reeve,” but I am informed by Dr. Dall and Dr. Stearns
that Reeve’s shell is a young F. aspera.
(Fossil species.)
F.. redimicula Say. Miocene. Yorktown and James River,
Va.; Patuxunt River, Md.
Allied to F. alternata, but with far finer sculpture, and the
hole nearly round. F-. catilliformis Rodgers (Trans. Amer.
Philos. Soc. n. ser. vi, pl. 26, f. 4, 1839) seems to be a syn-
onym.
F. alticostata Conrad. Miocene. St. Mary's, Md.; James
river, Va. (See Foss. Sh. Med. Tert. Form. p. 28, pl. 44, f.
19.)
The type is in the Acad, N.S. Phil. coll. Typically quite dis-
tinct from redimicula, but transition forms collected by Mr.
Johnson in Va., seem to unite the two.
23.
24.
26.
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F, Marylandica Conrad. Miocene. Calvert Cliff, Md.
Types in Acad. Coll. Allied to F. tenebrosa Con., of the Ala.
Eocene. (See Fos. Med. Tert. p. 79, pl. 45, f. 4.)
F.. nassula Conrad. Miocene. St. Mary’s, Md.
Type in Acad. Coll. Distinguished from the following species
by its larger size,more depressed form, etc. The riblets are
notably equal, close, and not conspicuously latticed. (See
Foss. Med. Tert. Form. p. 78, pl. 44, f. 8.)
F.. Griscomi Conrad. Miocene. Stow Creek, betw. Salem and
Cumberland Cos., N. J. (See Foss. Med. Tert. Form. p. 78,
pl. 44, f. 8.)
Type in Acad. Coll.
F. tenebrosa Conrad. Eocene. Claiborne, Ala. (See Foss.
Med. Tert. Form. p. 39, pl. 14, f. 9.)
Type in Acad. Coll.
F. Mississippiensis Conrad. Eocene. (See Jour. A. N.S. P.,
2d ser., p. 113, pl. 11, f. 2.)
Allied to F. tenebrosa in sculpture, but the hole is quite differ-
ent. Type in Acad. Coll.
F. Carolinensis Conrad. Miocene.
A very distinct species, of which Mr. Johnson has collected
specimens on the Cape Fear River, N.C. (See Kew’s Rep. Geol.
Surv. N. C. I, 1875, p. 22, pl. 4, fig. 1.)
27.
28.
29.
30.
oe
32.
33.
34.
30.
36.
Genus 6. PuNcTURELLA Lowe, 1827.
P. noachina Linn, Circumpolar, extending south to Cape
Fear in deep water.
P. galeata Gld. Puget Sound.
Dr. Dall has lately described a mammoth variety of this
species (var. major), from Bering Sea; it will probably occur
in Alaskan waters.
P. Cooperi Carpenter. Catalina Id., Cal.
P. cucullata Gld. Puget Sound to Monterey.
P. cireularis Dall. Florida Strait. 539 fms.
P. eritmeta Verrill. Off Rhode Island, 1451 fms.
P. erecta Dall. Off N. Carolina, 107 fms.
Genus 7. Emarernuta Lam., 1801.
E. compressa Cantraine. ~ Fla. Strait in deep water.
E. bella Gabb. Monterey, Cal.
E. radiata Gabb. Eocene. California.
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We have not seen this species.
37. E.arata Conrad. Eocene. Claiborne, Ala. (See Foss. Tert.
Form. p. 44.)
A magnificent species, having some characters of Subemargin-
ula.
Subgenus Riwuxa Defrance, 1827.
38. R. frenulata Dall. W. Fla. and Keys.
Genus 8. SUBEMARGINULA Blainv., 1825.
39. SS. octoradiata Gmel. ‘Tortugas.
40. S. Rollandii Fischer. 8. Fla.
41. SS. emarginata Blainv. Florida Keys.
42. Cemoria crucubuliformis Conrad. Miocene of Cal.
We have not been able to find this species among Conrad’s
types. Its generic position is of course doubtful.
43. Cemoria oblonga H. C. Lea. Miocene. Petersburg, Va.
Type in Coll. A. N.S. P. (See Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc.
1843, p. 247, pl. 35, f. 37.)
We would consider this tiny shell a Rimula were it not that
there is no anal fasciole extending from fissure to apex, and
for the callus around the hole inside. These features cause
us to believe it a very young Fissuridea (“ Glyphis”), prob-
ably F. alticostata Conrad.
The authors will be glad to have any criticisms on this list, and
also any extensions of the geographic or geologic range of the
species.
GENERAL NOTES.
Foop or Swarts. Have kept since last May a dozen Helix albo-
labris in confinement. Have fed them 53 species of plants of which
number they have refused to eat but five species, as follows: Achil-
lea millefolium L.. Brunella vulgaris L., Vernonia nove boracensis
Willd., Xanthium Canadense Will. and a species of Euphorbia.
They generally prefer the tenderest plants but refuse some that are
tender and eat of others that are hard and stringy. They refuse the
stalk and leaves of young growing maize but dig down and eat the
germinating kernels. I kept them in a box with soil in the bottom
and wire on the top. The corn was planted in the soil and grew to
108 THE NAUTILUS.
the height of three or four inches. I shall continue these experi-
ments next summer.—Dr. G. D. Lind, St. Louis, Mo.
Mr. ELtwoop Puieas, of Dunreith, Indiana, has returned from
a very successful collecting trip in Alabama. He secured about
100 species of marine shells from the Gulf, nearly 20 species of land
shells, about 50 Strepomatidee and 50 Unionidee. About 250 spe-
cies of fossils were collected, many very large and choice specimens
among them.
EXCHANGES.
ExcHANGE.—Land, fresh water and marine shells from France
and all other regions—shells also purchased readily. Species of the
genus Pecten solicited— Mr. Bavay, Grand rue, Brest, France.
For Excuance.—tThe beautiful Anodonta suborbiculata Say and —
corpulenta Cp. from Thompson’s Lake, Il]. Also many fine Unios
from Spoon River, Ill. Fine Helix multilineata Say, and others.
Will exchange for any species, not in my collection, land or sea.—
Dr. W. 8S. Strode, Bernadotte, Ill.
A FEW NEW AND RARE SHELLS for exchange for other rare shells.
Clementia subdiaphana Carpenter, Nassa californiana Conrad, Sur-
eula carpenteriana Gabb, Cancellaria crawfordiana Dall.—J. 8.
Arnheim, 8 Stewart St., San Francisco, Cal.
ExcHANnGE.—Offered British shells, land, fresh water and marine,
for other shells not in my collection —E. R. Sykes, 15 Doughty St.,
London, W. C., England.
Wanrep.—Pacifie Coast land and fresh water shells, slugs in-
cluded. Will give British land and fresh water and marines, or
Virginia land and fresh water species. Address, Capt. W. J.
Farrer, Box 45, Orange, Va.
OrreRED— Helix profunda, tridentata, albolabris ; Zonites fulgi-
nosus, inornatus, ligerus; Patula perspectiva, alternata ; Selenites
concavus ; Physa heterostropha ; Spherium striatum; Ancylus fuscus.
Wanted, United States land and fresh water shells.—S. H. Stupa-
koff, E. E. Pittsburgh, Pa.
WanvreD.—Zonites from any locality in exchange for British land
and fresh water shells.—Robert Walton, Charles St., Lower Rox-
borough, Philadelphia, Pa.
Wanrep.—Vallonia from all localities—Dr. V. Sterki, New
Philadelphia, O.
Pee N BOTILus.
ee = = — = —— = —
Vot. v. FEBRUARY, 1892. No. 10.
MOLLUSKS OF DORCHEAT BAYOU AND LAKE BISTENEAU,
LOUISIANA.
BY T. WAYLAND VAUGHAN.
Dorcheat Bayou might, with some degree of propriety, be called
ariver. It is the largest stream crossed by the V. S. and P. Rail-
Road between Shreveport and Monroe.
It rises in Nevada County, Arkansas, flows across Columbia
County, in that state, into Webster Parish, Louisiana. Toward the
southern portion of Webster Parish, it widens out, and forms Lake
Bisteneau, which extends out of Webster Parish, forming the bound-
ary between Bienville and Bossier Parishes, and empties into Red
River, between Bossier and Red River Parishes.
I do not know precisely the length of Dorcheat. Its width and
depth are both variable, depending upon the flooding rains. When
I collected there in June, during low water, in same places one could
wade across without getting in water much over knee deep. The
stream was from twenty to fifty feet wide, I should judge. My
collecting was done near the railroad crossing. Here Dorcheat had
well defined banks, often composed of white sand or pebbles. These
pebbles are very note-worthy. In some places, they form the bed
of the bayou, and are fine places to collect from. \
Lake Bisteneau is almost thirty miles long. Its width varies
from thirty to sixty feet in summer to one mile in winter. There
are no well defined banks to Bisteneau, the land sloping down
gradually to the water’s edge. The bottom of this body of water is
abominable; one often mires almost to his waist in the nasty mud.
(109)
110 THE NAUTILUS.
This is a striking contrast to the firm, pebbly bottom of Dorcheat.
My collecting was done near Port Bolivar in Bienville Parish.
Before the railroad was built from Shreveport to Monroe, in high
water steamboats ascended Lake Bisteneau and Dorcheat Bayou to
the steamboat landing two miles from Minden, in Webster Parish.
This stream, Darcheat and Bisteneau really being one stream, is of
considerable interest on account of its shells. Of these it has a fair
number of species. There are some interesting facts presented as
regards the differences in the mollusks of the different portions of
this same stream; for instance: I could not find a single specimen of
Unio hydianus, castaneus, nigerrimus or turgidus in the portion of
Bisteneau that I examined, while all are very abundant in Dorcheat.
The specimens of castaneus were nearly all much thickened ante-
riorly, something that was not noticed in specimens of costaneus col-
lected elsewhere. The nigerrimus were larger and thicker shells
than any other specimens found here. The specimens of nigerrimus,
hydianus, castaneus and anodontoides, in Dorcheat, were found usu-
ally where they had bored into the sloping banks, about at the
water's edge. ‘The other specimens of Unio were found mostly on the
rocky bottom. I have only one mississippiensis from Dorcheat. It
was given me in a large lot of shells from there.
The anodontoides from Lake Bisteneau were large, heavy shells.
It was the most abundant species of Unionide there. The bottom
of Bisteneau in many places was almost covered with Campeloma
decisa, and Vivipara subpurpurea. Ammnicola cincinnatiensis was
very abundant.
The following is a list of the species with their localities.
Unio anodontoides Lea. Bisterneau, Dorcheat.
Unio boykinianus Lea. Dorcheat.
Unio castaneus Lea. Dorcheat.
Unio chunti Lea. Dorcheat.
Unio gracilis Bar. Bisteneau, Dorcheat.
Unio houstonensis Lea. Bisteneau.
Unio hydianus Lea. Dorcheat.
Unio lachrymosus Lea. Bisteneau, Dorcheat.
Unio mississippiensis Con. Dorcheat.
Unio multiplicatus Lea. Dorcheat.
Unio nigerrimus Lea. Dorcheat.
Unio purpuratus Lam. Bisteneau, Dorcheat.
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Unio pustulatus Lea. Bisteneau.
Unio pustulosus Lea. Bisteneau, Dorcheat.
Unio texasensis Lea. Bisteneau.
Unio trapezoides Lea. Bisteneau, Dorcheat.
Unio trigonus Lea. Dorcheat.
Unio tuberculatus Lea. Dorcheat.
Unio turgidus Lea. Dorcheat.
Unio zigzag Lea. Bisteneau.
Margaritana confragosa Say. Bisteneau.
Anodonta imbecillis Say. Bisteneau, Dorcheat.
Anodonta stewartiana Lea. Bisteneau.
Anodonta tetragona Lea. Dorcheat.
Spheerium transversum Say. Bisteneau, Dorcheat.
Campeloma decisa Say. Bisteneau, Dorcheat.
Vivipara subpurpurea Say. Bisteneau, Dorcheat.
Physa heterostropha Say. Bisteneau.
Planorbis trivolvis Say. Bisteneau.
Amnicola cincinnatiensis Anthony. Bisteneau.
(Extract from Proc. Cal. Acad. Sei. 2d. Ser., Vol. III.)
A NEW VOLUTOID SHELL FROM MONTEREY BAY.
BY J. J. RIVERS.
Scaphella (Voluta) Arnheimi.
Shell regularly formed, elongate-ovate; body whorl more than
two-thirds as long as the spire; the spire an inch long, and made up
of six whorls, the terminal nucleus being very small, pointed and
oblique, which latter character places this species in the section
Scaphella of Dall.
Ground color obscure yellow, covered by a layer of chalk-like
deposit. The body whorl has some coarse longitudinal elevations
and depressions, remnants of former lip extensions, and there are
two large patches of dark rusty red at a wide interval which do not
appear to form an interrupted band. The aperture is elegantly
formed and measures 1—% inches long by ¢ inch wide. The inner
lip is regularly outlined on the columella; columellar plaits four,
Lab * THE NAUTILUS.
sharply oblique, the last one strongest, forming a prominent ridge
parallel to the canal. The upper outlines of the mouth meet in a
sharp angle, but the base has a well defined bifurcation. The whole
of the aperture and the edge of the outer lip are heavily coated with
enamel of a yellowish tint, and rust stained. Size 34 inches long,
and 1% inches wide. Animal without operculum.
Dredged in Monterey Bay, California.
MORE ABOUT UNIO LUTEOLUS AND U. RADIATUS.
BY GEO. W. DEAN, KENT, OHIO.
I must admit after reading Mr. Simpson’s notes in the December
Navrixus that Unio radiatus is too erratic for my abilities. A
species that takes on every possible form I apprehend would baffle
any expert.
A specimen exactly like /uteo/us and wholly unlike radiatus as I
know it, although in the Lea collection labelled radiatus with the
locality Newton Creek, N. J., would, I fear, get into my collection
in the tray with /uteolus.
Locality is certainly important but with me does not overshadow
everything else, and labels have told me so many lies that I have
not the respect for them that I otherwise should have. With me
the shell is the central idea, not the locality or the label. These are
usually aids in determining species—not always.
Mr. Lea named a shell, now found in the Mahoning, Unio sub-
ovatus, though from what locality his types came I do not know.
It is now known to be the mature male of U. occidens Lea. The fol-
lowing are, I think, all occidens: U. ventricosus Barnes, U. ovatus
Say and U. cariosus Say. ;
Another Mahoning River shell Mr. Lea named U. kirtlandianus.
This is probably a variety of that protean species U. subrotundus,
Lea.
It is a beautiful shell when young and may very properly retain
the name as a variety.
I am in favor of weeding out the surplus names as fast as possible,
but I apprehend that both /uteolus and radiatus will remain good
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and well defined species, all attempts to connect them proving
failures.
I recognize the existence of abnormal sports and possibly hybrids
and albinos, ete. These I did not contemplate, nor did I consider
very young or old and eroded or decayed specimens. Barring these
I still think I could find a dividing line sufficiently distinct.
I have not seen the dark colored U. borealis Mr. Simpson mentions
but the types were furnished to Mr. Gray by Mr. Latchford of
Ottawa, Canada and were taken from the Ottawa river. Mr. Latch-
ford has given me a good suite of like specimens. They seem dis-
tinct enough for a good species but it is a close relative of luteolus,
so close indeed that very young specimens are not easily separated.
The glass, however, shows the lines of growth a little coarser and the
shell consequently a little rougher.
My mind still dwells on the wonderful vagaries of the Unio
radiatus as described by Mr. Simpson. I should have some dread
of looking over the Lea collection with him for fear of getting so
confused that I should not know my wife unless I had her labeled
and was sure of her locality.
ADDITIONAL U. 8S. FISSURELLIDE.
We are informed by Mr. T. H. Aldrich that two species were
omitted from the Catalogue of this family published in the last
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GLYPHIS ALTIOR Meyer and Aldrich.—Eocene, Ala. Jour. Cin.
Soc. N. H. 1886, p. 41, pl. 2, figs. 16, 16a, 16b. Described under
the genus Fissurella.
PUNCTURELLA JACKSONENSIS Meyer.—Eocene, Jackson, Miss.
Bericht der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu
Frankfort a. M., 1887, p. 6, pl. 1, fig. 15.
The types of both of these species are in the collection of Mr,
Aldrich.— H. A. P. & C. W. J.
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PALUDINA JAPONICA MART. FOR SALE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO
CHINESE MARKETS.
BY WILLIARD M. WOOD, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
While on my way down town to business from my residence
one morning, about nine o’clock, I found it necessary to pass
through Chinatown in order to reach a certain store where I
desired to leave an order, and while walking through the narrow,
crowded, ill-smelling streets of that portion of the city, which by
the way, contains some twenty-five thousand Chinese, my attention
was called to a very large flaring red sign, upon which were Chinese
letters, hung in front of a Chinese vegetable and butcher shop. I
stopped a few moments to glance down toward the bottom of this
sign, and saw a good sized wooden bucket. This was filled up to
the top with dirty looking water and little brown shells.
I examined one and found it alive. Now was my chance to
obtain a Japanese species for my cabinet; a species which I had
never seen alive in this State before.
I found the proprietor of the shop and said to him, “ Where did
you get these, John?” ‘Me no sabbe,” was his reply. Then I
ventured to ask him for how much he sold them, and again came
his reply, ‘“‘ Me no sabbe.” Just then a Chinamen who was stand-
ing by, turned around, and evidently saw that we could not make
each other understand, for he stepped up to me and said in very
good English, “What you want? I tell him. I speak English.”
By this fellow acting as interpreter, I found out that the shells in
the bucket were the first lot brought alive from Japan. He in-
formed me that they were called by the Chinese “Teen Law.” I
immediately asked him for the translation of this name. It means
Field Shell.
He went on to tell me that these shells were very good to eat, and
he had just bought some, intending to take them to his wife. She
would throw them into boiling water, letting them remain for a few
moments. Then they were to be taken out, the operculum removed,
and the foot separated from the soft body, salted, peppered and
eaten.
Having asked all the questions I desired, I thanked the inter-
preter and then purchased some, for which I paid the small sum of
ten cents per dozen.
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I visited the aforesaid Chinaman the next day intending to buy a
few more of the shells, but was told that so eager were the Chinese
in this city to eat the delicious meat of these shells that all of them
had been sold in a very short time after arriving from the Steamer.
Not knowing the exact name of this species, I forwarded a few to
my ever-helpful friend, Mr. Wm. J. Raymond of Oakland, Cal., who,
comparing them with some of his Asiatic Paludinide, found them to
be identical with a pair of specimens under the name of Paludina
Japonica, Mart.
While preparing some of the shells for my cabinet, I discovered
that each specimen contained inside, from twelve to eighteen young
shells, about the size of a small Sweeinea.
I have kept two of the larger specimens alive ina tumbler full of
water, changing it every two or three days, and often putting in a
piece of cabbage leaf for them to feed upon.
A gentleman who recently arrived from Japan, tells me that
children of the poorer classes go out in the rice fields, near Yokohama
and gather the shells, selling them for a few cents a quart.
As this was the first shipment to America of this species alive, and
it being also an additional species offered for sale in the markets of
San Francisco, I write the above, hoping that the same will be
recorded in the ‘“‘Nautitus” and will be of some interest to its
readers.
DO MOLLUSCA SHOW CHANGE OF CLIMATE IN NEW ENGLAND?
BY REY. HENRY W. WINKLEY.
A few days ago I received from Connecticut a series of shells
which I was asked to identify. The specimens being in all proba-
bility a species of Goniobasis, | was not only unable to identify,
since I know little or nothing of that genus, but also I had never
known an instance of that genus being found in New England. If
it is common in Connecticut will someone kindly inform me, and if
not, may I ask observers if there is a tendency among shells to
migrate in a northerly direction ?
Reasons for the above question are as follows: A change of cli-
mate is claimed for New England, said change bringing a warmer
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temperature and is probably due to the removal of forests. It is a
well-known fact that species formerly common on the coast of
Maine are now extinct, or nearly so, but these would indicate a
colder temperature of the sea.
In support of the changed climate of the land, botany has revealed
some proofs. The writer had just published a note on this subject
in “The Observer” when the above named shells were received,
and hence the question naturally arose, is this species a new-comer
from the south? I should be glad to hear from others, for I see no
reason why the mollusca may not give interesting facts as well as
plants or other animal forms.
[SELECTED. ]
ANTIPODEAN OYSTERS.
If I have a deep and lasting affection for anything in this world,
it is for oysters. Wherever I go, one of the first inquiries I make is
as to the oyster supply. If that is all right, I can look at the rest
of things through rosy spectacles. I find a bivalvular view of life is
always a cheerful one. I have made many strange acquaintances
among oysters in the South Pacific, but never had any great difficulty
in adapting myself to my company. You remember how wisely and
feelingly dear old Tom Moore sang on that point :
Tis sweet to know that where’er we rove
We are sure to find oysters delicious, if dear;
And when we are far from the beds that we love,
We have but to make love to the beds we are near.
I may not have quoted the lines quite correctly, but they are near
enough. The chosen Paradise of the oyster-eater is the North Island
of New Zealand, for there the oysters are not only delicious but
ridiculously cheap. Along theseashore in the lonely, sheltered friths
and inlets about Auckland, every rock consists of a mass of oysters
clustered together in a wonderful manner, but easily detached and
opened when you know how. ‘The best oyster-opening machine is a
Maori girl with a brad-awl. The Auckland rock oysters have long,
deep, ragged shells, but the oysters themselves are very small, plump,
and beautifully shaped, very sweet and not at all coppery or watery.
They are equally good raw, stewed, fried, frittered, or in a pie or
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timbale. If you want to get them in perfection, however, you should
sail down to the Island of Waihéké, in the Frith of Thames, fifteen
miles from Auckland, a veritable Fairyland. Have your fairy on
hand with her brad-awl; pick out a rock just awash at high tide;
sit under a tree-fern, or in the shade of the sail of your boat ; swallow
the oysters alive as they come from the nymph’s deft hands in their
pearly, cup-like shell; give each just one bite, to bring out all the
flavor, as it goes down; and offer up pzeans of praise to the Giver of
all good things. Charles Kingsley declared a genuine Havana cigar
was a thing to thank God for, and Charles Lamb wanted a form of
grace to be said after reading an interesting book. The soul of man
ascends to Heaven in gratitude, without a shadow of profanity, after
assimilating a peck or so of Waihéké oysters. They are the most
ethereal of all food. From time immemorial the Maoris have come
from all the neighboring parts, and even from long distances, every
summer, to feast on oysters in a particular bay at Waihéké. I have
been there often. It is worth a pilgrimage from the other end of the
earth. In the middle of New Zealand there are the famous Queen
Charlotte Sound oysters, round and flat, and very firm in flesh, with
just that sub-flavor of copper which some connoisseurs set such a
value on, but which I confess I am not very partial to. Not but
that I can eat a couple of dozen of Queen Charlotte Sound oysters
with pleasure at any time—when Auckland rocks are not to be had.
In the far south, at Stewart’s Island—Providence has been very
gracious to those people—superb oysters of quite a different kind are
obtained in vast quantities, just when Auckland rocks are out of
season. Stewart’s Island oysters are large, round, flat, symmetrical
oysters, which look simply splendid on the half-shell, and have a
grand flavor and plenty of it, which makes them invaluable for
cookery. aie Mena enesuent BST ocd Sneed deconte
+
ive A.
*
Tae N@urTiLus.
VOL. VI. JULY, 1892. No. 3.
SOME REMARKS ON NEW JERSEY COAST SHELLS.
BY JOHN FORD.*
Of the thousands of visitors to Atlantic City, Cape May and
adjacent seaside towns, perhaps not one-tenth part give a thought to
the myriads of living creatures other than human that sport in the
surf, dally in the pools or hide in the sheltering sands. Yet it is
not unlikely that the most superficial examination of these lowly
forms would convince the observer that even seaside resorts may
yield nobler pleasures than those of a physical nature only.
How many of these persons, I wonder, know that the despised
Sea Nettles (Medusee) often exhibit forms of surpassing beauty,
rivaling in structure the most delicate of laces! And who of all
the vast crowd think it worth while to note the wonderful variations
in structure of the many species of crabs, shrimp, sandhoppers and
other crustaceans dwelling between tides, and in some instances, in
sands above the surf? Yet few if any phases of animal life, not
even the transformation of a caterpillar to a butterfly, are as
* Editor of Nautitus,
Dear Sir:
The thought has occurred to me that many of the Nauritus readers would be inter-
ested, now and then, in articles less technical and scientific than those usually pre-
sented in its columns. In order to test the matter I take the liberty of offering for
insertion the subjoined chat regarding New Jersey Coast Mollusks and a few of
their neighbors. Very truly,
JOHN FORD.
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remarkable as the periodic metamorphoses of certain species belong-
ing to this order. Near the water’s edge, when the tide is low,
many other interesting creatures may be seen, including the sea
anemones with their parti-colored crowns of tentacles; and pretty
plant-like forms (Corallines) whose chief representative on the New
Jersey coast is the so-called
fox or squirrel-tail Sertu-
laria argentea Johnson.
To most persons this ap-
pears to be an ordinary sea
plant, but the careful stu-
dent knows that in each of
the tiny cells adorning the
undried specimen, dwells
one of the little architects
and builders of the whole
graceful structure.
None of these creatures,
however, are more worthy
of observation or study
than are the native mol-
lusks, reference to which is
the chief purpose of this
article. These dwell on
the entire coast in count-
less numbers, but they are
seldom exposed in quantity
except by southeastern
storms or gales which,
striking the beach breast
on, often tear up and carry
Fulgur canaliculata. large masses of sand with
their unfortunate occupants beyond the reach of succeeding tides.
It is not unusual for hundreds of tons of mollusks to be thus forced
from their homes and left to die of starvation and exposure. Quite
a number of the native species are edible. The first of these in
the order of demand is, of course, the oyster, Ostrea virginica ;
next, the hard shell clam, Venus mercenaria; third, that precious
favorite of all New York aldermen, the soft shell clam, Mya aren-
aria. He who has not eaten a dish of these on Coney Island beach
lod
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would be deemed by the said New York magnates a “very unfor-
tunate man” indeed. Less delicate in flavor than the latter species
are the common sea clams, Mactra solidissima, when not more than
half grown. Sea mussels, Mytilus edulis, are
also considered palatable though they are not
very highly relished in this vicinity. In New
York and New England, however, they are
much esteemed by epicures.
Among the fishermen of Long Island Sound
the large Conch, Fulgur carica, is often
utilized for soup. But the writer knows by
experience that this is not the kind of food a
delicate palate will long for.
Another edible species, and one far more
toothsome, is the little periwinkle, Litorina Lit-
orea, a species probably introduced from
Europe. Until recently they were quite rare
Mytilus edulis var. A
pellucidus. south of Raritan Bay, but at present a fine
colony may be seen on the flats a little west of the Inlet House at
Atlantic City. The pretty species, Litorina irrorata, a more south-
ern form, also edible, appeared in large numbers on the bay side,
near Longport, N. J., about three years ago, but
the conditions surrounding them changed shortly
afterward and the colony disappeared quite as
quickly and mysteriously as it came. A few spec-
imens may still be secured on the adjacent flats
but they are much less perfect than were those
' of the colony referred to.
Many of the shells produced by the several
species mentioned are well worthy of a niche in Litorina litorea.
the collector’s cabinet, especially so if taken alive and in situ.
Otherwise the more recent additions to the lip-edges are apt to be
injured by the action of the surf.
But there are hosts of other native shells besides
those referred to, that may be profitably utilized by
lovers of Nature’s handiwork. Among the most
prominent of these are the large pear-shaped Conch,
) 3 Fulgur canaliculata ; the several species of Pholades,
w=” Including the largest known form, Pholas costata,
Litorina irrorata. Which often secretes itself in the hardest limestone ;
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the canoe shells, Modiola plicatula; the razors, Solen americanus and
S. viridis ; the arks, Arca pexata and A. transversa ; the boat shells,
Naticaheros and N. duplicata ; the cup and saucer shells, Crepidula
plana, C. fornicata and C. glauca; the ladder shells, Scala hum-
phreysti and (rarely) S. lineata;
the scallops, Peeten irradians, the
adductor muscles of which are
J largely used for food, thousands of
gallons being sold annually by the
coast fishermen. In addition to
these there are several small species
belonging to the genera Columbella,
Pholas (Zirphza) crispata.
Nassa and others, making the entire number living between Brig-
antine Inlet and Cape May about fifty species. At no special point,
even on the most favorable occasions, can all of these
be obtained. A large share, however, may at times be
secured on the sea and bay shores near Longport, at
Townsend’s Inlet, Five Mile Beach and the Inlet two or
three miles northeast of Cape May. But there is no
locality known to the writer where species are so plenti-
ful as at Anglesea; here, during a short visit last sum-
mer, thirty-nine species were secured by him.
Nearly all of these were found living on a small cu. yum
peninsula about a half mile south of the Anglesea _ phreysii.
Hotel. Fulgur carica, the largest of our coast shells, were unusu-
Pecten irradians. Arca pexata.
Solen americanus.
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ally abundant, many of them being per-
fect in form, and exhibiting in the aper-
tures the rarest shades of crimson, pur-
ple and orange. Excellent specimens of
Natica duplicata were also found here in
situ, these offering a new revelation
to the collector as he saw, when
lifting them from their beds, fine jets of
water spouting in every direction from
the edges of each large saucer-shaped
foot. Both of these species were carried
to the hotel and boiled—the former
about ten minutes the latter two or three
minutes. This made the removal of the
animals an easy matter, leaving the lus-
tre of the shells and color of the aper-
tures uninjured. It should be remem-
bered that the peninsula referred to is
only free from water when the tide is
nearing its lowest stage; also that the
tide is low there at about the same hour
it is high in Philadelphia.
In conclusion it may be well to inform
the young collector that in the search for
sea shells at least three adjuncts are neces-
sary—a trowel for digging purposes, a
water-tight jar for preserving living speci-
mens and a good sized basket for large
shells. With these in hand, and a taste
for the work, there is no reason in the
world why he shouldn’t be both success-
ful and happy.
NOTES ON THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF SUCCINEA.
/
T. D. A. COCKERELL.
(Continued from last number.)
(10.) S. sillimani Bland. This also may have to be united with
elegans. Mr. L, B. Elliott sent me a specimen, pale horn
30 THE NAUTILUS.
color, fragile and thin, colleeted at Denver, Colorado. There
is a similar specimen in the Binney and Bland Collection.
(11.) S. salleana Pfr. A specimen in the Binney and Bland Col-
lection, from Alexandria, La., is white, and allied to S.
elegans.
(12.) S. wilsoni Lea. Mr. Singley sent me this from Brevard Co.,
Florida, and I make the following note: pfeifferi group;
may be a good species; amber color, rather shiny, more
obtuse and swollen than most pfeiffert. Agrees with Lea’s
description, but spire shorter than in his figure.
(13.) S. effusa Shutt. A specimen in the Binney and Bland Col-
lection is from Spring Garden Lake, Fla. A good species,
allied to pfeifferd.
Sect. II. Neritostome.
— Neritostoma (Klein) Morch.
(14.) S. putris L. 8. obliqua is generally not to be distinguished in
anything from this. I found putris in 1887 close to the
Cave of the Winds, at Niagara Falls. There is also a speci-
men from Niagara in the Binney and Bland Collection,
marked ob/iqua. Mr. Singley sent me specimens of obliqua,
collected in Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada. They approach
S. virescens Jeffreys (non Morel.) rather than putris, the
color being pale greenish-horn. One form, which may be
considered typical, was 16 mill. long, spire 53 mill. long, -
texture like putris. The other, which represented a variety,
was 15 mill. long, spire 3} mill. jong—a more globose shell,
which can probably not be separated from S. virescens Jeff.,
of Europe. Say’s var. ovalis is very near to this.
(15.) S. totteniana Lea. I received this from Mr. Singley, collected
by Mr. E. W. Roper at Revere, Mass. It is, I think, a good
species—an extreme form allied to virescens. Shell yellow-
ish-green, inflated and thin, whorls rounded, mouth broad,
spire short.
(16.) S. grosvenorit Lea. Specimens from Lee Co., Texas, were
kindly submitted to me by Mr. Singley. They comprised
two forms, one greenish and the other, which may be called
var. rufescens, reddish and more globose. The species is a good
———
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deal like putris, but smallish and spire longer; whorls con-
vex. It seems to be a good species. I have also seen it from
Alexandria, La., in the Binney and Bland Collection.
(17.) S. stretchiana Bland. I have seen this from San Francisco,
Cal. (G. W. Michael), sent by Mr. Singley. It seems to be
a small species of the putris group, allied to S. parvula
Drouét, of Europe. Reddish-horn, not very shiny, striate,
spire rather large. In the Binney and Bland Collection,
one from Washoe Co., Nevada, looks rather like avara, at
least in color; but another from Oregon is brown and
resembles the putris group. There is a form major Ancey,
ms. (sine deser.), nearly twice the size of the type, recorded
by Yarrow, from Pagosa, Colo.
THE SHELL BEARING MOLLUSCA OF MICHIGAN.
BY BRYANT WALKER, DETROIT, MICH.
Carychium exiguum Say. Common everywhere.
C. exile H.C. Lea. Although not as common as C. exiguum,
the localities where this form has been found indicate that it will be
found generally distributed over the state.
Limnea stagnalis L. PI. I, fig. 6.
Occurs all over the State, often in great abundance. An extreme
form, in which the body whorl is obtusely angulated, and the aper-
ture much enlarged, from Houghton Lake, Roscommon County, is
shown in fig. 6.
LL. stagnalis jugularis Say. PI. I, figs. 1, 2, 3.
I think this form is entitled to varietal rank. It is not as com-
mon as the typical form and seems to occur usually by itself. Fig-
ures 1, 2 and 3 from Black Lake, Presque Isle County, may be
referred here ; but the expansion of the lip, especially of fig. 1, is not
typical, and is probably due to some peculiar local conditions. All
the specimens from this locality are a pure translucent white. The
Physa fragilis of Mighels is probably a similar case in another
genus.
L. stagnalis sanctemarie. PI. I, figs. 4 and 5.
32 THE NAUTILUS.
This form from the Neebish Rapids of the St. Mary’s River is
well characterized by its small size, and the flattening of the upper
part of the body whorl, which gives a mammilliform appearance
to the short, rapidly acuminating spire. The relative size of this
variety and the typical Z. stagnalis is shown by comparing figs. 4
and 5 with fig. 6.
LI. ampla Migh. Houghton Lake, Roscommon County, is the
only locality I know of for this species. Specimens from there,
submitted to the late Dr. James Lewis, were so named by him. In
the form in which it is found in Michigan, it seems doubtfully dis-
tinct from LD. emarginata Say.
I. decollata Migh. Cited by Currier and DeCamp. I have with
some hesitation referred specimens from Mullet Lake, Sheboygan
County, to this form.
I. megasoma Say. Occurs in great abundance in the Higgins
River, Roscommon County; also found at different localities in the
St. Mary’s River. It seems to be confined to the northern part of
the state.
LL. refleca Say. PI. I, fig. 8.
Generally distributed over the state, and as usual in the genus,
exhibits a considerable degree of variability. In some forms it is
difficult to distinguish from L. palustris Mull. LL. wmbrosa Say is
cited by De Camp as distinct. Fig. 8 is a specimen with a remark-
ably expanded lip, from the River Rouge, Wayne County.
L. reflexa zebra Tryon. Occurs frequently, associated with the
type, and is easily connected with it in any considerable number of
specimens.
L. refleca exilis Lea. The specimens on which the citation of
this form in the catalogue of 1879 was based, are referred to the
type by Mr. Pilsbry. They differ sufficiently from the large form
usually found, as figured by Haldeman (Monograph pl. 8), although
the whorls are not as flattened as the typical exilis from the Western
States requires.
L. reflexa kirtlandiana Lea. This form is not entitled to more
than varietal rank. Specimens from the original locality in Ohio
agree very closely with examples from southern Michigan. Speci-
mens from the St. Mary’s River are more slender and more fragile, _
and are nearer to Utah examples received under this name from
Mr. Hemphill.
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L. reflexa scalaris. Pl. I, fig. 7.
Spire elongated, whorls rounded and suture deeply impressed.
This form, which occurs occasionally, associated with the type, in
the marshes at the mouth of the Rouge River, Wayne County, I
cited without sufficient consideration, in my catalogue of 1879 as
var. distortus Rossm.
I. columella Say. Southern part of the state but not abundant.
L. lanceata Gld. This may prove to be a form of L. reflewa. It
is cited in all the catalogues, but I believe wholly because the origi-
nal specimens came from the north shore of Lake Superior. Spec-
imens from Belle Isle, Detroit River, are said by Pilsbry to be close
to Gould’s types in the Academy’s collection.
L. palustris Mull. Found everywhere in great abundance and
variety. A striped form similar to D. reflera zebra is sometimes
found. Limnophysa fragilis Linn., cited by De Camp, would seem
to belong here. Dr. De Camp informs me that the L. intertexta of
Currier, cited in his catalogue but never described, is a form of this
species.
L. palustris michiganensis. PI. 1, figs. 9 and 10.
This form is similar to variety D, as figured by Haldeman in his
Monograph pl. 6, fig. 7, but is much smaller, the length being but
half an inch. It is very delicately striate and under the glass
shows many very fine spiral lines cutting the striz. The aperture
is just one-half the length of the shell. The lip is thickened by a
rib within the inner margin, which shows itself as a white band on
the outer surface. Spire acute, suture impressed, umbilicus small.
Haldeman’s figure above cited, if reduced nearly one-half, would
be an excellent representation of this variety; except that the
whorls are more rounded and suture more deeply impressed than in
this form. Figure 9 is from Ecorse and figure 10 from Greenfield,
Wayne County. I am indebted for examples from Oregon to Mr.
Pilsbry, who informs me that it ranges west from Michigan to
Washington.
L. binneyi Tryon. Cited by De Camp from Houghton Lake.
L. haydeni Lea. Cited by De Camp from Houghton Lake.
L. traskii Tryon. Cited by De Camp from Newaygo County.
L. contracta Currier. Higgins Lake, Roscommon County is the
only locality known for this curious form, It is either a semi-fossil,
extinct species or an inhabitant of deep water, as only dead speci-
mens have ever been found as I have been informed.
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LL. emarginata Say. A very abundant species through the north-
ern part of the state and of great variety. Its most characteristic feat-
ure being a thick heavy shell, usually pure white and usually quite
opaque, sometimes translucent. Specimens from Higgins Lake,
Roscommon County, exhibit great variety in the form of the aper-
ture which is frequently much expanded. Specimens from Sault
St. Marie approach very close to Haldeman’s figures of his L. ser-
rata (Mon. pl. 2, fig. 6-8).
LL. catascopium Say. An abundant and characteristic species of
the Great Lakes, and their connecting rivers. Specimens from the
north acquire the thick solid shell so common in emarginata.
LL. caperata Say. Cited by Miles, Currier, Smith and De Camp.
LL. cubensis Pfr. This form, hitherto known as ZL. umbiticata
Ads., has a range over the whole of the State.
LL. pallida Ad. Cited by Miles, Currier and De Camp.
LL. desidiosa Say. Very common everywhere.
LL. humilis Say. Very common and variable.
LL. galbana Say (?) The form thus doubtfully designated, if not
the living representative of Say’s fossil species, has never been
described. It has been found in Emmet, Grand Traverse, Alpena
and Oakland Counties, and would thus seem to have a wide range
through the state. It is a well marked form and seems to be sub-
ject to less variation than is usual in this genus.
L. bulimoides Lea. Cited by De Camp, “ found in ae
probably introduced by plauts.”
L. gracilis Jay. Reed’s Lake, Kent County, is the only Michi-
gan locality known for this species.
Physa lordi Baird. Northern part of the state. P. parkeri
Currier, from Houghton Lake, is generally considered a synonym.
P. aneillaria Say. Generally distributed over the State, and
exhibits a great degree of variability.
P. sayi Tapp. Very common. Cited by Currier and De Camp
as var. Warreniana Lea. Specimens from a small pond near
Traverse City, collected by Dr. Leach, are remarkable for the ten-
uity of the shell and the expansion of the outer lip. In some
instances the newly formed lip was so thin as to be completely
reflected back on the outside of the shell. Whether the local influ-
ences in this case were similar to those which, according to Prof.
E. 8. Morse, produced the Physa fragilis Mighels I cannot tell ;
but the two forms would seem to be identical.
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P. vinosa Gld. Originally described from specimens collected on
the north shore of Lake Superior, this species has been cited by
Miles, Currier, Smith and De Camp without further knowledge of
its occurrence. Recently, however, specimens from the Detroit
River and St. Clair Flats have been referred to this form by Mr.
R. E. C. Stearns, of the U. S. Nat. Museum.
P. anatina Lea. Although not cited from the western part of
the state, its occurrence in Washtenaw, Macomb, Lapeer and
Grand Traverse Counties show that it has a general distribution
through the eastern and northern part of the state. Mr. R. E. C.
Stearns, speaking of specimens from the Clinton River, Macomb
County says: “ Your specimens are the brightest and handsomest I
have seen.”
P. pomilia Con. Cited by De Camp as var. Showalteri Lea. I
am indebted to Mr. Streng for specimens from Grand Rapids.
P. gyrina Say. Very abundant and in great variety of form.
P. gyrina hildrethiana Lea. Very common everywhere.
P. elliptica Lea. Cited by De Camp, as are also P. oleacea Tryon
and Febigeri Lea, which are considered as synonyms by Tryon.
P. heterostropha Say. Common everywhere and in almost infi-
nite variety.
P. brevispira Lea. Specimens from the Detroit River have been
identified as this species by Mr. Pilsbry.
P. deformis Currier. This species, originally described from
Grand Rapids, is cited also by De Camp in his catalogue. Dr. De
Camp writes: “I do not believe that this is a distinct species.”
Aplexa hypnorum LL. Common everywhere.
A. hypnorum tryont Currier. Distinguished by its larger size and
deeper coloring.
A. integra Hald. Generally distributed through the state and
quite common. I follow Tryon in including Lea’s P. niagarensis
asasynonym. Mr. R. E. C. Stearns, however, informs me that
our Michigan species is niagarensis and that Haldeman’s integra is a
southern species not extending further north than Indiana. The
Michigan form agrees, however, with specimens received as P.
integra from the late Dr. Jas. Lewis.
To be concluded.
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GENERAL NOTES.
GONIOBASIS VIRGINICA IN Conn. The collection of the Ameri-
ean Asso. of Conchologists has received specimens of the above spe-
cies collected by Rev. Geo. D. Reid, from the Connecticut River, at
Deep River, Conn. This is not far from the mouth of the river,
and is, we believe, the eartermost locality reported for any species
of this family in the United States. The specimens are large and
well-developed, averaging over an inch in length. Both the smooth
form and the spirally lirate var. multilineata occur.
Mr. Wintrarp M. Woop, of San Francisco, California, has
gone ona collecting trip to Monterey Bay, where some new and
rare species have recently been found. He will remain there dur-
ing the month of July.
PLANORBIS MULTIVOLYIs.—I have lately received several speci-
mens of Planorbis multivolvis Case, collected in the Island of New-
foundland, by a friend engaged on a surveying staff. They were
found in the neighborhood of Brathurst Lake. I have not seen the
Michigan form, but Mr. Bryant Walker, to whom I submitted my
shells, tells me the Newfoundland specimens are “rather smaller
and thinner but identical in form.”— W. J. Farrer, Orange, Va.
EXCHANGES. *
CoLLEctrors who desire to dispose of North American Land,Fresh-
water aud Marine shells for those of California, will do well by
sending their exchange lists to Williard M. Wood, 2817 Clay
Street, San Francisco, Cal.
Pacirrc Coast, marine, land and fresh water shells, for land and
fresh water shells of the West Indies and South America, G. W.
Lichtenthaler, Bloomington, Ills.
Fosstts from the Silurian, Devonian Sub-carboniferous and Car-
boniferous, to exchange for other fossils, especially of the Creta-
ceous and Tertiary; send lists and receive mine. C. S. Hodgson,
Albion, Til.
Ate N ABTLus.
VOL. VI. AUGUST, 1892. No. 4
COLLECTING NOTES.
BY CHAS. T. SIMPSON.
During a brief vacation last Christmas, Mr. John B. Henderson,
Jr., of Washington, and the writer made a flying visit to the west
coast of Florida, in the vicinity of Tampa Bay, for the purpose of
collecting shells; and I have thought that perhaps a few notes on
our work might be of interest to the readers of the NauriLus.
The country throughout this region consists of ordinary sandy pine
land, interspersed here and there with ponds and hammock or hard-
wood tracts of from an acre or so to several miles in extent. This
region in general is one of the flattest on the globe, and as a con-
sequence the sea is in most places quite shallow and thousands of
acres of mud flats are often laid bare at very low tides or during
“ Northers,” affording wonderfully rich collecting grounds for the
naturalist. We fitted ourselves out with a five or six ton sail-boat
accompanied by a skipper and a good-natured cook, and with two
weeks provisions, a gallon of alcohol, a dredge, and several large
note books which were to be filled with original observations and
discoveries, we sailed away as eager for adventures as Lord Bate-
man.
I want to say to anyone who attempts to collect marine shells or
animals, that first and foremost it is all important to use the dredge.
This implement is so simple, so easily constructed, and is so efficient
that the merest tyro never ought to try to get along without it. A full
description of one and its mode of working can be found in Wood- |
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ward’s Manual of Conchology, and one that brings the matter down
to date will soon appear in a forthcoming paper by Dr. Dall on
collecting. We threw overboard our dredge in the warm bright
waters of Tampa Bay as the boat was brought up into the wind, and
awaited results. There is a certain kind of excitement about the
operation ; the jar and tremble of the rope as the implement—far
down out of sight—scrapes over the bottom, gathering in the treasures
of the deep, produces a sensation akin to that which an angler feels
when he gets a bite, or a sportsman when he sights game and
“draws a bead.” And this feeling reaches a fever heat when the
dredge is hoisted slowly, leaving a cloudy wake in the water, and its
contents are dumped into the screen.
Starfishes, echini, perhaps a big horseshoe crab or two, and,
mingled with living mollusks and fishes there may probably he dead
shells inhabited by various forms of hermit crabs, fish, sea-worms
and a dozen other kinds of life, many of which may be puzzling
even to an experienced naturalist. There is something wonderful
about all this, and entirely different from shore collecting; the
animals are taken in their homes, caught in the very act of carry-
ing on their ordinary avocations, and it is not to be wondered at
that they seem to havea kind of surprised appearance when they
are tumbled out indiscriminately on deck. There is always an
element of uncertainty about dredging that furnishes a mild excite-
ment akin to that of gambling. One throw, or a half dozen in
succession, may turn out to be “water hauls,” bringing up nothing
but mud or possibly sea urchins, and the “just once more before we
go away ” may bring up half a hundred species, some of them rare,
and all desirable.
The vicinity of Tampa Bay is rich in marine species and is classic
ground to the conchologist and the collector, it having been worked
over by Agassiz, Conrad, Stimpson, Spinner, and other noted men
who have passed on, and Drs. Stearns and Dall, Velie, Calkins, and
others who are still with us; and often a run along the shores of
some of the outer keys, or about the muddy, sandy bays, will reveal
shells enough to turn the head of even a steady-going experienced
conchologist. And at such times it always happens that when the
collector gets every bucket, and sack, and basket, and both bands
loaded down to the last limit with things that are good enough in
all conscience, and is miles away from his boat, he begins to run
upon numbers of such marvelously rare and beautiful things that
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he is tempted to throw away every thing he already has and begin
entirely anew.
Prof. Hornaday spoke the truth when he said that “the collector’s
life is a constant race for specimens.” In the few brief days we had
at our command we felt that we must “make hay while the sun
shone.” But dredging, though very delightful at first, when followed
up for eight or ten hours consecutively gets to be a good deal like
work, and hard, heavy, wet work too. So we did what I should
advise all collectors in similar circumstances to do ; we went ashore
during low tides and searched sometimes the sandy bays, the limited
areas of rocky shore to be found about that region, or the open
beaches ; and during high tide we dredged. One rocky bed laid
bare at low tide in Terraciea Bay was marvelously rich in Trito-
nidea tincta, Cerithium floridanum, Semele reticulata, Murex nuceus,
Cumingia tellincidea, Nassa consensa, Muricidea multangula, Uro-
salpine perrugatus, and some other forms not often found on the
sand,
Mrs. Mean’s injunction “while yer a gittin’ git a plenty” espe-
cially applies to the collector. One is prone when he sees anything
in great abundance to feel as though it was very common and was
hardly worth taking. Even the sight of a very rare mollusk in
quantities somehow lowers its value in one’s estimation. But the
old collector who has let such chances go a few times, and after-
wards where his entire stock of the same thing has run out, regrets
his folly, learns to take all he can get of anything that isgood. One
may find a species thrown up to-day by millions on a certain shore,
in excellent condition, and the next week, and for years afterwards,
he ‘may not run across a dozen individuals of the same. I had lived
near Tampa Bay for four years and collected industriously, but
throughout my whole residence I never found a hundred specimens
of Olivella mutica, dead or alive. During our visit the dredge
brought them up living, glittering like dew drops, by the handfuls.
We dredged over and over the ground on which I once obtained in
quantities of Venericardia tridentata and flabella, Parastarte
triquetra, and Pandora trilineata, and scarcely found a specimen,
while on the same ground we got a great many Tubonillas, an
abundance of Conus peali, and a half bushel or more Areca trans-
versa, not a specimen of which I had ever found there before; and
on a sand flat that used to gladden my eyes with Conus floridanus
not a single one could we find.
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The shell mounds—the Kitchen middens of prehistoric tribes—are
usually overgrown with tropical scrub, and are rich in land shells
as well as mosquitoes and sand flies ; and on one of these at Shaw’s
Point I rediscovered Zonites dallianus which I first found there
three years ago, and, at the time, supposed to be the very different
Zonites minusculus. In places the brackish water was swarming
with Cerithium minimum, and musearium, Melampus coffea, Macoma
constricta, Natica duplicata and its companion Melongena corona,
Lnucina Jamaicensis, Cerithidea scalariformis, Modiola plicatula, var.
semicostata, Mytilus hamatus, and the two Cyrenas, floridana and
carolinensis. The ponds were alive with Physa heterostropta var.
pomilia, Succinea luteola, which seems about as completely aquatic
as any of the pond snails, Planorbis tumidus, which is a form of the
protean and widely distributed trivo/vis ; and on the keys several of
the Polygyras were abundant.
Our ten days of collecting came to an end all too soon, for although
we had worked very hard and gathered in some 200 species and
perhaps 25,000 specimens, we had not had time to write a half
dozen notes, and we had only made a beginning at what we wanted
to accomplish. We packed our material and bid good-by reluct-
antly to the land of palmettoes, warm breezes and sparkling waters,
carrying with us bright, happy memories that will only grow pleas-
anter as time passes away.
ON ATLANTIC CREPIDULAS.
BY WITMER STONE, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
During the summer of 1891 while at Cape May, N. J., I made a
considerable coijlection of Crepidulas of all ages and varieties with
a view to studying the relationship of the several species found on
the New Jersey coast; and some of the possibilities suggested by an
examination of this material may prove of interest.
We have on this portion of -the Atlantic seaboard four nominal
species, of which three, C. fornicata, conveaa and glauca, grow upon
the outside or convex surfaces of the shells upon which they occur,
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while one, C. plana, grows upon the inside or concave surface. The
curvature of the surface upon which the Crepi-
dulas grow has naturally produced a similar
curvature in their own shells as it would other-
wise be impossible for them to retain their hold.
We therefore find that the three species first
| mentioned are convex in shape, while C. plana
is concave.
With this fact before us the question naturally
arises: why is not C. plana a mere form of C,
Crepidula fornicata. — fornicata produced from eggs of the latter spe-
cies which happened to be deposited on the inside of the host shell?
A series of specimens collected with their hosts, however, shows that
young fornicata is sometimes found on the inner
or concave surface of Natica and Fulgur and
retains all the characters of the species, being
easily separated from the young of plana. The
fact, however, that none but very small fornicatas
are found in such positions, seems to show that
the tendency to a conyex form makes it impos-
sible for them to retain their hold for any length
of time on a concave surface. In other words, Crepidula plana.
the tendency towards convex and concave shells has now become a
fixed specific character.
As to the original ancestry of C. plana there does not seem to
me any doubt but that either this species has descended from a shell
of the C. fornicata style or better perhaps that both species have
developed from a free snail which formed the habit of attaching
itself to other shells and whose characters have been gradually
altered to suitits habits. Some of the individuals have thus adapted
themselves to the convex and some to the concave surfaces of their
hosts, and so eventually produced two distinct species. This theory
_ is strengthened by studying the Crepidulas from other parts of the
world, for my friend Mr. Pilsbry, tells me that on nearly every coast
where a convex Crepidula is found there is also a concave species
corresponding to our C. plana.
As regards our three convex Crepidulas, C. glauca and C. convexa
are undoubtedly much more closely related to each other than either
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is to C. fornicata, as has been already noticed by
Mr. Pilsbry. In both of them the beak projects
almost directly forward and stands clear above
the margin, while in C. fornicata it is very much
Ss to one side and rests directly on the margin. This
Crepidula glauca. seems to be caused by the concentric additions to
the shell being very unequal—i. e. wider on one side than on the
other—in the latter species. The outline of the posterior margin of |
the “deck” or septum in C. fornicata is also different.
The difference between C. glauca and convexa is entirely one of
shape and is apparently due primarily to the character of the surface
on which they live, as C. glauca occurs on large shells where the
curvature is slight and C. convexa on small, very conyex shells such
as Nassa obsoleta, where considerable curvature is necessary to enable
the Crepidula to bring the entire margin of its shell in contact with
the surface of its host.
Whether this difference of shape is to be regarded as a specific or
subspecific character is a question dependent entirely upon the
extent to which this adaptation to two styles of surface has
proceeded. If shells of intermediate form occur, then C. £
convexa is merely asubspecies. Among those which I have §
thus far examined I have seen no intermediates.
The fact that we have at least two distinct convex C. convexa.
Crepidulas upon the New Jersey coast naturally suggests the pos-
sibility that we may have had at one time, two concave species ; one
developed from the same stock as C. fornicata, as already described,
and the other in a similar manner from the C. glauca stock. The a
similar environment and degenerate nature of “inside growers” |
would tend to obliterate the original specific differences, so that the |
two might easily have become merged into what we know as C.
plana. ;
Anatomical investigations might throw additional light upon
these questions, and a careful study of the genus will well repay
anyone who has the requisite material at hand.
THE SHELL BEARING MOLLUSCA OF MICHICAN.*
BY BRYANT WALKER.
U. anodontoides Lea. Cited by De Camp from Monroe County.
Also by Call.
* The first installment (land mollusks) of Mr. Walker’s catalogue of Michigan
mollusks will be found in the June NAvuritus; the second, aquatic gastropods, in
the July number.
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U. asperimus Lea. Cited by Miles, Currier and De Camp. The
latter in a recent letter says: “I do not believe that it belongs to
the State.”
U. canadensis Lea. Three Mile Lake, Oakland County, identi-
fied by the late Dr. James Lewis.
U. cariosus Say. Cited by Sager and Miles; evidently an error,
as the species does not occur so far west. The citation is probably
based on some form of U. occidens Lea.
U. ceelatus Con. Cited by Sager and Miles. In all probability
a case of mistaken identity.
U. circulus Lea. Common in southern part of the State. Speci-
mens from the River Rouge are referred to U. lens Lea by Dr. De
Camp.
U. coceineus Hild. Apparently quite common. A specimen
from the Detroit River has a pink nacre.
U. complanatus Say. Northern part of the State. For an
account of the re-discovery of this species in this State, see the
Naovtitus III, p. 16 and V, p. 93.
U. cornutus Bar. Cited by Currier and De Camp. Dr. De
Camp writes me that this species, formerly common in the Grand
River, has entirely disappeared.
U. cuneolus Lea. Cited by De Camp from Monroe County.
U. donacifornis Lea. Mouth of Otter Creek, Monroe County,
collected by Jerome Trombly. Cited also by Call.
U. elegans Lea. Southern part of the State. Monroe and Kent
counties.
U. ellipsis Lea. Detroit River and Grand Rapids.
U. ellipsiformis Con. The type specimens are stated by Conrad
to have been received from Michigan. Were it not for the explicit
statement that the beaks were simple, the figure and description
would apply to U. spatulatus Lea. It would seem possible that it
was described from specimens of that form in which the undulations
of the beaks, usually quite light, had so nearly disappeared as to
escape attention. The species has not been found by recent
collectors.
U. fabalis Lea. The River Rouge near Detroit. Cited also by
Sager and Miles.
U. gibbosus Bar. Abundant all over the State. A small variety
is found in the Detroit river, in which the nacre varies from a deep
purple to pure white. There is almost always, however, a trace of
purple along the hinge.
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U. glans Lea. The Clinton river at Pontiac, where it was first
found many years ago, is the only locality known for this species in
the State. Its occurrence there I have been successful in verifying.
U. gracilis Bar. Common. Specimens from the River Rouge,
Wayne County, are the largest I have ever seen. Those from the
Detroit River are much smaller, showing the unfavorable character
of their surroundings.
U. iris Say. Cited by Sager, Miles, Currier and DeCamp. ‘The
latter, however, in a recent letter queries whether the Michigan
specimens can be distinguished from U. novi-eboraci. Call (Cat.
Unionidee Miss. Valley) credits the species to Michigan.
U. kirtlandianus Lea. Cited by Call from the Grande River (loe.
cit.).
U. levissimus Lea. Cited by Miles, Currier and De Camp.
U. Leibii Lea. Detroit River, identified by Dr. Jas. Lewis; mouth
of Otter Creek, Monroe County, collected by Jerome Trombly.
U. latecostatus Lea. Cited by De Camp from the Grand River,
Kent County. A specimen received from him agrees in form and
in arrangement of the folds with Lea’s figure and description. It
does not, however, seem to differ from U. undulatus except in the
more highly developed character of the folds.
U. ligamentinus Lam. Southern part of the State. Cited also
by De Camp as U. erassus Say. A form with pink nacre occurs on
the Grand River (see Lewis, Am. Jour. of Con. IV, 81).
U. luteolus Lam. Very abundant everywhere and exceedingly
variable in size, color and shape. De Camp cites U. siliquoides
Bar., from Grand River as distinct. The nacre is occasionally
more or less tinged with pink toward posterior portion.
U. multiradiatus Lea. Appears to occur generally through the
southern part of the State. It is very abundant in the Huron
River at Ann Arbor, Mich. A dwarfed form occurs in the Detroit
River. The female has the edge of the mantle prolonged in long
feelers, similar to those figured by Lea (Observations II, pl. xv, fig.
49) in the female of U. radiatus Lam.
U. nasutus Say. Occurs all over the State. Specimens from the
Detroit River are small and quite thin.
U. negatus Lea. Sheawassee River, Genesee Co., where it was
discovered by Dr. M. L. Leach, who writes that the only specimen
he found was sent to the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences
and was there identified as this species. It is now in the museum
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at Bay View, Petoskey, Michigan. Among a large lot of U. rubv-
ginosus sent to me by Dr. Leach from the same locality was
another specimen, which in the suleate or rather heavily imbricated
character of the surface resembles Lea’s description of this species.
It is, however, more inflated, and although somewhat eroded, lacks
the peculiar beaks described by Lea. If not distinct, it certainly
is a very peculiar form of U. rubiginosus.
U. novi-eboraci Lea. Abundant everywhere. A form without
rays from this state was described as U. opalinus by Anthony, but
is not considered as distinct by Lea in his last synopsis. Dr.
De Camp sends me the following note on Anthony’s species.
“ McNeil found the only specimen of this and sent it to Anthony. It
was from Ottawa county, and McNeil says he thought it was a
malformed U. gibbosus Bar. I have hunted the same stream and
never found one.”
U. occidens Lea. Generally distributed through the southern
part of the State.
U. parvus Bar. River Rouge, Wayne county.
U. penitus Con. Cited by Sager and Miles, probably a mistake
as the species is a southern one.
U. perplexus Lea. Cited by Sager and Miles.
U. phaseolus Hild. Cited in most of the catalogues. Sheboygan
County is the most northern locality known to me. Specimens from
the Detroit river are smaller than usual, very strongly arcuate and
darker colored without spots.
U. plicatus Les. Western part of the State, extending as far
north as Muskegon. I have not found this form in the eastern part
of the State. Michigan specimen seem to be smaller than those from
more southern localities.
U. pressus Lea. Common all over the State.
U. pustulatus Lea. River Rouge, Wayne county.
U. pustulosus Lea. Cited by Sager, Miles and Call.
U. radiatus Lam. Cited by De Camp from Grayling, Crawford
County, and as U. distans Anth. by Currier and De Camp. Were
it not for the occurrence of U. complantus Sol., in the northern part
of the State, (a species which is usually considered as confined to the
Atlantic drainage), I should question whether there was not some
mistake in the above citations. Gould in Agassiz “ Lake Superior”
however, cites this species from the north shore of that lake, and it
is quite possible that it has extended from Canada into our northern
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borders. I notice that in the Nautiius for November, 1891, p. 78,
Mr. G. W. Dean says that Anthony’s distans is the female form of
U. luteolus Lam. Call (loc. cit.) also refers U. distans to luteolus.
Lea, however, refers it to radiatus.
U. rangianus Lea. Fighting Island, Detroit river, and the River
Raisin, Monroe Counties, are the only localities where this species
has yet been found to my knowledge. Credited to Michigan by
Call (loe. cit.)
U. rectus Lam. Not uncommon in the southern part of the State.
A form from the Detroit river was described as U. Sageri by Conrad
and another variety from the Huron river, Livingstone county, as
U. leprosus by Miles. Specimens from the River Rouge, Wayne
county, are fully as wide as any from the Ohio river, but longer,
more compressed and not so heavy, the nacre being either white or
purple. Detroit river specimens are only about half as large as
Rouge river examples, with the nacre tinged with purple toward the
hinge, or occasionally of a beautiful salmon color.
U. rubiginosus Lea. Common in the southern part of the State.
U. Schooleraftii. Lea. Not a common species, but cited in nearly
all the lists.
U. spatulatus Lea. Very abundant in many localities.
U. subovatus Lea. Cited by Miles, Currier and De Camp. Spee-
imens sent to correspondents as U. ventricosus Bar., have been
referred by them to this form.
U. subrotundus Lea. Cited by Sager and Miles only. As it has
not been found by later collectors it is to be considered a doubtful
inhabitant of the state.
U. sulcatus Lea. Detroit river. Specimens from that locality
were described as U. perobliquus by Conrad.
U. Tappanianus Lea. “ Have this from Monroe County, Mich-
igan, that agrees well with Lea’s figure and description ; but think
it the same as siliquoides, only a variety of luteolus. The beaks are
eroded on the specimens I have, so that I cannot decide well on the
undulations” —De Camp. I know nothing of the occurrence of this
species in the State, beyond the above note from Dr. De Camp,
which seems to leave the identification somewhat in doubt.
U. tenuissimus Lea. Cited by De Camp from the Grande river,
Also by Miles and Currier.
U. trigonus Lea. Cited by De Camp from Black Lake, Ottawa
county ; also by Miles and Currier.
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U. triangularis Lea. Southern part of the State.
U. undulatus Bar. An abundant species in suitable localities in
the southern part of the State. Dr. De Camp sends me a specimen
which I think should be referred to this species, labelled U. atro-
costatus with the following note: ‘This I found in Black Lake,
Ottawa county, I think plicatus and latecostatus distinct ; but would
hardly say this of atrocostatus were it not for finding it only in the
still water of the lake, while the other almost universally inhabits
rivers with current.”
U. ventricosus Bar. Very abundant all over the State and
extremely variable. In many localities it attains a large size.
Detroit river specimens are small and with comparatively thin
shells.
U. verrucosus Bar. Southern part of the State.
( Zo be concluded.)
GOULD’S TYPES OF NASSA AND COLUMBELLA.
BY W. B. MARSHALL.
Tryon has expressed the belief that the types of several species
of Nassa and Columbella described by Dr. A. A. Gould were
destroyed in the Chicago fire. .
Among others he mentions the following :—Nassa beata, Loo
Choo Is.; Nassa optata, Sydney, N. S. W.; Nassa spurca, St.
Simon’s Bay; Columbella minuscula, Ousima; Columbella zonata,
Kagosima.
Referring to the types of Nassa, Tryon said “ Most of the above
are from the collections of the North Pacific (U. 8.) Exploring
Expedition; they have not been figured and the type specimens
were destroyed in the great Chicago fire. Some of them might be
identified with other described species, but it is better not to do so.
I think, under the circumstances.’
In a note under his description of Colwmbella (Seminella) minus-
cula, Tryon said “ Unknown to me. ‘The types of this, the preced-
ing and following species described by Gould are believed to have
been destroyed at Chicago by fire.”
The types of the five species mentioned above were not destroyed.
They are now in the collection of the New York State Museum at
Albany and are represented as follows :—
1 Manual of Conchology, (I) iv, p. 63.
2 Ibid. v, p. 171.
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Nassa beata by six specimens.
Nassa optata by one specimen.
Nassa spurca by four specimens.
Columbella minuscula by three specimens.
Columbella zonata by two specimens.
GENERAL NOTES.
Errata. For “ Helix sargenti” in the May Navuriuus, p. 8,
read “ H. SanGenTIaAna J. & P.’; the former name having been
used for a species from the Bahamas, belonging to the section
Plagioptycha.
Those familiar with the life work of the late Dr. Joseph Leidy
will be interested to know that the two microscopes which he used
for years and from which he obtained such valuable results have
been placed in the hands of Messrs. Williams, Brown and Earle,
Philadelphia, to sell, by Mrs. Joseph Leidy, and they will be pleased
to show them to anyone desiring to see them. They were brought
in 1875 and were in almost constant use down to the date of his
death, and they show how careful a student he was, in that they
are in perfect order and very little soiled or scratched.
The following extract from a letter to the Editor from Dr. W. H.
Dall, writtef upon his recent return from the West Coast, will be of
interest to our readers. * * ** “My work this time was chiefly
stratigraphical. I was able to determine the position of the Wallala
beds as continuously conformable with, and below the upper
Cretaceous Chico beds. Also to discover that earlier collectors have
been mixing the genuine Pliocene and Postpliocene faunas in their
collections, the two being often conformable, closely adjacent, and
in similar mostly unconsolidated beds.
In mollusks I found that the Periploma diseus and Trophon tri-
angulatus haye been found near San Pedro on several occasions
lately. At Monterey I got several specimens of Pedicularia cali-
fornica Newcomb, which lives on a red Gorgonian. Monterey as a
collecting ground is already greatly injured, and will probably be
nearly ruined before long, on account of the Hotel del Monte, the
new town of Pacific Grove and the increased population of old
Monterey, all the sewage of which is turned into the bay in front of
the town. Beaches which formerly would afford several hundred
species are now nearly bare, or offensive with stinking black mud.
Old collectors will learn this with regret. The San Pedro collectors
are very active and enthusiastic and doing good work.”
y#
ae NEUTILUS.
VOL. VI. SEPTEMBER, 1892. No. 5
SHELL COLLECTING AT EASTPORT.
EDWARD W. ROPER.
The August number of the NAurrius was awaiting me on my
return from a collecting trip to Eastport, Maine, with Messrs. B. H.
Van Vleck and R. T. Jackson, of Boston, and I could fully appreci-
ate Mr. Simpson’s excellent article on dredging at. Tampa Bay.
Eastport is likewise “classic ground” to naturalists, and seldom a
year passes that boatman Jerry Sullivan does not have an opportu-
nity to take some ardent collector in his trim sloop. ‘“ Uncle”
Jerry has been a resident of Eastport over forty years, and has
coiled the dredge rope for Agassiz, Verrill, Fewkes and other well-
known scientists. He knows the fluctuations of the strong tides, the
depth of water, and what is of most consequence, the character of the
bottom, which enables him to keep away from rocks which might
cause the loss of the dredge.
While not equal to subtropical Florida as a collecting ground,
Eastport, for a northern locality, is rich in species and individuals.
Our dredgings were in water from fourteen to eighteen fathoms
deep, and Mr. Simpson’s statement that it was “hard, heavy, wet
work,” was certainly not overdrawn. Sometimes the dredge came
up full of stones. and gravel, with which were huge starfishes ten
inches across the rays, curious leathery Boltenias, large red shrimps,
sponges, such beautiful shells as Trochus occidentalis, Margarita
undulata and Admete viridula, and perhaps the long-named
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brachiopod, Terebratulina septentrionalis. The best brachiopod
ground, however, has been ruined, by the dumping upon it of blue
clay dredged from Luber Narrows.
The best hauls were made on a moderately soft bottom of mingled
mud and sand, which was literally filled with dead and living shells
of Cyclocardia borealis, Astarte undata, Astarte crebricostata, Cardium
pinnulatum, Sipho pygmeus, Dentalium striolatum and many others.
Here also were obtained numerous brittle stars, Ophiopholis, and the
Astrophyton Agassizii, which came up clinging to the outside of the
net, nearly as often as inside. When the dredge landed in soft mud
it brought up such shells as Leda tenuisulcata, Nucula tenuis, Cre-
nella glandula, Yoldia sapotilla and Cryptodon Gouldii.
Shore collecting at Eastport is sure to prove successful. Ordinary
tides rise and fall eighteen feet, and at low tide a large area of shore
is uncovered. Purpura lapillus, Aemea testudinalis and the various
Littorinas, common all along the New England shore, are here of
much larger size than in Massachusetts. Buccinum undatum is
everywhere seen at low water mark, and bunches of its yellow egg
cases are fastened to the rocks in abundance. Underneath stones
are myraids of crawling things not well known to a conchologist,
but nevertheless interesting. In the larger rock pools every stone
hides specimens of Chiton marmoreus and Chiton albus, Saxicava
rugosa and Margarita helicina are common and the bottom may
fairly bristle with the spiny sea urchins.
The enthusiastic collector will understand my pleasure when a
eritical examination of my gathered treasures revealed. about
seventy-five species of shells, fifteen of which had not previously been
represented in my cabinet. My companions, more interested in
other invertebrete forms, were also quite successful. Add to this,
the fact that we were in the coolest place in the country, wearing
light overcoats many evenings while everybody at home was swelter-
ing in torrid heat, and we may look back to our Eastport trip as
favored by fortune and replete with pleasure.
AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY—A NEW FOSSIL CYPREA,
JOHN H. CAMPBELL.
Mr. Homer Squyer of Mingusville, Montana, in collecting during
the present summer, additional specimens of cretaceous mollusea in
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the Fox Hills Group (upper Missouri) made an exceedingly impor-
tant “find.” Among the species found by him, was a Cyprea
absolutely new to science, and which may turn out to be the oldest
Cyprea known to be in existence. The two fossil cyprzeas from
California (Bayerquei and Matthewsonii) and the Cypraa (Mortoni)
from the New Jersey marl beds are the only species of the family
published as belonging to the cretaceous period; and Prof. Whit-
field of New York some time since found a cast of another species
(to be described by him) in New Jersey, which he considers to be
cretaceous. Thestratum (Tejon group) in which the two California
species were found, is now considered to be tertiary, and the- two
New Jersey species may possibly turn out to be tertiary also, and in
that case, the species just found by Mr. Squyer would be the earliest
species of the genus Cyprea known. Next month we will describe
and figure it more particularly, as we have this month only space
enough to note the fact of its discovery, and assign it provisionally
a name which we suggest should be Cyprea Squyerit.
The type shell of the species (only perfect one found) has been
forwarded by Mr. Squyer to the Collection of the American Associa-
tion of Conchologists.
APPEARANCE OF AN ASIATIC ANODONTA IN THE CHINESE
MARKETS OF SAN FRANCISCO.
BY WILLARD M. WOOD.
Several weeks ago, I was invited to take lunch at a Chinese
restaurant, with Mr. Sue Locke, an interpreter.
While on the way, this gentleman, who knew I was greatly
interested in the study of conchology, informed me that before going
to the restaurant, he would show me a new shell which had just been
brought from China. Upon this information, I questioned him, and
found that it was a fresh-water species.
After passing through a number of narrow streets, we reached a
very small Chinese merchandise store. The first object that
attracted my attention, was a medium sized fresh-water aquarium
containing a number of gold and silver fish.
_ Upon close examination, I found the bottom to be thickly lined
with the species Paludina Japonica Mart., and two varieties of
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same; and also a species of Anodonta, of which I have not, as yet,
learned the name.
By my friend acting as interpreter, I discovered that but very
few have been sent here. Upon the last steamer from China, several
dozen were brought by the sailors, who disposed of them to Chinese
merchandise dealers, in Chinatown.
I purchased a few at the price of fifteen cents apiece, and started
for the restaurant; but we stopped on the way, once again, as my
friend desired to take me to the home of one of his acquaintances to
show me another species of Anodonta. I was very much astonished
upon observing this specimen.
The shells I had been looking at were all less than three inches
in length, while this specimen of another species, was almost
six inches. I tried to secure it but failed. The Chinaman would
not part with it. He said, “Me keepee. Him livee heep long
time. No die.”
As these shells may be bought exceedingly cheap in China, as J
was informed, I shall try and have a number sent me.
NOTE ON CYTHEREA CONVEXA SAY.
BY Wi. Hoag:
Quite a number of conchologists have referred to Conrad’s state-
ment (Medial Tert. Form.) that the well known name of our east
coast species is preoccupied by Brongniart, but have hesitated to
accept the name Sayana proposed by Conrad since no reference to
chapter and verse was made by him to substantiate his observation.
Having long sought the reference and at last found it, it seems well
to put it on record. In Cuvier’s “ Ossemens fossiles” volume II,
pt. 2 contains an essay by Cuvier and Alex. Brongniart entitled
“ Bssai sur la géographie minéralogique des environs de Paris.” It
contains 278 pages, 4to, with maps and copper plates and was
published in 1811. A number of species are figured from the Paris
basin, among them Cytherea convexa, pl. 8, fig. 7. This shell long
remained doubtful but has been practically identified by Renevier
and Deshayes with the Cyrena semistrata of Deshayes, described in
1831. Say’s C. convexa was described early in 1824 (Journ. Acad..
Nat. Sci. iv, 140). Another Cytherea convera was described by
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Hoffmann (Karsten, Arch. 1831, t. 8, p. 385) subsequent to that of
Say. Owing to the slight tinge of doubt which still remained, Des-
hayes’ specific has been universally retained for the Cyrena except
by Herbert and Renevier (Foss. nummul. suppl. p. 59, 1854). All
things considered it would seem best to adopt Conrad’s name Sayana
for the well known shell to which it has been applied and which
extends its range from Prince Edward’s Island to Indianola, Texas,
and has existed unchanged since the Miocene.
HYALINIA LEVIUSCULA N. SP.
BY DR. V. STERKI, NEW PHILADELPHIA, OHIO.
A few years ago while looking over a parcel of fine drift from the
Guadalupe river, gathered at New Braunfels, Texas, I found a small
Hyalinia which was evidently new; but upon the few specimens at
hand I did not like to publish it. Now, a few weeks ago, Mr. J. A.
Singley had the kindness of forwarding me several thousand small
shells picked out of a lot of the same drift materials." Among them
there are several dozen specimens of this form, besides nearly as many
Hy. singleyana Pils., hundreds of Hy. minuscula Binn. and a few
Hy. milium Mse.
Our species is of the size and general appearance of Hy. minu-
scula, for which it doubtless has been taken, but differs from that
species in being more depressed. The spire is entirely flat or very
little elevated. The whorls are markedly wider, from the nucleus,
in specimens of the same size }—1 less in number, very gradually
increasing, and flatter above and below. The surface appears
smooth and polished, and only with a strong magnifier radiating
lines are seen, much like those of Hy. radiatula Gray, but also pro-
portionately much finer. The umbilicus is rather wider in the
adult, and the curvature of the whorl] to the umbilicus is quite
abrupt, appearing almost angular. The shell is colorless, glossy
while fresh, and when weathered, appears more milky white, while
minuscula then is more chalky.
This form is certainly not a variety of Hy. minuscula which may
be regarded as a “ species” at the arbitration of a systematist, but
1 They are so interesting that a list of them with some notes will be worth
publishing in the ‘‘ NAUTILUS.”
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entirely distinct. Although the differences from that species seem
not striking at first sight, they are well marked after careful com-
parison, as anyone will be convinced by close examination of the
two forms. Hy. texana resembles more Hy. singleyana Pils., which
however is sufficiently different by its much smaller size. The two
evidently represent a natural group, and doubtless will show
peculiar anatomical characters. It is to be hoped that Mr. Singley
or another Texan conchologist will succeed in securing fresh spec-
imens for examination.
Since writing the above, specimens have been received from
Hidalgo, Texas, and from Henry County, Indiana. It will probably
be found at intermediate localities also.
OBSERVATIONS ON THE HELICES OF NEW ZEALAND.
BY HENRY A. PILSBRY.
The first species of New Zealand land snails made known to
science were described many years ago, by Dr. J. E. Gray of the
British Museum. A number of forms were described later by
Pfeiffer; and most of these were illustrated by Reeve in his big
volume on Helix in the Conchologia Iconica. Reeve took the
liberty of renaming the species to which Pfeiffer had given the
names of letters of the Greek alphabet. These changes have been
adopted by some authors, but as they were wholly unwarranted the
propriety of returning to the original Pfeifferian designation is now
conceded by most students. The most elaborate contributions
to our knowledge of the New Zealand land snails have been made
by Prof. Hutton, whose work upon this fauna will only become the
more highly valued aud appreciated as the subject is more widely
known and studied.
Mr. H. Suter has lately made very valuable and substantial addi-
tions to New Zealand Malacology. I am indebted to him for numer-
ous specimens and drawings and much useful information still
unpublished.
The most prominent element in the New Zealand Helix fauna is
the ancient and widely distributed genus ParuLA; this is represented
by numerous small species belonging to the section Charopa of Albers.
The world-wide distribution of this type of snail causes us to regard it
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as a heritage from so early a fauna that the place of its origin and the
paths of its distribution will probably never be known with certainty.
There is a peculiar modification of Patula found only in New Zea-
land, to which Hutton has given the sectional name Thera. New
Zealand has also received Paluloid snails from the Endodonta stock,
this group being a special development of Patula confined to
Polynesia. The New Zealand members of the subgenus Endodonta
belong to two groups of species, one of which contains P. cryptobi-
dens, P. timandra, P. jessica ; to the other group Mr. Suter has
given the name Maoriana; these are minute discoidal forms hay-
ing numerous folds within the aperture. This group can only be con-
sidered a mere section of Endodonta, the species being closely
allied to minute forms of Kndodonta found in New Caledonia, ete.
Another Helicoid genus represented by numerous species is
Laoma of Gray. This group is characterized by the small, thin, coni-
eal or depressed shell with thin simple lip. The jaw is composed of
numerous separate squarish plates, being very much like
that of our northern genus Punctum. The teeth also are peculiar ;
these composite jawed Helices are probably to be regarded as an
excessively ancient and primitive type but their affinities are with
Patula rather than with the so-called Goniognatha. No species
known to belong to Laoma has been discovered outside of New Zea-
land. Hutton’s genus Phrixgnathus must of course be united to
Laoma but the name may be retained as a section to contain species
without teeth in the aperture.
A third genus of New Zealand Helices is also, as far as we now
know, confined to those Islands; this is the genus GERONTIA of
Hutton. I use that name to comprise snails haying the animal and
dentition of Patula except that the tail is provided with a mucus
gland. The jaw is thin and delicate and varies from striated to
ribbed. The shell is thin, somewhat translucent and its surface is
striated or ribbed, sometimes hairy or occasionally smooth. The
spire varies from low conical to nearly flat; and it is a notable fact
which has hitherto escaped observation that whatever be the sculpt-
ure of the mature shell, the apical or embryonic whorls are spirally
striated. This is an unusual feature and recalls to my mind that
strange Tasmanian Helix, Anoglypta launcestonensis. The snails
1The name Zhera is already in use for a recognized genus of Geometric
moths, dating from 1831. As asubstitute, Aeschrodomus may be used. This sec-
tion of Patz/a includes 1. alpha Pfr. and #. beta Pfr., the first being the type.
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of the genus thus defined have been distributed by New Zealand
authors into the following groups which they regard as genera:
Gerontia Hutt., Therasia Hutt., Thalassia Alb., Pysra Hutt.,
Pyrrha Hutt., Phenacohelix Suter, Patulopsis Suter, Amphidoxa
Alb. and Calymna Hutt. These sections or subgenera are founded
upon various modifications of the shell or jaw, but they have not
sufficient distinctness to rank as genera, unless we understand that
term in a much more restricted sense than it has been used by the
majority of conchologists or zoologists generally. These minor
divisions are however natural groups and they are useful if we do
not overestimate their importance. The sections or subgenera of
this genus may stand as follows, the sequence of names being
chronological.
Gerontia Hutt., 1885 (Type G. pantherina Hutton.)
Therasia Hutt., 1884, (Type C. celinde Gray.)
Calymna Hutt., 1884, + Amphidoxa Hutt. not Alb. (Type C.
costulata Hutt.
Pyrrha Hutt., 1884, (Type P. cressida Hutt.)
Phenacohelix Suter, 1891 (Type H. pilula Rve.)
Allodiscus Pils., 1892 (Type H. dimorpha Pfr.).—Pysra Hutt.,
1884, non Stal, 1876.
Suteria Pils. 1892 (Type H. ide Gray).—Patulopsis Suter, 1891,
non Strebel, 1879.
Thalassohelix Pils. 1892 (Type+H. zelandie Gray).= Thalassia
Hutton (? and of Albers,) not Thalassia Chevrolat, 1854. (Coleopt.)
It will be noticed that Amphidoxa has been dropped or rather
united to Calymna. The true Amphidoxa has not been found else-
where than upon the island Juan Fernandez and the neighboring
South American Coast. I have compared specimens with the New
Zealand shells and find that there is not the slightest ground for
supposing them congeneric. I am disposed to believe that the New
Zealand Thalassias do not belong to the same genus as the Austra-
lian subrugata Pfr., the type of Thalassia Albers. The other
departures from the usage of New Zealand authors are sufficiently
explained in the above list.
1 The genus Phacussa of Hutton is included by Suter. It may prove that the
Zonitoid aspect of the dentition of that form isa secondary modification and not
truly Zonitoid. In this case the group will be included among the present forms ;
otherwise it must remain in Zonitidas, where Hutton placed it.
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I will not comment here upon the genus Carthea of Hutton; its
affinities may be with the oriental Bulimuli, but certainly not with
the South American group Rhabdotus where it has lately been
placed.
In conclusion we find that the faunal relations of New Zealand
as far as they are shown by the groups above considered are as fol-
lows: (1) with the primitive fauna of Australia still surviving in
South Australia and Tasmania it is strongly allied by the predom-
inance of Patula as well as of Paryphanta, Rhytida, etc., and also
by the absence of the later elements of the Australian fauna, EHadra,
Chloritis, Papuina, Helicina, ete., which are, as Mr. Hedley has
shown, a recent influx from the Papua-Molucean region. (2) from
Polynesia it has received the Endodonta-like groups as well as prob-
ably Tornatellina and Pupa. The presence of Placostylus shows a
third relationship to New Caledonia, Lord Howe Island and
more anciently with the Solomon group, but this Bulimoid genus
also extends eastward to the Vitian group.
With all deference to the opinions of such eminent zoologists as
Prof. Hutton and Dr. von Ihering, Iam unable to see that the
New Zealand fauna is in any way allied to that of South America,
except that in both the Old and the New worlds certain archaic
forms haye been preserved in these most southern extensions of
land.
[CoMMUNICATED. ]
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CONCHOLOGISTS.
The Association has recently issued a new and revised list of
members, under date of July 18, 1892. It contains the names of
175 persons, located in various points of the United States, Canada
and Cuba and it is expected before a great while that the concholo-
gists of Mexico, Central and South America, will also be enrolled.
The growth of the Association has been very gratifying and now
that the officers have resumed active work, it will no doubt forge
ahead very rapidly. The rule requiring the choice of some special
subject or branch of conchology, has been a valuable one and a large
body of trained specialists will shortly be the result.
It is suggested that it would be an interesting event, if the mem-
bers would hold a convention at Chicago next summer during the
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World’s Fair. Doubtless most of the members will visit the Fair
and if they could time their visits so as to meet their fellow members
and hold a convention, it would enable them to become personally
acquainted with each other, besides learning much from the eminent
scientists among their number, through the medium of papers
prepared for the occasion. The president would be glad to hear
from the members upon the subject and if the idea is favorably
received, a committee could be appointed to arrange a program.
Send in your suggestions, ladies and gentlemen!
Another suggestion is made that a.Committee be appointed to
classify and revise the nomenclature of the American Unionide.
Every one, who has paid any attention to this great family, is
annoyed at the great number of synonyms that encumber the litera-
ture of the subject and as we have several members who are students
of the Unionidee, it would be a good idea to enlist their service in
the work. What say you, Messrs. Simpson, Hargrave, Fry, Mead,
Lebman, Monell, Nell, Strode, Trombley, the two Wrights, Whitte-
more, Wheeler, Shepherd, Marshall, Marsh, Gorby, Brady, Vaughan
and Witter?
A word about naming shells. Some members like Prof. Dall,
Ford, Simpson and Pilsbry are overworked, while others have little
opportunity to help their fellow members. The trouble is that the
gentlemen named and others like them are all amiable and would
like to oblige everybody, but they have an enormous amount of
work on hand, and it taxes their time too much to name large lots
of miscellaneous shells, which could be distributed around among
the members. The writer knows that they would protest against
this, if they knew what we are saying about them, for they are too
good natured to complain, but nevertheless we would make a sugges-
tion to members, who desire their shells to be named properly.
When you get a miscellaneous lot of shells, divide them first into
univalves and bivalves. Then, if you can, separate them into land,
fresh-water and marine, or as near as you can come to such a division.
Then take your list of members and turn to your index of subjects
and find out who are studying the different branches. Then write
and ask such specialists, if you will send your shells to them for
naming and we venture to say, that they will gladly respond as that
is one of the objects of the Association. Let us take a few instances.
1. If you are a beginner and do not know the genera, pick out one
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of each genus as near as observation will permit and drop a postal
card to the president and he will tell you to whom to send them.
2. If you are further advanced and want thespecies in any special
families named, say Strombide send to Mr. Ritchie, of Boston; say
Nasside to Mr. Browne, of Framingham, Mass; say Pupide to Dr,
Sterki, of Ohio; say Olivide to Mr. Ford, of Philadelphia; and so
on to the end of your list and you can have your whole collection
named in a few weeks. The only charge to you will be postage or
expressage both ways.
%. If you have any advanced questions to solve, or names to dis-
cuss, or other knotty points, then write to men like Prof. Dall,
Simpson, Stearns, Pilsbry, Binney, Cooper, Whitfield, Claypole,
Schuchert, Sterki, Johnson, Lee, Keep, Yates, Marsh and many
others. The Association has enough of trained specialists to answer
almost any questions relating to conchology.
The collection of American shells being made by the members of
the Association is already a wonderful success. The Academy of
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia has given us every facility for
caring for the specimens and there are already eight large museum
cases almost filled by specimens sent by the members. There are
about 1000 species already mounted and labelled and the specimens
in most instances are superb, the senders generally taking a pride
in sending only the finest shells that can-be obained. The placing
of fossil species along with the recent ones adds especial value to
the collection and makes it, so far as we know, the only zoological
collection of the mollusca in America. It is already one of the
finest special exhibits of natural history in America, and with the
continued zeal and enthusiasm of the members, it is certain to be
in a few years, the finest special exhibit in the world.
In sending shells for the collection, members should bear in mind.
1st. That none but members of the Association can contribute spec-
imens. 2nd. None but fine specimens from definite localities will
be accepted. 8rd. The exhibit is kept separate and apart from the
general collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences. 4th,
Every species is labelled with the name and locality of the shells,
the name and exact address of the member sending it and the date
when it is placed in the collection. 5th. Seud all specimens
intended for the collection addressed to the president of the Associ-
ation, care of Academy of Natural Sciences, 19th and Race Sts.,
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Philadelphia. He and his brother officers and some of the mem-
bers assemble there once a week, open the packages, verify the
names, label and mount the specimens and place them in the cases.
In the next issue of the Nauritus we will begin again the work
of acknowledging the receipt of all shells sent during the month
by the members.
EXCHANGES.
(Exchange notices of moderate length will be inserted free for subscribers.)
WANTED to exchange British and Tropical Mollusca for U. S.
Mollusea of all kinds. Please send lists first and receive mine.
None of the commonest species required —B. Tomlin, 59 Liverpool
Road, Chester, Eng. .
Wanren, Helices, in exchange for land and fresh-water shells.—
Edw. G. Vanatta, 1608 N. 12th St., Philadelphia, Pa.
W anTep.—Marine univalves, especially of Mexico, Central and
South America. Offered—many specimens, Marine, Land, and
Fresh-Water, both U. 8. and Foreign —F. C. Browne, Framingham,
Mass.
CoLiEectors who desire to dispose of North American Land,
Fresh-water and Marine shells for those of California, will do well
by sending their exchange lists to Willard M. Wood, 2817 Clay
Street, San Francisco, Cal.
Pactric Coast, marine, land and fresh water shells, for land and
fresh water shells of the West Indies and South America, G. W.
Lichtenthaler, Bloomington, Ills.
Fosstus from the Silurian, Devonian Subcarboniferous and Car-
boniferous, to exchange for other fossils, especially of the Creta-
ceous and Tertiary; send lists and receive mine. C. S. Hodgson,
‘Albion, Ill.
CRETACEOUS AND EOCENE FOSSILS, minerals, agates, marine and
fresh water shells, to exchange tor rare marine shells, cloth-bound
? t=) ?
books or agates. Homer Squyer, Mingusville, Mont.
HERKIMER County LAND AND FRESH-WATER SHELLS to
exchange for desirable species from other localities. Send lists and
receive mine. Albert Baily, Chepachet, N. Y.
eae NEoricus.
VoL. VI. OCTOBER, 1892. No. 6
ON THE AMNICOLOID GENUS LYOGYRUS, WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF
A NEW SPECIES.
BY HENRY A. PILSBRY.
Some years ago the writer had occasion to examine the dentition
of the type species of Gill’s genus Lyogyrus', and to show that it is
not allied to Valvata as supposed by all earlier systematists, as well
as by Tryon’ and by Fiscuer’ ; but that it is undoubtedly a mem-
ber of the family Amnicolide (Hydrobiide of Fischer), and in
fact, is not far removed from the genus Amnicola. The same
results have been independently obtained and fully confirmed by
Mr. Charles E. Beecher* whose preparations and unpublished draw-
ings of the radula of Lyogyrus pupoides show conclusively the true
systematic position of this interesting genus.
Iyogyrus may be shortly described as a fresh-water Rissoid hay-
ing the shell of Amnicola’, the operculum of Valvata and the denti-
1 Pilsbry, in the Conchologists Exchange, vol. ii, p. 113, 1888.
2 Structural and Systematic Conchology, vol. ii, p. 274, 1883.
3 Manuel de Conchyliologie, p. 735, 1885.
* Beecher in MS. et “itt.
5 In some localities Z. pupoides has the entire latter half of the body whorl
free from the preceding whorl; but in the great majority of specimens this char-
acter is less marked than in the form originally described by Gould; and very
often the peristome is actually in contact with the body-whorl for a short dis-
tance, asin anormal Valvata. The original V. pupoidea is an exaggerated and
extreme phase of a species varying much in degree of compactness. It is there-
fore obvious that the character of having the last whorl free from the preceding
whorl is not a generic or even a constant specific characteristic,
62 THE NAUTILUS.
tion of Bythinella. To the one species hitherto known we now
add the following :
Lyogyrus dalli Pilsbry & Beecher, n. sp.
The shell is umbilicated, smooth, nearly lusterless, of a somewhat
transparent horn color. In contour it is globose-turbinate with a
short spire and decidedly obtuse apex. The 32 whorls are quite
convex, separated by deep sutures ; last whorl ventricose, being well
rounded in every part. The aperture is somewhat oblique, almost
circular, its posterior angle being indistinct and obtuse. The peri-
stome is continuous and thin, not sinuous, not thickened nor
expanded ; but the inner lip is a trifle dilated, and adheres to the
body-whorl above the umbilicus; the latter being a deep and rather
widely open perforation.
Alt. 2°6, diam. 2°5 mm.
The operculum is usually retracted about the quarter of a volu-
tion within the mouth ; it is a shining, yellowish, thin and corneous
circular disk composed of many close whorls, the nucleus being
subcentral.
The dentition is practically the same as in L. pupoides. The
basal denticles are situated higher on the tooth than in Amnicola,
and only one on each side is well developed, the outer denticle
being more or less obsolete, but rather stronger in L. dalfi than in
pupoides.
Locality, Wekiva River, Fla. (C. E. Beecher).
This species was obtained in considerable numbers by Mr.
Beecher in Wekiva River. It may be recognized by its globose
contour, resembling the typical Amnicola porata of Say on a small
scale; but it is more globose and has a wider umbilicus than any
of our other Amnicolas. Of course a glance at the operculum
(which is retained in the shell, as usual in this family), tells one at
once that the shell is no Amnicola ; for itis multispiral like the oper-
culum of Lyogyrus pupoides Gld., the only species of the genus
hitherto known. It will be remembered that Ancey described a
Lyogyrus lehnerti some years ago, but this turns out to be a mon-
strosity of Amnicola limosa Say.
This species is named in honor of Dr. W. H. Dall, of the Smith-
sonian Institution, who has contributed so largely to our knowledge
of the mollusks of Florida.
Illustrations of shell, operculum and dentition will be given in
the Monograph of American Amnicolidz, now in preparation by
Mr. Beecher and the writer.
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A FEW ADDITIONAL NOTES ON CREPIDULA.
BY REV. HENRY W. WINKLEY, SACO, ME.
In the August Nautrtus Mr. Witmer Stone makes the statement
concerning C. fornicata and C. plana that “the tendency towards
convex and concave shells has now become a fixed specific char-
acter” and the general description of C. plana grants to that spe-
cies an existence on the interiors of other shells and a consequent
concave form.
There is a colony of warm water shells in the waters of North-
umberland Strait, between Prince Edward’s Island and the province
of New Brunswick, and this colony is of interest not only for the
species which are so cut off from their fellows in the south, but also
for a series of interesting Crepidulas. The writer has gathered
many specimens of both C. plana and C. fornicata, but in no case
was C. plana on the interior, and I recall no concave specimen of
either. The specimens of C. plana were in some cases far more
convex than the average C. fornicata. To one who has examined
this colony the distinction between these species can have no help
from convex or concave characters, yet both species are distinct, and
while I have no doubt that they are from a common ancestor, it is
impossible to count the dwelling place as responsible for the differ-
ence. May I also add that there is in my collection from the
region named a specimen of C. fornicata which is white, yet bears
undoubted characteristics of C. fornicata.
THE SHELL BEARING MOLLUSCA OF MICHIGAN.
BY BRYANT WALKER, DETROIT, MICH.
Margaritana complanata Bar. Quite abundant and of large size
in the Rouge river. Cited also by Currier and De Camp and no
doubt occurs generally over the southern part of the State.
M. deltoidea Lea. Common all over the State. The small size,
peculiar as usual to Detroit river specimens, is also characteristic of
specimens from Put-in-Bay, Lake Erie.
M. Hildrethiana Lea. River Rouge, Wayne county. Cited also
by De Camp from Monroe county, and without locality by Sager
and Miles.
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M. marginata Say. Common in the southern part of the State.
The range toward the north of many of the species commonly met
with in the lower portion of the State is quite unknown, and to be
determined with any degree of accuracy will require a large amount
of extensive and careful field work.
M. rugosa Bar. Common all over the lower peninsula, and some-
times attains considerable size. Detroit river specimens are smaller
and thicker than those from the warmer waters of the interior of the
State.
M. undulata Say. Cited by Sager, and, no doubt, erroneously.
Anodonta Benedictii Lea. Generally distributed. In the south-
ern part of the State it often attains considerable size. Detroit river
specimens as usual are smaller than the average.
A. corpulenta Coop. Cited by De Camp from Berlin, Ottawa
county. Immature specimens from the Canal, at Grand Rapids,
are referred to this species by Mr. W. B. Marshall.
A. decora Lea. A. inornata Anth., described from specimens
from Slawson’s Lake, Michigan, is referred to this species by Dr.
Lea. Cited as A. inornata by Currier and De Camp; otherwise
does not appear to have been found in the State.
A. edentula Say. Common everywhere and exceedingly variable
in size, shape and color.
A. edentula rhombica Anth. This form, described by Anthony,
is entitled to varietal rank; but can be too easily connected with
the typical form to be considered specifically distinct.
A. ferruginea Lea. Cited by De Camp from the upper peninsula.
A. Ferussaciana Lea. Cited by Sager, Miles, Currier and De
Camp.
A. Footiana Lea. Abundant everywhere and in great variety of
form. A. McNielii of Anthony is considered synonymous by Lea.
A, fluviatilis Dillw. Cited by Miles; also by Sager and Miles, as
A. cataracta Say. Cited by De Camp from Pentwater, and as A.
cataracta Say, from the Grand river.
A. Footiana opalina Anth. A most beautiful form, well entitled
to distinction as a color variety.
A. fragilis Lam. A very common species and in some of its
many varieties one of our most beautiful ones. A. flava, glandulosa,
imbricata, irisans and pallida of Anthony and A. subcarinata of
Currier are considered as synonyms by Lea. I have no doubt but
that some, at least, of these forms are entitled to varietal rank ; but
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have not sufficient authentic material to justify making such dis-
tinction at present.
A. imbecilis Say. Southern part of the State.
A. lacustris Lea. Cited by De Camp from the Grand River.
A. maryatana Lea. Cited as such by De Camp from Pentwater.
A. subinflata Anth., described from Michigan specimens and A.
Houghtonensis Currier, from Houghton Lake, Roscomraon County,
where it still is found in abundance, are referred here as synonyms
by Lea.
A. modesta Lea. Originally described from a specimen collected
near Kalamazoo; this species has been found in other localities in
the southern part of the State. It is closely related to A. subcylin-
dracea Lea.
A. ovata Lea. Specimens referred to this species indicate a gen-
eral range over the State. A. swhangulata Anth. is considered syn-
onymous by Lea.
A. pepiniana Lea. Cited by Miles. Also by Gould from the
north shore of Lake Superior. I am indebted to Dr. De Camp for
two specimens from Crooked Lake, Emmet County, which he refers
to this species and which agree fairly with Lea’s figure. They may,
however, be young A. Footiana. Another specimen received from
him, collected in Houghton Lake, Roscommon County, is probably
a half-grown A. Houghtonensis Currier. .
A. plana Lea. Southern part of the State. This is the largest
Anodon we have, and attains considerable magnitude in favorable
localities.
A. salmonia Lea. Southern part of the State. Specimens from
Maple River, Clinton County, are much larger and heavier than
those from Ohio.
A. Schafferiana Lea. Cited by Miles, Currier and De Camp.
A. subcylindracea Lea. Common everywhere and very variable.
Some forms seem to exhibit sufficiently persistent peculiarities to
justify giving them varietal rank.
A. subgibbosa Anth. Originally described from Black Lake,
Holland, Michigan. It also occurs in Mono and Muskegon Lakes
at Muskegon, where it is not uncommon.
Spherium simile Say. Common all over the State.
S. aureum Prime. The types are supposed to have been brought
from Lake Superior by the Agassiz expedition. Cited by De Camp
from Charlevoix County.
66 THE NAUTILUS.
S. solidulum Prime. Houghton Lake, Roscommon County ; iden-
tified by Dr. James Lewis.
S. striatinwm Lam. Very abundant everywhere and equally
variable.
S. rhomboideum Say. Appears to be generally but not abun-
dantly distributed through the southern part of the State.
S. fabale Prime. Not common but ranges over the State.
S. occidentale Prime. Quite common.
S. emarginatum Prime. The types are said to have come from
the region of Lake Superior. Cited by Currier and De Camp;
but apparently on the strength of Prime’s statement.
S. flavum Prime. Types from Sault Ste. Marie. Cited by Cur-
rier (‘‘ Lake Superior’) and De Camp.
S. partumeium Prime. Cited by Currier and De Camp from
Lake Superior, apparently from the statement given by Prime in
his original description. The citation from Houghton Lake in my
catalogue of 1879, is erroneous, as the specimen does not agree with
examples, supposed to be authentic, received from other localities.
S. sphericum Anth. Grand Traverse County and Fenton, Mich-
igan, identified by H. A. Pilsbry. Other examples from the latter
locality are referred to S. secure by E. W. Roper (Nauritus, iv,
p- 40).
S. transversum Say. Rouge River, Wayne County. Cited by
De Camp from Grand River, Kent County.
S. secure Prime. Generally distributed through the State.
S. secure crocea Lewis. \ Traverse City ; see Roper, NAuTIus, iv,
p. 40.
S. truneatum Lind, Generally distributed through the State.
S. vermontanum Prime. Cited by De Camp.
S. rosaceum Prime. Cited by De Camp.
S. stamineum Con. Western part of the State.
S. tenue Prime. Cited by De Camp.
Pisidum virginicum Bet. Cited in all the lists and apparently
distributed over the State.
P. adamsi Prime. Cited by Prime from Holly. Cited also by
Currier and De Camp.
P. compressum Prime. Abundant everywhere.
P. abditum Hald. Common everywhere.
P. abditum abyssorum Stimp. Common in Lake Superior at a
depth of from 4 to 159 fathoms according to Smith. Originally
described from Lake Michigan specimens.
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P. rotundatum Prime. “ Lake Superior,’ Prime and Currier ;
eited also by De Camp.
P. variabile Prime. Apparently ranges over the State as I have
it from Wayne, Washtenaw and Roscommon Counties. Cited also
by De Camp.
P. ventricosum Prime. Cited by Miles and De Camp.
P. noveboracense Prime. Cited by De Camp from Cass County.
P. equilaterale Prime. Detroit and Rouge Rivers, Wayne
County.
OBSERVATIONS ON THE HELICOID GROUP CHAROPA AND ALLIED
FORMS.
BY HENRY A. PILSBRY.
A striking illustration of the vast breadth of the intellectual
horizon open before the zoologist is the fact that notwithstanding the
large number of scientists, only comparatively rarely do two or
several workers publish simultaneously and independently upon
absolutely the same aspect or branch of the same special subject.
When such a coincidence happened in the times of our predecessors
it often gave rise to jealous rivalry, as in the case of Conrad and
Lea, and earlier, Say, Rafinesque and Hildreth. In these newer
days, cases of simultaneous discoveries in science should, and usu-
ally do, lead to an opposite result—to the most helpful and happy
friendship and sympathy between naturalists, even though half the
globe separates them.
These thoughts are brought to my mind by receiving, in the last
Australian mail, proof-sheets of an article by my friend, Charles
Hedley, of the Australian Museum, Sydney, N. S. W., entitled
“ Observations upon the Charopide.” In this article Mr. Hedley
discusses many of the points considered in my “ Observations on
the Helices of New Zealand,” published in the September N auTILus ;
and also extends his notes to the Australian and Polynesian forms.
I cannot refrain from quoting from his paper these passages :
“Widespread throughout Australia and Polynesia is a group of
land shells which, varying greatly among its members, yet appears
clearly distinguishable from other orders by the small size of its
species, their cancellated sculpture, in which stout ribs are a promi-
68 THE NAUTILUS,
nent feature, flame painting, straight sharp peristome, which
describes a convex then a concave sweep on approaching the right
insertion, and a projecting semitransparent callus, which buries the
sculpture of the whorl on which it encroaches. For this group I
provisionally accept the title Charopide, assigned by Hutton, 1884
(Trans. N. Zealand Inst. xvi, p. 199), extending, however, the
limits indicated by that writer. His vague diagnosis runs as fol-
lows: ‘Animal heliciform with an external shell; tail with a
mucus gland.’ No type is nominated by the author of the family,
and I therefore suggest that the type of Charopide would naturally
be the genus Charopa Albers, whose type species is C. coma Gray.”
Mr. Hedley proceeds to quote the original descriptions of the
groups Charopa Alb., Pitys Beck, Endodonta Alb., Libera Garr.,
Gerontia Hutt., Pyrrha Hutt., Psyra Hutt., Therasia Hutt., Thera
Hutt., Phacussa Hutt.; mentioning also Laoma Gray, Maoriana
Suter, Simplicaria Mouss.; concluding that ‘‘ From the above
review of the genera proposed, it will be seen that the student of
the Charopide is better supplied with divisional names than with ~
definitions.” And finally: ‘‘’To summarise: I would consider that.
Patula has no existence in the Pacific; that the southern species
usually referred to that genus are not even of the Helicide family ;
that these species can most conveniently be referred to one or other
of the genera enumerated above, which genera may be grouped
under the sabfamily Charopide, a division of the family Zonitide.”
It will be noticed that Hedley includes in Charopide most of the
forms which in my article were placed as sections under Patula and
Gerontia. The similarity of the shells of these two groups is
remarkable, but the information furnished by Hutton upon the
animals denied to the New Zealand Patulee—=Charopa, a mucus
gland upon the tail, and therefore I did not feel justified in uniting
the two groups, as I could see no reason for sundering Charopa from
the genus Patula. If, however, Charopa and its allies, Pitys, Endo-
donta, etc., possess a mucus tail gland, I would unhesitatingly fol-
low Hedley in his separation of Charopa from Patula, and in
grouping it with Gerontia (s. dat.). Unfortunately only dried
specimens are accessible to me, and the evidence furnished by
authors is so conflicting that we may well suspend judgment. In
the rank given to the group by Hedley I find myself unable to
fully concur. The presence of a caudal gland and furrows along
the foot margin are rarely if ever of more than generic importance.
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Very closely allied genera vary in this respect, as in the case of
Arion, Ariolimax, Prophysaon, Anadenus, Anadenulus, ete.; or in
the case of Cionel/a, which has no mucus pore, and Ferussacia,
which possesses this gland. It is hardly needful to multiply
instances—the Zonitide and Helicide are full of such cases,
although many of them are not yet to be found in the conchological
text books. The fact seems to be that this caudal gland is simply
a local exaggerated development, in a convenient place, of the mucus
secreting, glandular structure to be found over nearly the whole
upper surface of the foot; and it is likely to be developed independ-
ently in different groups. Its presence in different groups is, in my
opinion, no proof of genetic connection. I would therefore retain
Charopa, as well as the forms grouping around Gerontia, in the
Helicidse, on account of their dentition, which is not, it seems to
me, in any respect Zonitoid.'
The connecting links between Charopa, Simplicaria, Pitys, Mao-
riana, Endodonta and Libera seem to be too numerous to allow us
to regard these as separate genera; indeed, they are scarcely of
subgeneric rank, unless the examination of the animal reveals dif-
ferences more fundamental than those now known.
JAPANESE LIMPETS,
BY GEO. W. TAYLOR, VICTORIA, B. C.
The Japanese Patellidze were tabulated by Mr. Pilsbry in the
November number of the Naurrzus and the table was reproduced
with one slight alteration in the Manual of Conchology, vol. 13, p.
131, issued a couple of months later. Strangely enough, Mr.
Pilsbry omits from his table in both instances one of the commonest
species, namely, Helcioniscus encosmius Pilsbry.
A very fine series of this limpet was sent to me a short time since
by the Rey. H. Loomis, of Yokohama, and I have also received it
from Japan through Messrs W. H. Harrington and Frederick
Stearns. The specimens sent by the last named gentlemen were
1 Some recent authors speak of the “ families”? Patulide, Trochomorphide>
Cochlostylide, etc. It would be well for them to attempt to give a family
definition before using such terms.
70 THE NAUTILUS.
labelled amussitata while genuine amussitata came as toreuma. I
am by no means satisfied in my own mind, however, that the two
last named are not one and the same species.
H. encosmius is a very distinct and easily recognized species and
varies very little compared with other species of the genus. The
figures in Reeve (Conch. Icon. pl. xvi, p. 36) are good and so are
all those in the Manual of Conchology (vol. xiii, plate 71).
Mr. Pilsbry in the Manual points out that Reeve applied the
name P. variegata to two different species. The first described in
Conchologia Systematica which appears to equal rota of Gmelin
and the other in Conchologia Iconica twelve years later, this last
being the species Mr. Pilsbry now names H. encosmius on the
ground that the name variegata is preoccupied by Blainville for an
unidentified species from Botany Bay.
So far, so good, but Mr. Pilsbry next proceeds to quote asa syno-
nym for his encosmius, H. variegatus Dall, Amer. Jour. of Conch.,
vi, p. 277, but this was Reeve’s first variegatus = rota Gmel., as —
Dall himself surmised. Consequently Dall’s localities (which
Pilsbry has copied) are clearly incorrect when applied to encosmius-
My own impression is that the true H. encosmius Pilsbry (—vari-
egatus Rve., Conch. Icon., pl. xvi, f. 36) is a species restricted to
Japanese and Chinese waters, while the localities “Suez (Fischer)
and Red Sea and Gulf of Akaba (Smithsonian Cabinet),”’ given
by Dall and copied into the Manual are correct for rota Gmel. (=
variegatus Rve., Conch. Syst. ii, pl. 136, p. 1).
The remaining locality given in the Manual, viz., “ Australia”
(Rve.), is also, I think, an error, although I have received from
dealers specimens of encosmius which they assured me had come
from there.
I should have mentioned above that although Dr. Dall in his
paper in the American Journal of Conchology is writing evidently
of rota, not of encosmius, he quotes both of Reeve’s figures as
though referring to the same species.
[CoMMUNICATED. |
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CONCHOLOGISTS.
' PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 28, 1892.
Since the publication of the list of members, there have been
admitted to the Association, the following new members:
THE NAUTILUS. 71
Mrs. Anita F. Douredoure, 2203 Spring Garden St., Philadel-
phia, Pa. Subject—Cypreide.
Miss E. H. Pitman, Box 295, Bristol, R. I. Subject—Mollusca
of New England.
John W. Palmer, Union League Club, Chicago, Il]. Subject—
(not chosen yet).
Warren W. Herman, 149 Emerson St., Boston, Mass. Subject
—(not chosen yet).
Wm. H. Weeks, Jr., of Brooklyn, N. Y. has chosen for his sub-
ject of special study, the genus Bulimus.
In reference to the suggestion of a Convention of the members to
be held at Chicago next summer, there have been but few responses
as yet. The idea, however, will probably grow, and the members
may become interested in it. Itis merely a suggestion as yet and
of course, will amount to nothing unless the majority of members
think it a good thing. Let us hear from the members.
John H. Thomson of New Bedford, Mass., writes: “TI like the
suggestion of a Congress of Conchologists at the World’s Fair
next year.”
Dr. W.S. Strode is in full accord with the idea as may be seen
from the following letter :
Lewistowy, IIl., Sept. 7, 1892.
JoHN H. CAMPBELL, Esq.
Dear Sir.—Y our idea suggested in last Naurinus to have a
Convention during the World’s Fair of the “Amer. Asso. Con-
chologists” is just the thing. I am heartily in favor of it and
think it would double the pleasure of a visit to Chicago, at least in
my case, to meet the Conchologists face to face, and form an
acquaintance that has been hitherte only on paper. Let’s have it
by all means and then thoroughly discuss, review and possibly
revise our loved shells. If this can be done, I would not miss going
to the World’s Fair, for anything. Yours truly,
W.S. STRODE.
Mrs. M. Burton Williamson, of University P. O., Cal., has pre-
pared and published (by Smithsonian Institution) “ An Annotated
List of the Shells of San Pedro Bay and Vicinity.” It is a valu-
able list and highly creditable to the author. We have had occa-
sion already, to use it in connection with the collection of the Amer.
Association and find it of the greatest value. Several new species
of Prof. Dall’s are described and figured.
72 THE NAUTILUS.
Want of space in this issue of the Navurrius will postpone the
publication until next month of the acknowledgment of shells
received for the “ American Collection.”
The officers of the Association would like to hear from the mem-
bers in reference to the purposes, objects and workings of the Asso-
ciation. Suggestions are always received with much pleasure as it
aids them in their work. A short resumé of work performed dur-
ing the past summer by each member would make an interesting
article in next Naurrius, and we have no doubt that Messrs.
Pilsbry and Johnson will gladly throw open its columns for that
purpose, as they have already done for this series of articles on the
Association. J. HOG:
NOTES AND NEWS.
Errata. In the September Navritus, p. 54, in fourth line
from top, read “ leviuscula” in place of “ texana.” There is no H.
texand.
Tur Untontp& of Spoon River, Fulton Co., Ia., are enumerated
and intelligently discussed by Dr. W. S. Strode in the American
Naturalist for June.
Eprror Naurrius:—I see that in Mr. Cockerell’s article in the
July number, page 31, “Notes on the North American Species of
Succinea,” he says, “ (17) S. stretchiana Bland. I have seen this
from San Francisco, Cal. (G. W. Michael), sent by Mr. Singley.
It seems to be a small species, ete.”
During the seven years that I have been collecting in this county
I have never found nor have I heard of the above species being
found here. The only Succinea to be found in this county, to my
knowledge, is S. oregonensis. If Mr. Michael or Mr. Singley have
any of the said species to spare, will they kindly send to my address
a few of them for examination and comparison as also the exact
locality whence they were obtained and oblige. I doubt whether
Dr. J. G. Cooper and Wm. J. Raymond, two gentlemen who have
collected species from this county during the past fifteen years or so
have ever found S. stretchiana Bld. here.
Yours truly,
Williard M. Wood,
Tue NautTILus.
VOL. VI. NOVEMBER, 1892. No. 7
CATALOGUE OF THE GENUS PARTULA.
BY W. D. HARTMAN, M. D.
In the following pages is offered an arrangement of the species of
the genus Partula into groups according to their natural affinities.
The number now known is nearly a hundred species. Specimens of
nearly all of which I have personally examined, either in my own
collection, in the magnificent collection of HARPER PEAsg, or in the
museums of Paris, Geneva, etc. A description of the animal is also
given. |
In the next paper the geographical distribution of the leading
forms will be discussed.
The animal is terrestrial and viviparous, the body covered by a
mantle as in Helix, blunt before, tail long and gradually tapering.
Tentacles four, retractile, the upper having the eyes at their tips,
collar and labial processes largely developed, no mucous pore, distinct
locomotive disc, or parallel furrows alongside of the foot; anal and
respiratory orifices in the collar opening on the exterior angle of the
shell; organs of generation united, the orifice behind and below the
right eye peduncle, matrix ample and occupying much space in the
body cavity, often containing several shells of two or three
whorls, beside eggs arranged in succession as developed. Theembryo
shells exhibit spiral rows of fovea beginning at the apex, which after
extrusion are continued asspiral strise. The jaw is very transparent
and of a light horn color, slightly arcuate, and more or less atten-
uated at the ends; the whole anterior surface of the jaw is furnished
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with delicate narrow, separated ribs which break the continuity of
either margin and run obliquely to the median line where they form
a triangular space of ribs of unequal length, which do not reach the
lower margin; the number of ribs on each side of the median line,
vary in the same species, as well as in the different species, the whole
number in each jaw varying from fifty-five to ninety-six ; the lingual
membrane is broad and the denticles vary in size in the different
species some being narrower than others. Shell dextral or sinistral,
varying from oblong ovate, to conic ovate, and from solid to thin
and translucent or hyaline. Labium often flat, and widely reflected,
occasionally revolute or concave, aperture ovate, or auriform, more
or less contracted by the wide and often dentate columella. Surface
with minute spiral strize which are punctulate at the apex.
This genus may conveniently be divided into two subgenera:
Partula (in the restricted sense) and Diplomorpha. The species of
true Partula I divide into two divisions and thirteen groups, each
of which is named for a characteristic species.
I. Aurtrorm Division.
1. Faba Group.
P. faba Martyn. P. navigatoria Pfr.
P. citrina Pse. P. planilabra Pse.
P. vittata Pse. P. fusca Pse.
P. radiata Pse.
2. Auriculata Group.
P. auriculata Brod.
P. compacta Pse.
P. thala Garrett.
P. bilineata Pease.
3. Dentifera Group.
P. dentifera Pfr.
P. formosa Pse.
P. califera Pfr.
P. imperforata Pse., MS.
P. virginea Pse., MS.
P. dentifera,
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4. Lutea Group.
P. lutea.
P. lutea Lesson.
5. Umbilicata Group.
P. umbilicata. P. hebe.
P. umbilicata Pse. P. crassilabris Pse.
P. gibba Pfr. P. hebe Pfr.
P. bicolor Pse.
6. Otaheitana Group.
P. otaheitana Brug. P. lignaria Pse.
P. vanikorensis Q. & G. P. producta Pse.
P, mooreana Hartm. P. nodosa Pfr.
P. lineata Less. P. stolida Pse.
P. suturalis Pfr. P. filosa Pfr.
P. otaheitana. d a garrettii Pse.
7. Teeniate Group.
P. minima Hartm.
P. regularis Hartm.
P.micans Hartm.
P. corneola Hartm.
Pcanteriensis: P. woodlarkiana Hartm.
P. teniata Morch. P. hastula Hartm.
P. micans Pfr. P. clara Pfr.
P. carteriensis Q. & G. P. hyalina Mod.
P. attenuata Pse. P. Hartmani Smith.
P. cinerea Albers. P. flecuosa Hartm.
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P. lyrata Mouss. P. concinna Pse.
P. levigata Pfr. P. Cozi Angas.
P. pellucida Pse. P. kubaryi Hartm.
P. simulans Hartm. P. pellucida Pse.
( To be concluded.)
ANNOTATED LIST OF ALABAMA LAND MOLLUSCA.
BY F. E. SARGENT, WOODVILLE, ALA.
Those familiar with the scarcity of land mollusca in the northern
prairie States will appreciate the pleasure which one experiences in
coming from Minnesota to Northern Alabama.
With headquarters upon the top of Cumberland Mountain in
Jackson Co., it has been my pleasure during the past five months to
do some collecting of land mollusca, the result of which may be of
interest. The topography of the region is quite varied. The
summit of the mountain is comparatively level, rather sandy and
covered with timber. About half way down we come to the
“ benches” which are covered with lime-rocks. In most cases the
flat rocks are piled one upon another forming excellent retreats for
the smaller forms. At the foot of the mountain the “coves” are
level and in places covered with heavy open timber.
The following list is doubtless far from complete, as but a small
portion of the region outside of a radius of two miles from Wood-
ville has been searched.
1. Selenites concava Say. Large form. Common, mostly on
benches.
2. Zonites fuliginosus Griff. Frequent on benches.
3. Z. levigatus Pfr. Common on benches.
4. Z. ligerus Say. Large form, Few very fine.
5. Z. intertextus Binn. Few on top.
6. Z.arboreus Say. Common on top.
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S. partumeium Say. Very abundant everywhere and quite
variable.
GEORGE W. LICHTENTHALER.
BY MORTON J. ELROD, ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY.
The familiar face of George W. Lichtenthaler, one of the best
known of American conchologists, and one of the most earnest and
energetic collectors of natural history specimens, will be seen no
more. He passed away at San Francisco on Tuesday, February
20th., death being caused by fatty degeneration of the heart. He
was 60 years of age.
Mr. Lichtenthaler was born in Pennsylvania, and came to Bloom-
ington, Ill. at the age of twenty-two. For five years he was a drug
clerk, then bought out the stock, conducted business for himself for
seventeen years, after which he retired with a snug fortune. During
this time he imbibed a taste for natural history, and after his retire-
ment devoted his entire time and the proceeds of his large estate to
the gathering and collecting of shells, ferns, and algze. Mrs. Lich-
tenthaler died nine years ago, leaving no children. After her death
Mr. Lichtenthaler turned his mind more than ever to his chosen
work. His wife’s death was a great blow to him, and he was no
doubt greatly moved to collecting to forget hissorrow. His affection
for her is shown in his desire that the vast collection should be given
a name that would incorporate the name of “ Rebecca S. Lichten-
thaler.”
Mr. Lichtenthaler was an amateur collector, never having sold
specimens, or labored for hire. It was a labor of love. If he could
not exchange he would give of his duplicates to those who would
make use of them. Many people of this community treasure collec-
tions from distant climes given by him, and many a lad with a love
for nature has had this love fanned into a flame through his encour-
agement, and has gone from the presence of this great-hearted man
not only with a greater love for nature’s works, but with a
liberal gift of shells or other specimens carefully preserved. Many
a case has he recounted to me, sitting by my fireside, of boys he has
helped to knowledge and position, by pointing the way and lending
substantial aid.
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Had he desired, he might have been famous as a traveler, by put-
ting his observations in print. But he disliked and shunned public-
ity, and we know of nothing he has written. He was one of those
workers who cared little for making new genera or species, and who
collected not wholly for himself, but also for his fellow workers, and
for public museums. In his travels he has been in nearly every
country in the world, has been several times along the entire west
American coast, was at home in the Sandwich Islands, has traversed
the coast of Europe from North Cape to Gibraltar, and has been up
and down both coasts of Africa, as well as around the Indian Ocean.
In these travels many of the rarest species known to science were
brought together, and are left among his great collection.
He was one of the early members of the “ American Association
of Conchologists,” being enrolled as a member, May 15th, 1890. His
special study was shells of the Pacific Coast. He was an active and
enthusiastic member, and did much toward its promotion. His gift
of Pacific Coast shells to the collection of the Association was a large
and valuable addition.
Few men have as wide a personal acquaintance with men of
science as he had. Devoting all his energy and time to travel and
collecting, and having been all over the American continent, he met
them everywhere. His retiring disposition led him to make little
mention of his achievements and his great work was not known to
many of the people of his home. But to a few of his friends and
acquaintance who could appreciate his work he unburdened his
heart, and would recount his travels and experiences, and give
descriptions of museums and countries for hours at a time. He was
an interesting conversationalist, and would relate his experiences
in a manner that always commanded attention.
His main work wasin conchology. His collection embraces many
highly polished specimens, and he spared no expense to have always
the finest and best that was to be had. While on a trip to Francea
few years ago he heard of an English firm who cut gastropods lon-
gitudinally to show their spiral arrangement, and he has case after
case of shells of this exquisite workmanship. All his specimens are
authoritatively correct, having been labelled by the highest author-
ities, and we are glad to announce to the conchologists of the middle
and western United States that he has left the collection where it
will be accessible to the public for comparisons.
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His collection embraces shells, crustaceans, echinoderms, corallines,
corals, fossil shells and plants, minerals, ferns, and marine alge.
There are six to eight thousand species of shells, and at a low estim-
ate twenty-five thousand specimens, from all parts of the world.
There are eight hundred species of marine alge, and four hundred
species of ferns. The latter include a nearly complete collection of
the ferns of North America, a complete collection from the Hawaiian
Islands; also many from India, China, Japan, Australia, New Zea-
land, South America, Europe, ete. He stated that he had two
species not in any other collection.
This vast and valuable collection he leaves without reserve to the
Illinois Wesleyan University, in Bloomington, where his life has
been spent, where his bride was wedded and laid to rest; and here
his many friends will be permitted to again look through it, but
without his guiding hand and eloquent description. This gives the
Illinois Wesleyan University his life work, and endows it with one
of the finest conchological collections in the West. It will be
known as the “‘ George W. and RebeccaS. Lichtenthaler Collection,”
and will enshrine their names not only in the hearts of their friends,
but also in the hearts of many students who will receive inspiration
from his work, as many have done from his life.
NOTES AND NOTICES.
Correction.—In the February No. the date of Mr. Martindale's
death was by error given as Jan. 10, instead of Tuesday Jan. 3d.—
Bay.
Pror. B. Surmek, of the State University of Lowa, is collecting
invertebrates and cryptogamous plants in the interests of that institu-
tion in Nicaragua.
Conrap’s MepraL TertrAry.—The Wagner Free Institute of
Science of Philadelphia, Pa. proposes to reprint the book on The
Medial Tertiary Fossils of the United States by T. A. Conrad, if
150 subscriptions can be obtained at $3.50. For circular apply to
the Institute.
UNIO CoRUSCUS, SUBLURIDUS, ete.—In looking over Mr. Berlin
H. Wright’s “Notes on Unio coruseus Gould,” in the March
Nautiuus I see that he acknowledges that his U. fryanus can be con-
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nected by intermediate forms with U. coruscus; and he states that
he can as perfectly connect my U. sublwridus with any one of a half
dozen Florida species. Not long ago Mr. Wright sent me for
inspection the shells he identified as subluridus, and I saw at once
that he had made a total mistake as to the species ; as these specimens
were undoubted U. buckleyi, quite inflated, somewhat keeled, and
rather smooth, shining shells, and no more like my species than is
U. obesus. Individuals of Unio buckleyi, coruscus, lugubris, hazel-
hurstianus, and other species of the buckleyi group vary from being
absolutely smooth and rayed, a young or adult stage generally to
dull colored, and even rough externally, a condition quite common
in old specimens.— Chas. T. Simpson.
CoLLECTION OF SHELLS FOR SALE.— We learn that the collection
of Rev. A. Dean, numbering about 3500 species, is offered for sale,
as Mr. Dean is about to remove from his home at Muncy, Pa. The
American land shells are richly represented by a nearly complete
series, including almost all of the rarer species. The west African
and Sandwich Island forms are also well represented, as well as an
unusually large proportion of interesting foreign marine shells.
We are in receipt of “The Microscopical Bulletin” published by
Queen & Co., which contains a Bargain list or Clearance sale of
microscopes, objectives, ete. Any one desiring these should send for
the February Bulletin to Queen & Co., Chestnut St., Philadelphia.
Mr. B. B. Woopwarp has lately published (Ann. Mag. Nat.
Hist. Feb., 1893) a classification of the Pelecypoda, in which the
families of bivalves as given by Fischer are rearranged in accordance
with Pelseneer’s scheme founded on the morphology of the gills,
The table of families is very useful as it gives the gist of Pelseneer’s
ideas at a glance. In his review of the various recent classifica-
tions Mr. Woodward does not mention that of Dau, being
apparently ignorant of it. It is much to be regretted that those
who set forth new classifications should not first acquaint them-
selves with the work of their predecessors.
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