Journal of conchology . ual Meeting will be held at the Manchester Museum,on Saturday, October 16, and members who intend to exhibit arerequested to furnish particulars and amount of space required toMr. R. Standen, Manchester Museum, without delay. It is absolutely necessary that those who wish to be present at theTea should send word beforehand to Mr. Jackson at the Museum. The inconvenience caused by those who neglect this elementarycourtesy is very considerable. Tentacular Abnormality in Helix nemoralis.—On April 25th of this yearI found at Brook, near ..\shford, in Kent, a specimen of Hel
Journal of conchology . ual Meeting will be held at the Manchester Museum,on Saturday, October 16, and members who intend to exhibit arerequested to furnish particulars and amount of space required toMr. R. Standen, Manchester Museum, without delay. It is absolutely necessary that those who wish to be present at theTea should send word beforehand to Mr. Jackson at the Museum. The inconvenience caused by those who neglect this elementarycourtesy is very considerable. Tentacular Abnormality in Helix nemoralis.—On April 25th of this yearI found at Brook, near ..\shford, in Kent, a specimen of Helix nemoralis withcuriously deformed tentacles. The upper pair are conjunct for half their length,thus forming a fork, like the letter Y. The lower tentacles are even more where the right tentacle would normally be, there is a kind of irregular repro-duction of the upper fork, the right prong being much bigger than the left one ;both these prongs possess the characteristics of tentacles. On the other hand,. where the left tentacle would normally be, there is a small protuberance, whichonly resembles a tentacle in that it is somewhat retractile. This is the only featurenot shown in the drawing, whicli is x 3. In all other respects the snail is appar-ently quite a normal five-banded example. Mr. J. W. Taylor informs me that hehas not observed this abnormality in H. nemoralis before ; so I think it should berecorded.—A. J. Akkeli, (Read before the Society, June 9th, 1915). A New Variety of Columbella misera Sow. from Japan.—I have recentlyreceived from Mr. Hirase, of Kyoto, specimens of a very pretty form, which Iassign to this species, and which seems to deserve a varietal name. I thereforepropose to call it Columbella misera var. nigromaculata nov. The shell is almostor quite pure white, with a single peripheral band of interrupted black spots—onespot on each of the longitudinal ribs. The band occurs on each of the last threeor four whorls, and the spots vary
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