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Written by Viranna Frank
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 Given the enormous size of the Natal Museum’s Mollusca collection, there are few South African land snail species which are not represented in our museum. Only rarely do our malacologists get to add such species to the collection, as occurred when Dai Herbert and Linda Davis returned from a field trip to the Western Cape in October. Together with other much needed research material, Dai and Linda added three South African species new to our collection, Trachycystis gilliana, Trachycystis hartvigiana and Chlamydephorus purcelli. The first, pictured here, is one of our largest pinwheel snails, measuring over 20 mm in shell diameter. The last is a species which Dai has been trying to find for many years to fill a gap in his dataset for this interesting group of carnivorous slugs.
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