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The Natural Hiftoryof JAMAICA, 
This refembles the laft but one in every thing, only is much blacke: 
or darker colour’d, and looks fo from che many dark Lines upon it, 
with fome white round Spots. ’Tis fmooth, and hath a Mouth and 
Covering to it like others of this Kind. Whether the three laft be not 
only Varieties Iam not certain. 
I found it onthe Shoars of Famasca. 
V. Nerita vel Citrinus, vel coloris castane’, Lift. Hts. Conchyl. Tab. 607. 
N° 30. 
This Nerita is fmaller than any of the former, round,fmooth and yellow. 
I found one of thefe in Famaica, and have had them from the Coafts 
of Ireland, Scotland, and England, as well as from Nova Zembla, by 
Captain Wood, who was fent to difcover a Paflage to China by the 
North-Eatft. 
VI. Nerita exiguus, nigro lineus ore fubcroceo. List. Hift. Conchyl. Tab. 
605. N° 31. Nerita Famaicenfis alba, parva, ftrits caftanets. Pet. Gaz. 
Nat. Tab. 1§. N° 8. Small Jamaica Saffron mouth’d Verst. Ej. cat. 
claff. top. p.g4. No. 581. | 
This is about a quarter of an Inch Diameter, fmooth, white, with 
a great many oblique dark brown or blackifh Lines running over its 
outfide. The Mouth ts wide and yellow. 
I found this plentitully on the Shoars of Samaiea, and fometimes 
with the Lines rubb’d out. 
VII. Nerita maximus variegatus, ftriatus ad Columelam ex auro & croco 
rufefcens. Lift, Hift. Conchyl. Tab. 595. No.1. Nerita Americanus e ni- 
grorubedine undata. Pet. Mem. Cur. Ann, 1708. p. 126. No. 12. 
This hath the Twirls or Circumvolutions of the Shell prominent at its 
Top, and is about an Inch Diameter. Ic is white, ftriated after the man- 
ner of the courfe of the Spire lengthways, and mark’d with tranf- 
verfe black or purplifh colour’d crooked or undulated Fafcie or 
Belts. It is tooch’d on the Side of che Circumvolutions, and is there a 
little Saffron colour’d. 
I found this on the Shoars of the Ifland Famaica. 
VIII. Nerita profunde fulcatus, e nigro, albo, Gr purpureo variegatus. Lift. 
Hist. Conchyl. Tab. Mut. 596. No. 7. 
This is much the fame with the former, only the Szdcé are deeper, 
the Spots are black or Purple, and not continued in Belts. The whole 
Shell is {maler. 
I found them with the former, with their long Opercule with, Hermit 
Crabs in them and all white, I have alfo had them from Siam. 
IX. Nerita profunde fulcatus, ex albo nigroque variegatus, paucis c exiguis 
dentibus ad columellam ad roftrum multis & Longe deductis, Lut. Hift. Lon- 
chyl. Tab. 5 97. No. 9. Nertta Sfamaicenfis ex albo nigrogue teffelatus. Pet. 
Gaz, Nat. Tab. 13. Fig.12. Barbadoes Lettice-pied Nerit. Fj. Cat. p. 94+ 
No. §79. Mem. cur. dan. 1738. p. 126. No. 11. Valvata fulcata nigrs. 
Kump. Lhef. Anim, Tab. 22. lit N. Nerita magis Afpera. Bena. p. 141. 
No. 220. Maf. Karcher. p. 462. N°. 220 : 
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