K'S OXY>TYLA, ANTILLES. 



Alt. /iO, diam. 27^, longest axis of aperture 28 mill. (Kingston). 



Alt. 70, diam. 39, longest axis of aperture 4<> mill. (Yallalis). 



Alt. ")!), diam. 32, longest axis of aperture 33 mill. (Yallalis). 



Alt. 53^, diam. 27, longest axis of aperture 2S 1 , mill. (Yallalis). 



Jamaica : " Rock Fort," etc., near Kingston (Gloyne, Feilden, W. 

 J. Fox, C. W. Johnson) ; east of Kingston^ and Hojte Jtirrr (Hen- 

 derson & Simpson); Yallahs (U. C. Smith). Transported from near 

 Kingston to the Suburbs of Bridgetown mid on Pel/con Island < Bar- 

 bados (Feilden), 



Bitlintns zebra Miill., C. B. ADAMS, Contrib. to Conch, no. 3, pp. 

 40, 48; Catalogue of Land Shells which inhabit Jamaica, 1<S.">1, p. 

 184. Ortfmficnx zebra (Miill.), E. A. SMITH and H. W. FKII.IH \, 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (C), viii, 181)1, p. 253 (exclusive of reference 

 to Reeve) CKOSSE & FISCIIKK, Miss. Scient. Mex., Moll., p. 441 

 (exclusive of much of the synonymy and distribution), pi. 18, f. 8 

 (epiphragm). 



Orl/ialints inuldtiis var. o, SHTJTTLEWORTH, Notitia- MalacologlCC 

 i, p. f>3, pi. 3. f. 4. Orthalicus nndatns Brug., GLOYNE, Journ. cle 

 Conchyl., 1H~"), p. 120. W. G. BIXNEV, Annals of the Lyceum of 

 N:it. Hist, of New York xi, p. 41, and also the notes on genitti/iti 

 (and probably j:i\v and dentition) of nndatns in Terr. Moll, v, p. 110, 

 and Man. Amer. Land Shells, p. 440. STRKI-.KL, Beitr. Mex. Land- 

 und Siiss\\asser Conchylien v. |>. 2(1, form A. pi. 2, f. 11 (shell uf a 



Jamaican specimen) TUYON, Amer. Journ. Conch, iii, p. 1 ('>(>, pi. 



13 (!)), f. 1. HKXI.I-:I;M.\. Nautilus viii. p. 111. 1S ( J4. 



More or less doubtfully pertaining to the Jamaican form : Ihilla 

 zebra < 5 , G.MKLIX, Syst. Nat. (13), |). .". l.'il, liased on Zcl>rn nt'iill<ri 

 Cm MM i /. Sy>l. Ciuicli. Cab. i.\, pt. 2. p. 2-1, pi. 1 is, f. lui:., 

 See ;il>o new edition, linUmns, pi. 2, f. 1,5. lli'li.r ^Cochto 

 a, ill, it, i FI';I;I 98AC, I'nxlr. no. 337; I listoire, pi. 11 1, f. .", (i. 

 iriis niidiihis (iii part) Beck, Index, p. .V.I. f < >rllt<d i<-n* -,hr,i < ). F. 

 Miiller, STUKKKL, lieitriiire Mex. Land- nnd Siisswasser- Conch, v, p. 

 21. pi. 11, f. I'd. 



The d'-ad, lu~t i-i'h ---, and rather rouirh surface of most Jamaican 

 shells is apparently due to the extreme drvness of the climate of the 

 MHilhern I'oriioii of lh<' i>land. lv;i-t of King>ton the species is locally 

 very abundant, on treo, but il> rangi- is conlined to a small area. This 

 limited r:ni'je, with the faet lliat the spec-ies lives mainly near human 

 habitation.-, cmi-ed C. B. Adam> to suggest that it had lieen intro- 



