THE NAUTILUS. Ill 



A COLLECTOR IN WESTERN CUBA AND THE ISLE OF PINES. 



IJY KEV. II. K. WIIEELEU. 



(Concluded froi:i p(jr. 108). 



The last few days of my vacation were spent on an excursion to 

 the Isle of Pines, and I was fortunate in having Dr. de la Torre for 

 a travelling companion. Looking at the map one sees that in out- 

 line it is very like the profile ot an ancient volante, the typical 

 Cuban carriage, and this comparison lias been handed down by those 

 who travelled in that curious and now almost forgotten vehicle. 



Baron von Humboldt and Aime Bonpland visited the Island 

 early in the nineteenth century, making important geological and 

 botanical observations. The first conchologist to explore its shores 

 was D. Jose M. Velasquez. This was sometime in the early thir- 

 lies, but IIH published no description of the species collected. A 

 little later Count Arthur Morelet made an expedition to the Antilles, 

 sailed around the Isle of Pines, landing near the present capital, 

 Nueva Gerona, on the Casas River. His book, entitled " Testacea 

 Novissima lusula Ctif>tn/(z et America Centralist' describes species 

 collected here as well as in Cuba and Centra! America. The 

 species described from the Isle of Pines were: 



Oli'cicinti fol I it-ill' iris ( 0. subnltilo, Pfr?). 



Oleacina paragramma (= O. solidula, Pfr.). 



Cylindrella (Urocoptis) pruinosa. 



Cyclosloma semicanum, a very rare species from the South Coast.* 



Cyclostoma pupoidee. 



Cyclostoma disjunctum (a synonym of C. moreletiana, Petit, dis- 

 junetuin being preoccupied). 



Ilelicina (Priotroehatella) constellatn, 8 and Ilelicina scopulorum. 



Poey described Trochafella Stella ta* from Velasquez' manuscript. 

 This species is not found on the Sierra de Casas, the home of its 

 nearest congener, Trochalella constef/ata, but on the Sierra de 



1 Published 1849-1851. 



2 At Carapachi Bci, meaning "Turtles' Bay," a name given to it by tho 

 fishermen of Cayman's Islands. 



3 See Revue Zool., 1847, p. 147. 



4 See Poey, Mem. I., pp. 117, 447; and Jay, Cat. 1850. 



