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better success I started out on the waters of Bay Biscayne, and was 

 well repaid for doing so by discovering a colony of seventeen Pyrula 

 papyratia. They were all moving along, a compact body, to the 

 northward, and it was one of the finest sights I have ever seen while 

 collecting. The animals were beautifully marked with crimson and 

 brown spots. Their eyes were large and black, and their long, flat 

 heads and necks were light gray. It seemed hard to have to take 

 them from their native element and kill them for their shells. 



Four very fine Cyprce-a exanthema were found clinging to some 

 mangrove roots, while close by on some rocks, several feet above 

 the water, was a colony of hundreds of Tedarius muricatus and 

 among them a handful of small Nerita versicolor. Already having 

 a good supply of Tectarius at home, I only collected a few of the 

 largest, and the Neritas. Littorina lineata covered the rocks every- 

 where, but I did not molest them. One very fine Area noae was 

 soon added to those already in the basket. Some fine Area pouder- 

 osa were also found. Fulgur perversum, F. carica, F. pyrum were 

 quite plentiful, but they were only small ones, so only a few of each 

 were taken. 



My time being limited, I had to get back to Miami to take the 

 train for Palm Beach, on Lake Worth Lake Worth being my old 

 and favorite collecting place. It would be difficult to find a better 

 collecting place, for its size, than the flats around Lake Worth In- 

 let. Lake Worth is a fine body of salt water lying parallel with the 

 Atlantic Ocean, and separated from it by a narrow strip of land 

 which, in some places, is only a very few rods in width. It is 

 twenty-two miles long and averages from one-half to three-quarters 

 of a mile in width. The sands washing in from the ocean have 

 formed a large flat inside the lake at the inlet, and it is there we do 

 our collecting. I have spent many days there very profitably. In the 

 two days.spent therein July I collected about three hundred Strom- 

 bus pug His in all stages of growth ; Strombus accipitrinus, S. biiuber- 

 culatus and S. yigas to he had for the taking. I also found, in lim-. 

 ited numbers, Lucina tigrina, L. pennsylvanica and L. divaricata, 

 Dosinia elegans, Dolium galea, Cassis ccmaliculatus, C. testiculus, 

 Cardium magnum and C. isocardia, while on every hand Nsa 

 vibex, Cerithium minimum, C. muscarum, C. literatum, C. floridanum, 

 Neritina virginea and Iphigenia brasiliana were found by the thou- 

 sands. 



On the rocks on the north side of the inlet were found numbers 

 of Purpura hcemastoma and P. hcemastoma var. undata. The rocks 



