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prise nineteen beetles, eleven bees and wasps, twenty-six 

 butterflies and moths, nine flies, and the same number of 

 Hemiptera, Orthoptera, and Neuroptera respectively. All 

 appear to be common North American or West Indian 

 species ; but until some competent entomological collector 

 visits the islands it is impossible to say whether there are 

 or are not any peculiar species.^ 



Land Mollusca. — The land-shells of the Bermudas are 

 somewhat more interesting, as they appear to be the only 

 group of animals except reptiles in which there are any 

 peculiar species. The following list was kindly furnished 

 me by Mr. Thomas Bland of New York, who has made a 

 special study of the terrestrial molluscs of the West Indian 

 Islands, from Avhich those of the Bermudas have undoubt- 

 edly been derived. The nomenclature has been corrected 

 in accordance with the list given in Professor Heilprin's 

 work on the islands. The siDCcies which are peculiar to 

 the islands are indicated by italics. 



List of the Land-Shells of Bermuda. 



1. Sitccinea fnlgens. (Lea.) Also in Cuba. 



2. ,, Bernmclensis. (Pfeiffer.)... ,. Barbadoes (?) 



3. ,, margarita. (Pfr.) ... ,, Haiti. 



4. Pcecilozonites Bermuclensis.^Ph-.) ... A peculiar form, which, according 



to Mr. Binney, "cannot be 

 placed in any recognised genus. " 

 A larger sub-fossil variety also 

 occurs, named H. Nelsoni, by 

 Mr. Bland, and which appears 

 sufficiently distinct to be classed 

 as another species. 



5. ,, circumfirmatas {^edi^Ql^.) 



6. ,, discrepans. (Pfr.). 



7. ,, Beinianus. (Pfr.) 



8. Patula (Thysanophora) hypolepta. (Shuttleworth.) 



9. ,, vortex. (Pfr.) Southern Florida and West Indies. 



10. Helix microdonta. (Desh.) ... Bahama Islands, Florida, Texas. 



11. ,, appressa. (Say.) Virginia and adjacent states ; per- 



haps introduced into Bermuda. 



1 Fourteen species of Spiders were collected by Prof. A. Heilprin, all 

 American or cosraopolitian species except one, Lycosa atlantica, which Dr. 

 Marx of Washington describes as new and as peculiar to the islands. 

 (Heilprin's The Bermudas, p. 93.) 



