OOO PKOCEEDINGS OF THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



EEPORT ON THE LAND AND FRESH-WATER SHELLS COLLECTED 

 BY MR. HERBERT U. SMITH AT ST. VINCENT, GRENADA, 

 AND OTHER NEIGHBOURING ISLANDS. 



By Edgar A. Smith, F.Z.S., etc. 



Read May \Qth ami June 1-i^/j, 1895. 



PLATE XXI. 



The collection about to be described forms part of a consi^mcnt of 

 specimens obtained by Mr. H. H. Smith, who, under the auspices of 

 a joint committee of the Royal Society and tlie British Association, 

 was instructed to make collections of the fauna and flora of some of 

 the Lesser Antilles. The molluscan fauna of many of these islands 

 is but very imperfectly known, and therefore the results obtained 

 under the direction of this committee are of considerable value. 

 Keports upon collections from Dominica and St. Lucia have already 

 been published by the writer.' 



I. ST. YIKCEXT. 



Up to the present time no complete list of the known species of this 

 island, with references, has been published, and it is therefore hoped 

 that the present catalogue will be found useful. In 1861 Mr. Thomas 

 Bland '^ wrote a most important paper on the land- shells of the West 

 Indian Islands, and added a list of the known species of each. Under 

 St. Vincent, he enumerated a dozen forms, half of which were originally 

 described by Guilding, who was the first to pay special attention to 

 the fauna of this island. The next list of the known species was that 

 published by Dr. W. Kobelt '^ in 1880, in which three more species 

 were added to those enumerated by Bland, raising the total to fifteen. 

 Mr. B. J". Lechmere Guppy * in the following year issued another list, 

 including four species not mentioned in the previous catalogues. The 

 Stoiofiyra f:picnhim erroneously quoted by Kobelt was described by 

 Benson as from St. Vincents, one of the Cape Verd Islands, and 

 therefore has no connection with the West Indian fauna. 



In the present collection thirteen terrestrial species occur which 

 have not previously been recorded from the island, besides four fresh- 

 water forms. Of this number only three appear to be new, the rest 

 being species which are, with one exception, distributed in other 

 islands of the West Indies. The single exceptional species referred 



1 Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1888, vol. ii, pp. 227-234, and 

 pp. 419, 420 ; and 1889, vol. iii, pp. 400-405. 



- Ann. Lvceuni Nat. Hist. New York, vol. vii, pp. 335-361. 



3 Jahrb. deutsch. mal. Gesell. 1880, p. 284. 



* Proc. Sci. Assoc. Trinidad, vol. ii, pp. 163-1G6 (1881). 



