270 Mr. L. Reeve on the Habits and 



the ground, on Grand Vale Mountain, St. Elizabeth's, early in 

 June. 



57. Diaperis? (sp. nov.). Found at New Forest, near Alli- 

 gator Pond, where the singular honey-combed limestone is the 

 common rock. It was in December. 



58. Rhipiphorus (sp. nov.). A single specimen taken in June, 

 on the Hampstead Road : it was resting between two leaves of a 

 shrub. 



59. Mordella (sp.). 



60. Tenebrio (sp.). Common under heaps of stones in Blue- 

 iields pasture. 



61. Upis (sp. nov.). 



62. Attelabus (sp. nov. very near aureolus, Klug). This pretty 

 little insect was vei-y numerous in June on the Hampstead Road, 

 and it occurred also at the same season on Bluefields Mountain. 

 We invariably found the specimens resting on the leaves of trees 

 that overhung the road, and for the most part about ten or fifteen 

 feet from the ground. They were apt to fall off on the slightest 

 alarm. It has an odd appearance, as if it were but two-legged, 

 from the great development of the anterior pair of legs. The 

 spot on each elytron is golden during life, but after death fades to 

 a dull drab hue. 



[To be continued.] 



XXVII. — On the Habits and Geographical Distribution of Buli- 

 mus, a genus of Air-breathing Mollusks. By Lovell Reeve, 

 F.L.S. 



The beautiful forms and varieties of shells produced by those 

 air-breathing mollusks, which, under the generic appellation of 

 Bulimus, constitute an important division of the great tribe of 

 Snails, have become objects of especial interest to the concholo- 

 gist, owing to the zeal with which a few enterprising scientific tra- 

 vellers have lately penetrated into tropical countries in pursuit 

 of them. It is, however, to the productive exertions of Mr. 

 Cuming that we are mainly indebted for the newer and more 

 attractive species. The researches of this ardent naturalist in 

 the arid plains on the west side of the Andes, in the dense woods 

 of West Columbia and Central America, and more recently in 

 the luxuriant open forests of the Philippine Islands, whilst they 

 present an instructive contrast, exceed any result the most san- 

 guine collector could have anticipated. In the dry and barren 

 regions of Western Chili and Peru, the Bulimi are mostly small, 

 and of comparatively fragile structure ; but in the beautiful islands 

 of the Eastern Archipelago, where climate and vegetation com- 



