NOTES ON RECENT COLLECTIONS OF NORTH AMERICAN LAND, 

 FRESH WATER, AND MARINE SHELLS RECEIVED FROM THE 

 U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



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Robert E. C. Stearns, Ph. D., 



Adjunct Curator of tJie Department of Afollnsks. 



The following" species, received during the year 1S92 from the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, rejD resent the MoUuscan portion of the collections 

 made during said year by Dr. C. Hart IVIerriam and his assistants, in 

 the Division of Biological Kxplorations, 



As in previous accessions from the above source, many interesting 

 facts pertaining to the geographical distribution of the forms collected, 

 give additional value to the material obtained, and furnish many items 

 of importance relating to the local faun<e of various parts of the country. 



Following the terrestrial species which constitute the principal part 

 of the collection, a few fresh-water species are listed, closing with sev- 

 eral marine forms from the Gulf border of the State of Mississippi. 



Class GASTROPODA. 



PULMONATA-GlOOPHILA. 



Family TESTACELLID.E. 



Genus GLANDINA Scluimacher. 



Glandiua truncata fJiiielin. 



One or two examples from each of the following localities: 

 Chattahoochee, Fla. ; Houma, La.; Washington, Miss.; Riceboro, 

 Liberty County, Ga.; Vernon Bailey, April, 1892. Mr. K. J. 

 Thomiison also obtained two examples of this speciies at the last-named 

 place at about the same time. The Georgia si)ecimens were found on 

 the Le Conte iilantation. 



This is a widely distributed vSpecies and probably the most familiar 

 form of the genus. It is found in the "Atlantic and Gulf States, from 

 Korth Carolina to Texas, as far north as Macon in Georgia, Bibb 

 County, Ala., and Jackson, Miss.'- I found it quite numerous among 

 the grass in moist, springy ground ju.st outside the military reserva- 

 tion of Fort Brooke, at Tampa City, Fla., in 18G9. My collection 

 included the typical form as well as the varieties. pHraJlela^ etc. 



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