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but especially the former, are most jealous recluses 

 in common, haunting the dark recesses of the moun- 

 tain forests, find in the green pimento a temptation 

 too strong to be resisted. 



In a piece of ground just reclaimed from the 

 forest, cleared and burnt over, but not yet planted, 

 full of blackened stumps and stones, I searched for 

 land-shells. Under the stones were great numbers 

 of the pretty pink CyUndrella cyl'mdrus, with the 

 whorls diagonally fluted in an elegant manner. Al- 

 though multitudes were alive, I was surprised to 

 observe that all were defective at the apex, which 

 had evidently been broken off". But from some spe- 

 cimens which were less maimed than others, and 

 from the discovery of one or two of the detached 

 apices, I perceived that in a perfect state this shell 

 would terminate in a slender elegant spire, colourless 

 and pellucid ; and at length I had the pleasure of 

 finding a single specimen (the only one I ever ob- 

 tained) in this perfect condition. Other shells were 

 also found in some abundance, as Helix sinuata, 

 picturata, and soror ; Cyclostoma xantliostoma and 

 mirahile ; Cyli7idrella Maugeri ; Helicina pulchella, 

 neritella, aureola, &e., all under stones, inert and 

 apparently torpid. 



Some other interesting animals were found under 

 stones in this locality, though not all at the same 

 time. A curious little dark grey Oniscus, every seg- 

 ment of which is armed with two spines, was nume- 

 rous; it has been described by my friend, Mr. 

 Adam White, of the British Museum, under the 

 name of Acanthoniscus spiniger. Some Earth-worms 



