THE NAUTILUS. 11 1 



A COLLECTOR IN WESTERN CUBA AND THE ISLE OF PINES. 



Dv niiv. II. K. wiii!:i:Lt:it. 



(^Concluded from p'igc 108). 

 Tiie last few days of rny vacation were s[)<Mit on an excursion to 

 the Isle of Pines, and I was fortnnate in liaving Dr. de hi Tone fof 

 a travelling companion. Looking at tl;e map one sees tliat in out- 

 line it is very like tlie profile ot an ancient volante, (he typicaj 

 Cuban carriage, and tliis comparison lias Ijcen handed down by tiiose 

 who travelled in that cuiious and now almost forgotten veliicie. 



Baron von Humbohlt ami Ainie Bunpland visited tlie Island 

 early in the nineteenth century, making important geologicial atid 

 botanical observations. The first concliologist to explore its shores 

 was D. Jose M. Velasquez. Tiiis was sometime in the early thir- 

 lies, but he publislied no description of the species collected. A 

 little later Count Arthur .Morelet made an expedition to the Antilles, 

 sailed aiound the Isle of Pines, landing near the present capital, 

 Nuevji Gerona, on the Casas R'ver. His book, entitled " Teslucea 

 Nnvtssiina Insula Ctihava et America Centralis," descrilies species 

 collected here as well as in Cuba and C^Mitrai America. The 

 epecii'S described from the Isle of Pines were: 



Olcaciaa fiillifuliiris (= 0. snbuht/a, Pfr?). 



Oleacina paragramma (= O. solidida, PIr.). 



Cylimlrella (Urocoptis) pruinosa. 



Cyclosloma semicanum, a very rare species from the South Coast.' 



Cyclostoma pupoides. 



Cyclostoma disjunctum (a synonym of C. moreletiana, Petit, dis- 

 junclum being preoccupied). 



Helicina (Priotrochatella) constellata,' and Ilelicina scopulornm. 



Poey described Trochdtella sleU<i(a* hom Velasquez' manuscript. 

 This species is not found on the Sierra de Casas, the home of its 

 nearest congener, Trochalella consfel/ata, but on the Sierra de 



> Published 1849-1851. 



'At Ciirapnclii Bci, meJ^ning "Turtles' Bay," a name given to it by the 

 fisliennen of Ciiynmn's Islands. 

 'See Revue Zool., 18-47, p. 147. 

 ♦See Poey, Mem. I., pp. 117, 447; .and Jay, Cat. 1330. 



