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better success I started out on the waters of Bay Biscayne, and was 
well repaid for doing so by discovering a colony of seventeen Pyrula 
papyratia. They were all moving along, a compact body, to the 
northward, and it was one of the finest sights I have ever seen while 
collecting. The animals were beautifully marked with crimson and 
brown spots. Their eyes were large and black, and their long, flat 
heads and necks were light gray. It seemed hard to have to take 
them from their native element and kill them for their shells. 
Four very fine Cyprea exanthema were found clinging to some 
mangrove roots, while close by on some rocks, several feet above 
the water, was a colony of hundreds of Tectarius muricatus and 
among them a handful of small Nerita versicolor. Already having 
a good supply of Tectarius at home, I only collected a few of the 
largest, and the Neritas. Littorina lineata covered the rocks every- 
where, but I did not molest them. One very fine Area noae was 
soon added to those already in the basket. Some fine Arca ponder- 
osa were also found. Fulgur perversum, F. carica, F’. pyrum were 
quite plentiful, but they were only small ones, so only a few of each 
were taken. ; 
My time being limited, I had to get back to Miami to take the 
train for Palm Beach, on Lake Worth—Lake Worth being my old 
and favorite collecting place. It would be difficult to find a better 
collecting place, for its size, than the flats around Lake Worth In- 
let. Lake Worth is a fine body of salt water lying parallel with the 
Atlantic Ocean, and separated from it by a narrow strip of land 
which, in some places, is only a very few rods in width. It is 
twenty-two miles long and averages from one-half to three-quarters 
of a mile in width. The sands washing in from the ocean have 
formed a large flat inside the lake at the inlet, and it is there we do 
our collecting. I have spent many days there very profitably. In the 
two days spent there in July I collected about three hundred Strom- 
bus pugilis in all stages of growth; Strombus accipitrinus, S. bituber- 
culatus and 8. gigas to be had for the taking. I also found, in lim- 
ited numbers, Lucina tigrina, L. pennsylvanica and L. divaricata, 
Dosinia elegans, Dolium galea, Cassis canaliculatus, C. testiculus, 
OCardium magnum and C. isocardia, while on every hand Nassa 
vibex, Cerithium minimum, C.muscarum, C. literatum, C. floridanum, 
Neritina virginea and Iphigenia brasiliana were found by the thou- 
sands. 
On the rocks on the north side of the inlet were found numbers 
of Purpura hemastoma and P. hemastoma var. undata. The rocks 
