the Caribcean Inlands, 1(>7 



licacy ; but it is a dish which, like that of the huge frog of Dominica, I 

 have never brought myself to taste. 



The covered aperture leading through the parietal bone into the cavity 

 of the cranium, may be named Foramen Homeanum, after one of the 

 most zealous comparative anatomists of the age. 



MOLLUSCA. 



Fam. HELiciDiE, Guild. 

 Carocolla Barbadensis. 



C. nigro-fuscescens, coUo fusco bilineato, tentacuhs saturatioribus, 

 pallio abdomineque nigro-marmoratis. 



Testa solida, transversim plicata, ferrugineo-fusca, fascia angusta fla- 

 vida ; labiis crassis, sordido-lividis ; dentibus obsoletioribus. 



Habitat copiosissime sub lapidibus Barbadensibus, gregatim cum He- 

 licinis aliisque Molluscis. 



Var. /3. paUida, flavida. 



Junioris testa acuta ; adultse solida, rotundata, adiaphana. 



Genus. Brachypus,* Guild. Clausilia et Pupa, Auctorum. 

 Char. gen. 



Animal heliciforme. Tentacula quatuor, ma,joribus oculatis. Os 

 subtus : Pes brevissimus, difficillime testam elongatam trahens. 



Testa fusiformis, gracilis, anfractibus plurimis, omnibus angustis : 

 basilari coarctato, subcarinato. ^pertura parvula, simplex, subrotun- 

 data, edentula : labia reflexo-incrassata, undique connata. Operculum 

 nullum. 



Brachypus costaius. 



B. flavescens, dorso nigrescente, oculis atris. 



Testa fusca, longitudinaliter obliqu^ costata, anfractibus iindecim t 



Habitat in arboribus Barbadensibus, apice seepe decoUato. 



Long. , 41 lin. Diam., 1^ hn. 



Lister, t. 20, fig. 16 .'' Figura rudis, dubia. 



An Clausilia collaris ? Lam , Anim. sans vert. t. 6, p. 2, 114. 



* Nomen a fSpaxvc brevis, et ttsc pes. 

 Obs. This g^CBeric appellation will require to be changed, as it has been al- 

 ready employed by Mr. Swainson to designate a genus of Birds. See Zool. 

 Journ. Vol. III. J}. 163.— Ed. 



