Notes on certain Terrestrial MoUusks which inhahit the West 

 Indies . 



By T. Bland. Jiead Jione 4 and Oct. 22, 1855. 



I. On the Occukj:^p:nce of Pupa bicolor Button jn the 

 Island of St. Thomas. 



Shortly after C(^mnumicating to the Society Mr. E. J. Shut- 

 tleworth's CataJogue of the Terrestrial and Fluviatile Shells of 

 St. Thomas (Ann., V^ol. iv., p. QS\ I received another species, 

 which had just been discovered in that island, viz. Pupa hico- 

 tor Hutton. 



A dead shell was found there in February, 1854, bv one of 

 the family of Mr. A. H. Eiise, and a considerable number of 

 live and dead specimens have since been collected in the same 

 locality, near the town, in "Berg's Garden" by the "Gut" 

 which runs behind the Protestant Episcopal Church. 



On receipt of some of the shells I submitted them to Mr. J. 

 H. Eedneld, w^ho determined the species. 



Benson, in Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., A^ol. iv., 2d series 

 (1849), mentions that the beautiful vermilion and yellow tints 

 (seen through the shell, which is diaphanous and colorless), first 

 attracted his attention to the animal in Bundelkhund in 1825 

 and that he subsequently took it at the foot of the Himalayas,' 

 in Eohilkhund; in the Do-ab of the Ganges and Jumna; at 

 Jounpore and Mirzapore, in the Benares division, north and 

 south of the Ganges ; and on the west bank of the Hooghly 

 river, near Calcutta. In 1847 he met with it at Point de Galle 

 in Ceylon, and Dr. Cantor found it, though rarely, in Pulo 



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