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A YEAR IN BRAZIL. 



SHELLS {Mollusca). 



List of shells collected in a short ramble by the Bay of Bota- 

 fogo, Rio de Janeiro. 



I am indebted to the kindness of J. Cosmo Melvill, Esq. 

 F.L.S., for naming the specimens. 



The classification is from Paetel's " Conchylien Sammlung," 

 1883 ; from H. and A. Adam's " Manual of Mollusca," 1858 ; and 

 from G. P. Woodward's "Manual of the Mollusca," 1880. 



Family — MuRlciD^. 

 Murex, Linn. 



Salleanus,* A. Ad. 

 sp.* 

 Triton, Lam. 



vestitus, Lam. 



Fam. — BucciNiD.E. 

 Purpura, Lam. 



biserialis, Blaine. 

 deltoides (?),* Linn. 



Fam. — NATICID.e. 

 Natica, Lam. 



dubia, Ruhy. 

 ruficollis. Reeve. 



Fam. — CerithiaD/E. 

 Cerithium, Brug. 



semi-ferrugineum. Lam. 

 striatissimum, Sowb. 



Class— GASTEROPODA. 

 Order — Prosobranchiata, M. Edw. 



Fam. — CalyptRjEIDjE. 



Crepidula, Lam. 

 aculeata, Gmel. 

 hystrix, Brod. ( = aculeata j8). 

 plana, Linn. 



Fam. — TURBINID^. 

 Omphalius, Phil. 

 brasilianus, Mke. 



Fam. — FlSSDRELLID^. 

 Fissurella. 

 sp.* 



Fam. — Patellid.«. 

 Patelloida, Quay. 



subrugos'a, D'Orb. 



[Order — Pulmonifera. 

 Fam. — Helicid^. 

 Bulimus, Scop. 



oblongus, Mill. ( = hasmastoma, Ami.). 



This shell is very common everywhere in Minas Geraes, but I 

 never found it with the mollusc inside. Mr. H. W. Bates says 

 that " the land molluscs are the only animals which sestivate • they 



* Much worn. 



