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In 1878, Clessin, in Pfeiffer's Nomenc. Helic. viv., p. 69, has it nndev Hyal- 

 inia, Feeussac, in the sub-genus Polita, HEiiD, ( with H. cellaria, Mullek, as 

 the type of the sub-genns, ) separating it, with Zonites Isserica, Letoubn. and 

 Helix labUis, Gould, from the other species of his list by an asterisk, thus 

 indicating his doubt of its being correctly placed there, and citing Zonites Ber- 

 mudensis. Bland, as a synonym. 



Mr. Binney having clearly shown its lack of affinity with Zonites^ of which 

 many systematists regard Hyalina as a sub-genus, and he, with Mr. Bland, 

 having proven the necessity of its removal from the Helicacea, I, seeking to 

 define its position more closely, propose that the species shall be considered 

 the type of a new genus of the Family Vitrinea of Clessin's Pfeiffer's classifica- 

 tion, ( < Vitrinea, Von Martens' Albers, ) to be called Juiio and thus charac- 

 terized : 



JTJNO, Mazyck. 



Testa umbilicata, conoideo-depressa ; superne striata, apice obtnsa ; anfrac- 

 tus 7-8 planulati, ultimus acute carinatus ; basi subconvexus, laevis ; apertura 

 obliqua, subrhombea ; peristoma simplex, acutum, marginibus callo tenui 

 jjunctis ; margine collumellari breviter reflexo. 



Maxilla tenuissima, arcuata, medio tuberculo obtuso munita. 



Kadula elongata, angusta. Dentes centrales tricuspidati ; dentes laterales 

 bicuspidati ; dentes marginales aculeati, in lineis obliquis dispositi. 



Discus gressorius distinctus ; glandula muscosa nulla ; apertura genitalis 

 sub margine pallii, nee ad basin tentaculi oculigeri dextri posita. 

 Typus Helix Bermudensis, Pfeiffeb. 



Mr. Mazyck also mentioned that he had recently found Stenogyra subula, 

 Pfb. , in great numbers under a few planks laid in front of the main door of 

 Bennetts Eice Mill on East Bay Street in this City, where it had been first ob- 

 serA^ed by Mr. C. S. Bennett who had directed his attention to it. The locali- 

 ty is extremely restricted, being confined absolut-ely to the space — about eight 

 by eighteen feet — covered by the planks, between the crevices and on the sur- 

 face of which, after a shower of rain, it appears in enormous abundance. 

 It doubtless feeds upon the sweeping's of the mill. It is a West Indian species 

 and has been noticed at no other point in the United States except Mobile, 

 Alabama* 



Dr. G. E. Manigatjlt, speaking of the Cutlass Fish exhibited by him, said 

 that it had been sent to him for identification by Dr. R, A. Kinloch by whom 

 it had been captured off Sullivan's Island. It is also known as the Silver Eel, 

 and in Europe an allied species is called the Scabbard Fish. 



It abounds in the tropical Atlantic and is found in large quanties off the 

 coast of Florida and in the Gulf of Mexico. The St. John's River and Indian 

 River are its favorite haunts in Florida. 



