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ISLAND LIFE. 



[part 11. 



in Greenland but has not yet been noticed in North America. 

 It is however so like the American snipe {S. wilsoni), that a 

 straggler might easily be overlooked. 



Two small bats of N. American species also occasionally 

 reach the island, and these are the only wild mammalia except 

 rats and mice. 



Insects of Bermuda. — Insects appear to be very scarce ; but it 

 is evident from the lists given by Mr. Jones that only the more 

 conspicuous species have been yet collected. These comprise 

 nineteen beetles, eleven bees and wasps, twenty-six butterflies 

 and moths, nine flies, and the same number of Hemiptera, 

 Orthoptera, and Neuroptera respectively. All appear to be 

 common North American or West Indian species; but until 

 some competent entomological collector visits the islands it is 

 impossible to say whether there are or are not any peculiar 

 species. 



Zand Mollusca. — The land-shells of the Bermudas are some- 

 what more interesting, as they appear to be the only group of 

 animals except reptiles in which there are any peculiar species. 

 The following list has been kindly furnished me by Mr. Thomas 

 Bland of New York, who has made a special study of the 

 terrestrial molluscs of the West Indian Islands. The species 

 which are peculiar to the islands are indicated by italics. 



List of the Land-Shells of Bermuda. 



1. Succinea fulgens. (Lea.)... ... Also in Cuba. 



2. ,j Beramdensis. (Pfeifrer.) „ Barbadoes (?) 



3. ;, margarita. (Pfr.) ... „ Haiti. 



4. Hyalina Bermudensis. (Pi'r.) ... A peculiar form, which, according 



toMr. Binney, ^'cannot be placed 

 in any recognised genus." A 

 larger sub-fossil variety also 

 occurs, named H. Nelsonl, by 

 Mr. Bland, and which appears 

 sufficiently distinct to be classed 

 as another species. 



5. „ circiimfirmata. (Redfield.) 



6. discrepans. (Pfr.) 



7. Patula Reiniana. (Pfr.),.. 



8. „ hypolepta. (Shuttleworth. ) Probably the same as P. mm?<scM?a 



(Binney), a wide-spread Ameri- 

 can species. 



9. Helix vortex. (Pfr.) Southern Florida and West Indies. 



