MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS STROPHIA. 
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name of S. zebra of Reeve, bat this is not the S. zebra described by 
him and figured by him in his monograph. The true S. zebra is a 
shell without striations, but with lines of growth only, and with the 
markings massed together in large, prominent blotches. My friend, 
Mr. F. C. Browne, has some Strophias in his collection, labelled as 
coming from the west coast of Andros, which answer to Reeve’s 
figures and description of S. zebra quite nicely. Unfortunately 
Reeve says his S. zebra came from the Bahamas, without giving direct 
locality. 
HABITS AND DISTRIBUTION. 
The first specimen of S. curtissii, that I ever saw was gathered 
by Mr. Curtiss from some bushes which grew near the western border 
of the pond that lies to the eastward of the city of Nassau and which 
is known as Waterloo. Here they are scattering and are mostly 
confined to the south side of the road which goes out to the beach near 
the old magazine, but I found a few dead shells west of this road. 
Later we found the type locality, which was in the cemetery 
between Waterloo and the city. On the north side of this enclosure 
is the type locality. On the hill in the middle of the cemetery among 
the fig trees I found a sub-species (S. c. nivea) and to the eastward 
of a path crossing the cemetery, another species, S. thorndikei. On the 
hill was also the smooth form, No. 4, and in the valley beyond it a 
similar form to that found at Waterloo (No. 2) already described. 
Outside the cemetery wall to the westward I found a few, also large, 
coarsely-striated specimens. 1 could not trace them south of the 
southern wall of the cemetery, nor even quite to the wall. They are 
exceedingly abundant in the type locality, which occupied about a 
quarter of an acre. Here the bushes, to which they had evidently 
been clinging, had been cut down, and many of the shells were upon 
the herbage, in other places, especially toward Waterloo, they were 
clinging to shubbery ; all were hybernating when we found them early 
in March, and they were often gathered together in clusters. When 
taken into the house they began to move about, after a time, but in 
most cases refixed themseves either to one another or to the sides of 
the boxes, in which they were kept. 
The elongated form, No 3, occurs between the type locality south 
and the top of the hill and a little beyond it. Numbers 1, 2, and 3. 
are about equally common, each representing about one per cent, of 
the type form, but No. 4 is very rare, only five being taken. 
