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ISLAND LIFE. 
[part II, 
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. 
Land 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. „ Bermudensis. (Pfeiffer.) ,, Barbadoes (?) 
3. ,, margarita. (Pfr.) ... „ Haiti. 
4. Hyalina Bermudensis. (Pfr.) ... A peculiar form, which, according 
to Mr. Binney, “cannot be placed 
in any recognised genus.” A 
larger sub-fossil variety also 
occurs, named H. Nelsoni , by 
Mr. Bland, and which appears 
sufficiently distinct to be classed 
as another species. 
5. ,, circumfirmata. (Redfield.) 
6. ,, discrepans. (Pfr.) 
7. Patula Reiniana. (Pfr. ) . . . 
8. „ hypolepta. (Shuttleworth. ) Probably the same as P. minuscula 
(Binney), a wide-spread Ameri- 
can species. 
... Southern Florida and West Indies. 
9. Helix vortex. (Pfr.) 
