LAND-SHELLS. 
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but especially the former, are most jealous recluses 
in common, haunting the dark recesses of the moun- 
tain forests, find in the green pimento a temptation 
too strong to be resisted. 
In a piece of ground just reclaimed from the 
forest, cleared and burnt over, but not yet planted, 
full of blackened stumps and stones, I searched for 
land-sheils. Under the stones were great numbers 
of the pretty pink Cylindrella cylindrus, with the 
whorls diagonally fiuted in an elegant manner. Al- 
though multitudes were alive, I was surprised to 
observe that all were defective at the apex, which 
had evidently been broken off. But from some spe- 
cimens which were less maimed than others, and 
from the discovery of one or two of the detached 
apices, I perceived that in a perfect state this shell 
would terminate in a slender elegant spire, colourless 
and pellucid ; and at length I had the pleasure of 
finding a single specimen (the only one I ever ob- 
tained) in this perfect condition. Other shells were 
also found in some abundance, as Helix sinuata, 
picturata, and soror ; Cyclostoma xanthostoma and 
mirahile ; Cylmdrella Maugeri ; Helicina pulchella, 
neritella^ aureola, &c., all under stones, inert and 
apparently torpid. 
Some other interesting animals were found under 
stones in this locality, though not all at the same 
time. A curious little dark grey Oniscus, every seg- 
ment of which is armed with two spines, was nume- 
rous ; it has been described by my friend, Mr. 
Adam White, of the British Museum, under the 
name of Acanthoniscus spiniger. Some Earth-worms 
