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List of the Land Shells of Bermuda

1 Succinea fulgens. Lea. also Cuba.

2 [Succinea] bermudensis. Pfr. [also] Barbados?

3 [Succinea] margarita Pfr [also] Anita and var. major in Trinidad, doc Pfeiffer.

4 (Pac) Hyalinia Bermudensis. Pfr.

(add ——— var. H. Nelsoni, Bland, subfossil)

5 (Pac) [Hyalinia] circumfirmata, Redfield

6 (Pac) [Hyalinia] discrepans, Pfeiffer

7 (Pac) Patula Reiniana [Pfeiffer]

*8 [Patula] hypolepta Shuttleworth (=? minuscula Binney)

9 Helix vortex Pfr. (microphysa)

also in ^southern Florida, N.S., and in the Bahamas & many of the Greater and Lesser Antilles

10 [Helix] microdonta, Desh. (Polygyra)

also in New Providence & Eleuthera Bahamas

11 [Helix] appressa Say (Triodopsis) — also in the Interior region of the United States (Virginia &c) Mr J Matthew Jones suggests that it was introduced by the early settlers who had constant intercourse with Virginia.

H. hypolikta Shutt.

* This species is probably minuscula Binney, or a var of it. Burney's species occured in Mexico, California, Cuba, Jamacua &c, also in Japan.

[2] 2 12 Helix pulchella Müll (Valonia)

Widely distributed in Europe &c. — generally considered the same as H. minuta Say of the N. States, but Mr G. W.Tryon treats them as distinct.

13 [Helix] ventricosa, Drap. / (ochlicilla)

this is the B. ventrosus Fer of my list of 1861

14 Bulimulus fattax ^{nitidulins Pfr.} (Pupoides).

this is the B. nitidulus Pfr. of my list of 1861. also in Cuba, Haiti &c.

15 Stenogzia octona (H. / Lubulina) widely distributed in the West Indies — also found in Brazil, Venezuela &c

16 Cionella acicula Müll (Lecilioides). Also Florida & New Jersey, U.S. And in Europe &c.

17 Pupa pellucida Pfr (Leucochila). widely distributed in the West Indies

18 [Pupa] Barbadensis Pfr (Vertigo) (also in Barbados). vide Shuttleworth in list.

19 [Pupa] Jamaicensis (B. Ad.) (Vertigo) also in Jamaica

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20 Hyalinia conversa Pfr. also in Barbuda (specimens so determined by Pfeiffer). A semifossil form from Antigua appears to be var. major of this species (Purvis)

[3] 3 The species, of which the specific names are underlined were included in my list of 1861, in which list H. ochroleuca Fer. is also included.

H. ochroleuca Fer. desc. & fig. is = H. rufozonata Fer. from Mauritius vide Nerill. Reeves fig. of ochroleuca is H. Bermudensis Pf. var.

The only species peculiar to Bermuda are H. Bermudensis, and cicumfirmata, and [illeg.] & P. Reiniana.

For notes on H. Bermudensis see Bland, Annals XI p. 77 and Binney Proc. Phila. Acad. 1876 p. 183 — both papers herewith sent.

I have, for the sake of uniformity, followed the classification of Clessin in Pfeiffer's posthumous work now in course of publication, "Nomenclator Heliceorum Viventium". Cassel 1878.

With respect to the remark of Mr Wallace that "the land shells of Bermuda appear to be the only group in which there are any peculiar species" I am not able to speak with certainty.

Possibly the lizard Plestiodon longirostris of Cope is peculiar — I will ask Prof. Cope³ & advise his reply.

[4] 4 The occurrence ^{in Bermuda} of a Land Nemertine worm is noticed by Moseley⁴ in "Notes by a Naturalist on the Challenger"⁵

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Geographical Distribution of Animals.

Vol. II.⁶

Notes

p. 77 Stenopus is not peculiar to the West Indies (St. Vincent). I described Stenopus guildingi from Venezuela, in 1866. Two lately described by Angus, Zool. Proc. 1879 from Costa Rica.

p. 527 Proserpinidae — not exclusively West Indian: of the genus Cyane & Blandiana, H. Adarus from Eastern Peru, described in 1870, Zool. Proc.

Proserpina Swift, Bland from Venezuela in 1863 and Proserpinella Berndti Bland from Mexico in 1865 (Annals). The 2 species of the genus Ceres are also from Mexico.

p. 61 Curaçao &c. are situated near the Coast of South America, "of which they form part zoologically". The land shells of Caracas & Buen Azra considered, this is not so.

In both Strophia ^{(1 species)} occurs, but not in South America. The genus is chiefly represented in Cuba and the Bahamas, one or two species in Haiti, Puertorico [sic], and the Virgin Islands, — not at all in Jamaica, — a semifossil species in St. Croix, — none in the Lesser Antilles.

[6] Tudora chiefly represented in Jamaica, Cuba, & Haiti, with one species in Anguilla ^{(none in Lesser Antilles)} , one in Mexico, one in N. Africa & one in South Africa, has two species in Curaçao & Buen Azra. Curaçao has one species of Cistula, one of <Machocerarus> and one of [illeg.], but no ^{genus of} species ^{or genus} characteristic of South America ^{unless it be} Bulimulus multiliseatus Say is common to Venezuela & Curaçao & Buen Azra, found also in [illeg.]. and B. elongatus Botham, of the West Indies West Indies are the only occurs also in Buen Azra both the islands in question.

p. 78 General Conchsious as to the Past History of the West Indies.

At a meeting of the National Academy of Washington, held in the early part of the present year, Prof. Agassiz read a paper (not yet published) on his dredgings in the Caribbean Sea — he found a great bank which formerly connected Honduras with Jamaica, Haiti and their neighbouring islands. An abstract of this paper was published in "Science News" , and I will endeavour to send copy.

In addition to the Geology of Jamaica, we now have a valuable paper, with geological map, by the late Mr W. M. Gubb Gabb, on the Geology of the Domingo, in Trans. of the Amer. Philosophical Society Vol. XV. new series 1873 Part I.

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p. 515 Cylindrella

The Phillipine Island species is now admitted to be my Ennea & is refined to that genus by Pfeiffer Mon. Nat. [illeg.] VII. p. 507[.]

p. 516 Macroceramus Occurs in Honduras & in the Mexican fauna — surely not in Peru.

p. 521 Bourciatia belongs to the Helicoidae — not only dentition considered, but the internal septa of the whorls are absent as in Heliana.

p. 518 Oncidinea Schramini Bland & W. G. Binney from Guadelupe, described in Annals Vol. X. 1873 p. 339

Onchidium carpenteri W. G. Binney is from Lower California.

T. Bland⁷ [signature]

Dec/79