270 Mr. L. Reeve on the Habits and the ground, on Grand Vale Mountain, St. Elizabeth^s, early in June. 57. Diaperis? (sp. nov.). Found at New Forest, near Alli-gator Pond, where the singular honey-combed limestone is the common rock. It was in December. 58. Rhipiphorus (sp. nov.). A single specimen taken in June, on the Hampstead Road : it was resting between two leaves of a shrub. 59. Mordella (sp.). 60. Tenebrio (sp,). Common under heaps of stones in Blue fields pasture. 61. Upis (sp. nov.). 62. Attelabiis (sp. nov. very near aureolus, Klug). This pretti little insect was veiy numerous in June on the Hampstead Roadj and it occurred also at the same season on Bluefields Mountain. We invariably found the specimens resting on the leaves of tree that overhung the road, and for the most part about ten or fifteei feet from the ground. They were apt to fall off on the slightest alarm. It has an odd appearance, as if it were but two-legged^ from the great development of the anterior pair of legs. The spot on each elytron is golden during life, but after death fades tc a dull drab hue. [To be continued.] XXVII. — On the Habits and Geographical Distribution of Buli-raus, a genus of Air-breathing Mollusks. By Lovell Reeve, F.L.S. The beautiful forms and varieties of shells produced by those air-breathing mollusks, which, under the generic appellation of Bulimus, constitute an important division of the great tribe of Snails, have become objects of especial interest to the concholo-gist, owing to the zeal with which a few enterprising scientific ti-a-vellers have lately penetrated into tropical countries in pursuit of them. It is, however, to the productive exertions of Mr. Cuming that we are mainly indebted for the newer and more attractive species. The researches of this ardent naturahst in the arid plains on the west side of the Andes, in the dense woods of West Columbia and Central America, and more recently in the luxuriant open forests of the Philippine Islands, whilst they present an instructive contrast, exceed any result the most san-guine collector could have anticipated. In the dry and barren regions of Western Chili and Peru, the Bulimi are mostly small, and of comparatively fragile structure ; but in the beautiful islands of the Eastern Archipelago, where climate and vegetation com-
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