MOLLUSCA. 213 



don, 1843-4. The diagnoses of the species of several genera 

 are given in the Proceed. Zool. Soc. of London. 



Sowerby Conchological Illustrations. London. 



Kiener Species General. Of this work, the Parts from 

 83 to 92 appeared in 1843, containing the text to the 

 genera Murex and Strombus, as well as the plates of Strom- 

 bus, Pterocera, Rostellaria and Ancillaria. 



Of Lamarck's Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Ver- 

 tebres, the ninth volume of the second edition, by Deshayes, 

 appeared in 1843. It contains the lauthinse, Macrostomata 

 (Siyaretus, Stomatella, Stomatia, Haliotis), Piicacese (Torna- 

 tella, Pedipes, Pyramidella], Scalarinae (Vermetus, Scalaria, 

 Delphinula), Turbinaceae (Solarium, Bifrontia, Rotella, Trochus, 

 Monodonta, Turbo, Littorina, Planaxis, Phasianella, Turritella}, 

 Canaliferse (Cerithium, Pleiirotoma, Turbinella, CanceUaria, 

 Fasciolaria, Fusus, Pyrula, Stmthiolaria, RaneUa, Murex, 

 Triton] and the Alatae (Rostellaria, Chenopus, Pterocera, 

 Strombus.} Like the preceding volumes the present is dis- 

 tinguished by the numerous remarks on the organization of 

 the animals ; in regard to which especially, the valuable 

 observations of Qnoy and Gaimard in the Voyage of the 

 Astrolabe have been employed. With these are combined 

 numerous corrections in the systematic arrangement of the 

 genera; here, however, Lamarck's frequently inconvenient 

 arrangement is retained as matter of course. In the 

 synonymy there are considerable additions and important 

 corrections. Finally, the work acquires extraordinary utility 

 from the addition of a great number of species which 

 have been made known in later publications, and which 

 have here been rendered more easy of recognition by a 

 much more ample mode of treatment than that followed 

 in the first edition of Lamarck's work. 



Lamarck's species of shells, comprising the whole of the 

 recent additions in Deshayes' last French edition, with 

 numerous species not noticed by that naturalist, accom- 

 panied by accurate delineations of almost all the shells 

 described, and forming the last edition of the Index testa- 



