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THE NAUTILUS. 



revealed one specimen from Summerside, P. E. I., and two speci- 

 mens from Woods Roll, Mass. This indicates a wide distribution. 

 HENRY W. WINKLEY. 



SHELL COLLECTING ON THE MOSQUITO COAST The following 



extract is from a letter to Mr. 8. Raymond Roberts, from a former 

 Ohio collector. Wounta ffaulover, Nicaragua, Sept. 27, 1900. This 

 coast, for twenty miles back from the sea, is a net-work of lagoons, 

 rivers, creeks, channels. The " dry " land is mostly swampy, inun- 

 dated, or partly so, during the wet season. In fact, this Mosquito 

 Coast, which upon the map is so firm and solid-looking, is in reality 

 a Dismal Swamp, multiplied by about five. Hence, so far as I am 

 able to judge, it is not a good locality for Bulimulidce and other land 

 shells. Back from the sea, say twenty miles, and also south and 

 west of Bluefields, where the land is more elevated, I believe there is 

 better collecting. Right down here on the very coast I have found 

 but four species, owe of which I afterwards lost. Buliniulus corneus 

 Sowb. I found plentiful at Bluefields. Also another lot, which I 

 take for Stenogyra octona Linne, I found in abundance. Another 

 shell, presumably a Pupa, was collected sparingly. These last two 

 also in Bluefields. Here, Wounto Haulover, is a good locality for 

 Littorina columellaris D'Orb., and Principulka, just twenty miles 

 south of here, is an ideal place for superfine Donax cayennensis Lam. 

 WILLIAM H. FLUCK. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



A DESCRIPTIVE ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF THE MOLLUSCA 

 OF INDIANA, by R. E. Call, Ph. D. (24th Annual Rep. of the State 

 Geologist for 1899, Indianapolis, 1900). " This catalogue is intended 

 to be complete and to fully exhibit the present state of knowledge 

 concerning the group of which it treats, as presented in the fauna of 

 Indiana." It is accompanied by a bibliography, and illustrations of 

 the species. The latter are reproduced from the Smithsonian series 

 " Land and Fresh-water Shells of N. A.," except the Unionida?, most 

 of which were drawn by the author. The figures only rarely repre- 

 sent Indiana specimens, and are rather rough. 



Fifty species of land shells are enumerated, 55 aquatic gastropods, 

 and 110 bivalves. The table of distribution shows- the Ohio and 



