122 THE NAUTILUS. 



spotted indistinctly with numerous small white spots; there is scarcely 

 any sign of lateral punctation on the columellar side. 



Alt. 35, diam. maj. 22 mm. 



Hab. : N. E. Queensland. 



NOTES. 



PEARL-HUNTING IN THE Fox RIVER, ILLINOIS. Pearl-hunting 

 commenced in the Fox river this last summer. One or two pearls 

 were found by accident before. Now several tons of the shells have 

 been taken out, perhaps as much as ten tons. Many of the nearby 

 residents have done some hunting for sport, but two parties made a 

 business of pearl-fishing, and perhaps worked 90 days. They re- 

 ceived $1,800 for the pearls taken out. Two pearls were valued at 

 $GOO each. Jewelers from New York city wrote to a firm in Aurora, 

 111., telling them to buy all the Fox river pearls they could get, as 

 they were of the finest quality. Thus the craze spread late in the 

 fall until, I am told, one could count fifty persons in sight hunting 

 clams. They worked until the law to protect clams during breeding 

 season went into effect L. A. KEENE, Waterman, 111. 



PLANORBIS BICARINATUS In order to complete the records of 

 distribution of Planorbis bicarinatus, records, preferably accompanied 

 by specimens, are desired from Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Florida, 

 Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, South Dakota, Wyoming, 

 Utah, Nevada, Arizona and California. The data obtained will be 

 published in THE NAUTILUS. BRYANT WALKER, 205 Moffatt 

 Building, Detroit, Mich. 



DR. W. HOYLE, Director of the Manchester Museum, has been 

 appointed Director of the National Museum of Wales at Cardiff. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



PYRAMIDELLID^E OF NEW ENGLAND AND ADJACENT REGION. 

 By Paul Bartsch (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. 34, pp. 67- 

 113, pi. 11-14, 1909). An interesting and valuable paper giving in 

 detail the work done by various authors, followed by descriptions of 

 all the genera, subgenera and species. Under Pyramidella are 

 placed two subgenera Eulimella and Syrnola. One new species, 



