70 THE NAUTILUS. 



quite hard to clean properly. The Indians are fond of the sole- 

 like strip which protects the insides, and are fond of the eggs which 

 are very numerous. These animals look so much like the rocks on 

 which they cling, that few of the frequenters of the beach knew the 

 animal when we showed it to them. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



GREEN-HOUSE SHELLS. This spring I found some Zonites ylaber 

 Stud, in one of the green-houses of this city. It was identified for me 

 by Dr. W. H. Ball. Arion hortensw Fer. was found at the same 

 place and identified by Mr. H. A. Pilsbry. Zonites lucidus Brap is 

 found in all the green-houses of the city. 



P. B. RANDOLPH, Seattle, Washington. 



NOTE ON LEDA CAELATA HINDS. This species was described by 

 Hinds in the Geology of the Voyage of the Sulphur, p. 64, pi. 18, 

 fig. 13, 1844, and Proc. Zool. Soc. London for 1843, p. 99. But 

 Conrad had already described a fine species of Leda from the Clai- 

 borne sands under this specific name, in the Am. Jour. Sci., Vol. 

 XXIII, p. 343, Jan., 1833. This, in Becember of the same year, 

 was renamed brogniarti by Lea, Contr. to Geology, p. 82, pi. 3, fig. 

 (51. Consequently the species of Hinds requires a new specific 

 name. As there is already a L. hindsii of Hanley, I propose to 

 substitute for coelata the specific name of taphria, while Leda broy- 

 iiinrti Lea must retain the prior name of Conrad. W. H. BALL. 



CALLISTA VAEIANS HANLEY, IN EASTERN FLORIDA. Mr. J. J. 

 White, of Rockledge, Fla., reports the finding of numerous speci- 

 mens of this species in Lake Worth, on mud flats near the Inlet. 

 This seems to be the first finding of this West Indian species in 

 Florida. 



NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



BlAGNOSES OF NEW MOLLUSKS FROM THE SURVEY OF THE MEXI- 

 CAN BOUNDARY, by W. H. Ball (Proc. U. S. N. Mus., xviii, pp. 1-6). 

 Patula strigosa var. concentrata, New Mexico ; a small race, further 



southward than any other reported. 

 Epiphragmophora arizoneusis, near Tucson, Arizona. 

 Epiphragmophora hatcliitana, Hachita Grande Mt. 

 Epiphragmophora arnheimi, California. 



