60 THE NAUTILUS. 



MARYLAND SHELLS. In the NAUTILUS, Vol. X, p. 23, you men- 

 tion some shells not before recorded from Maryland, Inter aim, H. 

 intertexta Binn. I find, however, this is recorded from that State by 

 Binney in his Terr. Moll. U. S., II, p. 207. G. K. Gude. 



MESSRS SIMPSON AND WALKER have been making a vacation 

 journey in North Carolina and Georgia. They report the rivers too 

 high for successful clamming. 



MR. E. G. VANATTA is spending the summer at Chestertown, Md. 



NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



MR. G. K. GUDE describes a new Corasia from Luzon, C, 

 in Science Gossip for August. It is a pale-blue shell, another of the 

 beautiful H. rer/ince group. The following Philippine and Marianne 

 Island Helices are figured : Ganesella catocyrta, G. <ijn:r with var. 

 Endodonta quadrasi, C/iin-/>/>n fiixca and Troekomorpha 

 Mlldff. it Quadras; also Pyramiduta omaliama " Bgt." 

 Fagot, from near Barcelona, Spain. These species have not hitherto 

 I ice ii figured. 



I. A REVISION AND SYNONYMY or THE FARVUS GROUP OF 

 UNIONIDJE. II. SECOND CONTRIBUTION TO A KNOWLEDGE OF 

 INDIANA MOLLUSCA. III. INDIANA UNIV. BIOL. STA. REPORT ON 

 MOLLUSCA (From Proc. Indiana Acad. Science for 1895). By R. 

 Ellsworth Call. In the I'nio /mrcttg group, Professor Call recog- 

 nizes four species: U. purvus, U. texasensis, U.glaii*, U. amygdalum. 

 Alleged synonyms of U. parvus are: U. paulus, minor, margin is, 

 foi-riiniK, I't'sk-ii/in-ix of Lea and U. sing ley anus Marsh. From this 

 extraordinary synonymy it will be seen that our author belongs to 

 the extreme "lumper" class. Some other points in the paper are 

 equally ill-taken, but it is not worth while to criticise in detail where 

 nearly everything is wrong. Six plates of characteristic, though 

 rather crude figures, illustrate the forms. 



The second and third papers continue Prof. Call's very praise- 

 worthy efforts to record the distribution and variations of Indiana 

 Mollusk-, ami do not admit of abstract here ; but those interested in 

 i lie ilc'iailcd mapping of the areas of our species will be grateful for 

 Call's good work in this field, as well as for the similar service he 

 ilid in cataloguing Kansas shells. 



