THE NAUTILUS. 47 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



MESSRS. S. H. STUPAKOFF AND GEO. H. CLAPP gave a lecture 

 on shells at the regular monthly meeting of the Academy of Science 

 and Art of Pittsburgh, held in the lecture room of the Carnegie 

 Library, Pittsburgh, on Friday Evening, June 5th. It was illus- 

 trated by specimens from the collections in the Museum, and wall 

 charts. After the lecture an adjournment was taken to the Museum. 

 The lecture is the first of a series arranged with the idea of populariz- 

 ing the Museum, which occupies spacious rooms in the Carnegie 

 Library. 



NOTE ON LIA, ALBERS. The names Lia and Lelu being pre- 

 occupied, Schaufuss proposed the term INLIACULUS for this Jamaican 

 group of CylindrellidcB, in the first edition of Psetel's Catalogue 

 (MolluBCorum Systema et Catalogus. System und Aufzahlungsam- 

 mtlicher Conchylien der Sammlung von Fr. Paetel, 1869, p. 15). 

 This will take precedence over Vendryesia Simpson (Proc. I). S. Nat. 

 Mus., xvii, 1894, p. 430). FAUXULUS Schauf. is proposed for F'/it/a 

 H. Ad., a South African group of Pupidce, and new names are also 

 brought forward for Parthenia, Cantharidus, Orphnus, Aciculn, 

 Rupicola and some other groups. Most of these changes are un- 

 necessary, but they seem to have escaped general notice. 



NOTE ON MACTRA. In the Saco market, a few days ago, a spec- 

 imen of Mactra tolidisiima was opened, and found to have another 

 of the same species in the gill cavity ; the sizes in inches were : 



1. 31X21X1!'*. 



2. 11X11 XI. 



The size of the smaller leads me to snspect that it had been some 

 time in the larger, not as a parasite, but as partner. HENRY W. 

 WINKLEY, Saco, Me. 



MR. CHARLES W. JOHNSON, junior editor of the NAUTILUS, sailed 

 on the 13th of July for Liverpool. He will spend the summer in 

 studying the Museums of England, France and Germany, returning 

 in September. 



MR. FREDERICK STEARNS, of Detroit, Mich., has departed upon 

 an extended tour in South America. 



NOTICES OF PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



DIAGNOSES OF NEW SPECIES OF MOLLUSKS FROM: THE WEST O > 

 OF AMERICA, by W. H. Dall (From Proceedings of the U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum xviii, 1895, pp. 7-20). 



