108 THE NAUTILUS. 



and U. raitricosiis and some others. But as the authorities have 

 not agreed on this matter, I have included them as separate species. 

 (As Dr. Strode will issue a complete printed list of the Uuionida3 

 in some other form, the list as added to his report is not reproduced 

 here. M. B. W.) 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



A LARGE DECAPOD. I have been greatly interested in an im- 

 mense Cephalopod which came ashore about five miles south of Jack 

 Mound, Anastatia Island. Only the stumps of the teutacles were 

 left, as it had been dead for, perhaps, days. The body proper 

 measured 18 feet in length, 11 feet in breadth and 3* feet thick 

 above the sand as it lay soft and flattened on the beach. Of course 

 there is no way of knowing how long the tentacles were, but, judg- 

 ing from the size of the body, the arms must have been of enormous 

 length. DE WITT WEBB, M. D., St. Augustine, Fla. 



ARMATURE OF HELICOID LAND SHELLS. Under this title Mr. 

 G. K. Gude, of London, is contributing a series of important articles 

 In .v/Vnee Gosxip. The Indian genera CoriUn and Plectopyli* have 

 thus far been discussed, their peculiar internal barriers figured, and 

 the specific characters more fully worked out than in any former 

 publication. In the first paper (September, 1896) a new species of 

 (_\/ri//n, (_'. Fryce Gude is described, and the armature of C. lium- 

 lii'rti Brot for the first time figured. A key to the species of C<>ri//n 

 is given in the second paper; and in the third, which has just ap- 

 peared (November, 1896), the discussion of Plectopylis is com- 

 menced. The work promises to be very valuable to Helicologists, 

 and we hope that Mr. Gude will succeed in procuring a sufficient 

 number of specimens to make it complete. 



SAD DEATH OF AN ORIENTAL BY HALIOTICIDE. In the Novem- 

 ber Popular Science Monthly, Margaret Wentworth Leightou relates 

 that while she was living in San Francisco, " A Chinamen went out 

 on the rocks at low tide to gather some [Haliotis]. As he at- 

 tempted to wrench one from its home his hand was caught between 

 shell and rock, and so firmly held by the animal that he could not 

 escape the rising tide and was drowned." West coast collectors 

 should take warning. Don't fool with Haliotis cracherodii without 

 having by you a crowbar or at least an ax, lest you should perish 

 miserably like this child-like and bland Celestial. 



