THE NAUTILUS. 71 



like var. complanata but the sculpture is like trldentata. My largest 

 shell, the dead one, is 2(H mm. diam. I thought at first they wen- 

 complanata but on comparing with typical shells from Burnside, Ky., 

 collected by Sargent, I saw the difference. Geo. H. Clavj>. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



NOTES ON THE MOLLUSCA OK THE ARABIAN SEA, PERSIAN 

 GULF, AND GULF OF OMAN, mostly dredged by Mr. B. W. Townseud, 

 with descriptions of twenty-seven species by Jas. Cosmo Melvill. 

 Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist. ser. 7, Vol. iv. pp. 81-01 pis. i, ii. 

 Aug. 1899. 



REPORT ON THE MARINE MOLLUSCA OBTAINED DURING THE 

 FIRST EXPEDITION OF PROF. A. C. HADDON TO THE TORRES 

 STRAITS in 1888-89. By Jas. Cosmo Melvill, and Robt. Standen. 

 Linn. Soc. Journ. Zool, Vol. xxvii, pp. 150-20(3, pis. 10, 11, 1899. 



Review of the work done in that region with a list of the collect- 

 ing stations of Prof. Haddon is followed by a catalogue of the species. 

 4-19 species are recorded, including 24 that are new. One new genus 

 of Neritidoi, Mayadis, and a new subgenus of Pholadotya Sowb., 

 Pariliinya, are described. The paper closes with some very interest- 

 ing remarks on the few recent species of Pholadoniya. C. W. J. 



WEST AMERICAN EULIMID.E, By Edw. G. Vanatta. Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. 1899, pp. 254-257, pi. xi. Three new species are described 

 and Eulima compacta Cpr., E. micans " Cpr." Reeve, and E, rutilix 

 Cpr. are redescribed and figured. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 

 Vol. Ill, no. 5, July, 1899. Lieut-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen deliv- 

 livered the Presidential Address on February 10 on the subject of 

 Indian malacology, a field which he has made peculiarly his own. 

 The address begins with an interesting sketch of the workers on In- 

 dian mollusks, and continues with a review of the progress and pre- 

 sent state of our knowledge of the most prominent and characteristic 

 forms of the mollusk life of India. Particularly interesting are the 

 paragraphs upon Camptoccras and the Zonitidce. The development 

 of the latter group in India is enormous in number of genera and 

 species, and remarkable in the series of forms leading to slug-like 

 genera such as Girasia. And as it is to Godwin-Austen himself that 



