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DALL, William Healey — Continued. 



following new group-nanaes are proposed: 

 Craspedotriton (coniolutus Bred.); Marsu- 

 pina (crassa Dilhvyu); Chaamotheca {foliata 

 Broderip), in the Ranellidse; and in the Sep- 

 tidfe: Eugyrina (new name for Gt/rina Schu- 

 macher); Paralagena (for Lagcna Morch); 

 Tritonocauda (caudatus Gmelin): Turritriton 

 (gibbosus Broderip): Tritoniscm (loroisii 

 Petit); and in theColiibrariidfe: Maculotriton 

 (bracteatus Hinds); \fonostiolum (swiftii 

 Tryon); Caducifer (truncalus Hinds~i; Tfeni- 

 oln (decollatus Sowerby), and Phrygiomurex 

 (sculplilis Reeve). 



Note on Luciita {Miltha) cMldreni 



Gray, and on a new species from the Gulf 

 of California. 



Nautilus, xvni, No. 10, Feb.. 1905, pp. 

 110-112. 

 In this note it is shown that L. cMldreni is 

 a Brazilian species exclusively, and for the 

 species of the Gulf of California, wrongly 

 called childreni by Carpenter, the name of L. 

 ( Miltha) xantusi is proposed. The specimens 

 are m the National Museum. 



New species of mollusks from Cali- 

 fornia. 



Nautilus, XVIII, No. 11. Mar., 19(J.t, pp. 

 123-125. 

 The following new species are described: 

 Leda amblia, MangeUa perattrnuata, Admete 

 woodworthi. Erato albescens, and Scissurclla 

 (Schizotrockus) kelseyi, all from Cahfomia. 

 The specimens are in the National collection. 



An arrangement of the American 



Cyclostomatidse with a revision of the 

 nomenclature. 



Proc. Malacolog. Soc. London, \i, March, 

 1905, pp. 203-210. 

 The whole group is reviewed, diagnoses 

 given for the subdivisions, the subgenus Para- 

 chrondria is proposed for Cistula Sowerby, 

 not Say, and the genus Opisthosiphon for 

 Chondropoma bahamensc Shuttleworth and 

 its allies. These are shown to have an acces- 

 sory opening to the whorl in the shape of a 

 small tube behind the posterior angle of- the 

 aperture. The material upon which the con- 

 clusions rest is in the National Museum. 



Report on the land and fresh-water 



shells collected in the Bahamas in 1904 

 by Mr. Owen Bryant and others. 



Smithsonian Misc. Colls.. xLVii, Quar. 



issue, pi. n, pt, 4, April 27, 1905, pp. 



433-452, pis. LViii, lix. 



Mr. Bryant's collection is catalogued, and 



notes and descriptions of some new forms, 



either collected bj' him or from the collection 



of the National Museum are given. The new 



species are as follows: Cepolis smirna, C. 



androsi, Cerion glans obc.mm, Cerion watling- 



ense, C. inconspicuuw , and variety lacu- 



DALL, William Healey — Continued. 



norum, C. canonicum, C. variabile with vari- 

 eties pupilla and Saurodon, C. brunneum, C. 

 plegmatum, C. northropi, C. oweni and varie- 

 ties reticulatum, incisum and vermiculum, 

 Rhytidopoma euploca, and \'cronicella schive- 

 ly:i' var. bahamensis. The new forms are 

 figured, numerous species added to tlie known 

 Bahaman fauna, and the liabit of forming an 

 epiphragm by Planorbis during the dry sea- 

 son, is noted. 



Note on the genus Aporema Dall. 



Nautilus, XVIII, No. 12, April, 1905, p. 143. 

 Aporema proving to be preoccupied in In- 

 sects by Seudder, the new name Panacea is 

 proposed to take its place, witli the same type 

 Pholadomya arata Verrill. 



Note on Trichodina Ancej'. 



Nautilus, XVIII, No. 12, April, 1905, p. 143. 



Trichodina Ancey, 1888, for an Achatinoid 



landshell being preoccupied by Trichodina 



Ehrenberg, 1830, the new name Petriola is 



proposed for the former. 



Fossils of the Bahama Islands, with 



a list of the uonmarine mollusks. 



The Bahama Islands, New York (Mac- 

 millan & Co.), April, 1905, pp. 23-47; pis. 



XI-XIII. 



This paper, also issued separately, treats of 

 the fossils of the Bahamas collected by the ex- 

 pedition sent out by the Geographical Society 

 of Baltimore, giving a list of stations with the 

 fossils collected at each, descriptions of some 

 new landshells, fossil and recent, a catalogue 

 of the nonmarine fauna, fossil and living, a 

 list of the marine fossils obtained, and a short 

 account of the faima of the "salt pans" or 

 lagoons. Some characteristic marine fossils 

 and the new species of landshells are figured. 

 The following are described as new: Cepolis 

 agassizii, C. inaguana var. subandrosi, C. 

 pharcida, Cerion eleutherx var. drupium, 

 Cepolis exumana, C. gregoriana. C. duclosi- 

 ana var. columbiana, and C. inaguana. Pha- 

 coides pensylvanicus L., Codakia orbicularis 

 L., Tellina radiata L.. Area occidentalis Phil- 

 ippi, A. reticulata Gmelin, Cerion agassizii 

 Dall, and Helicina rawsoni Pfeiffer, are also 

 figured. 



Cotypes of the material described are in the 

 National Museum. 



Two undescribed California shells. 



Nautilus, XIX, No. 2, June, 1905, pp. 14, 15. 

 Murex (Phyllonotu.s) santarosana and Al- 

 aba oldroydi from southern California are de- 

 scribed as new, the types being in the National 

 Museum. 



WHITE, Charles A. The ancestral origin 

 of the North American Unionidse, or fresh- 

 water mussels. 



Smithsonian ^fisc. CoZZs., xlviii, Quar. 

 issue, pt. 1, 1905, pp. 75-88, pis. 26-31. 



