THE NAUTILUS. 
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listed in the current number of the Journal de Conchyliologie. 
The external features as well as the dentition differ very widely 
from Pleurotomaria, the teeth being as in Trochidce. 
In Abstr. Proe. Linn, Soc. N. S. Wales, meeting of Sept. 26, 
1894, Mr. John Brazier retracts his former opinion that Patella 
Jcermadecensis is not from the Kermadec group, and quotes from a 
pamphlet published in 1887, stating that on Macauley Island there 
occur “ large limpets (as big as small saucers and good eating).” 
The last number of the Journal de Conchyliologie contains a 
portrait and biographical sketch of Dr. Paul Fischer. 
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
On a Molluscan Genus new to, anti another forgotten 
from Australia, By Charles Hedley (Proc. Roy. Soc. Viet., 
1894). — Lucapinella is identified from Australia with two species, 
nigrita Sowb. and pritchardi Hedley. Scyllcea pelagica, recorded by 
Cuvier from W. Australia years ago, has lately been collected at 
Port Philip by Mr. J. B. Wilson. 
Description d’un Heliceen nouveau provenant de la cote occi- 
dentale du Maroc, par Ph. Dautzenberg (Bull. Soc. Zool. de Fr. 
1894, p. 17).— Helix ( Jacosta ) Renati is described and figured. We 
cannot distinguish it from H. argonautula Webb & Berth., a spe¬ 
cies referred by European authors to Oclithephila or Discula, but 
really belonging to Jacosta. 
The Land and Freshwater Moll., New Philadelphia, O., 
by Dr. V. Sterki.—A list freely annotated with Dr. Sterki’s habit¬ 
ual critical acumen recording 151 species. The new forms 
described are Pupa eurvidens var. gracilis, “ intermediate in shape 
between the type and P. holzingeri; ” P. pentodon f. curta ; Vertigo 
ventricosa v. elatior; Planorbis exacutus var. rubellus. Gundlachia 
is reported, and two Pisidia described in the preceding pages are 
noticed. 
