256 AMERICAN JOURNAL 



Shells collected at Santa Barbara by W. Newcomb, M.I). 

 in January, 1867. By Robt. E. C. Stearns. 



List of Shells collected at Purissima and Lobitas, Cali- 

 . fornia, Oct., 1866. By Robt. E. C. Stearns. 



Description of a New Species of Pisidium. By J. Rowell. 



Pisidium angelicum, Rowell. — Angel Isl'd. 



Part v, 1868. 



List of Shells collected at Bodega Bay, California, June, 

 1867. By Robt. E. C. Stearns. 



Shells collected by the U. S. Coast Survey Expedition to 

 Alaska, in the year 1867. By Robt. E. C. Stearns. 



II.— FOREIGN. 



ENGLISH. 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society. Part 3. May— Dec, London, 

 1867. 



On some New Species of Australian Land Shells. By 

 James C. Cox, M. D. 



Helix lamproides, Helix turriculata, 

 " Hamiltoni, " avidorum, 



" Diemenensis, " marcescens, 



" Wellingtonensis, " pachystyloides, 



" Albanensis, ' " mucosa, 



" Penolensis, " pexa. 



Notes on the specimens of Calyptroeidoe in Mr. Cuming's 

 Collection. By Dr. J. E. Gray. 



The author's preliminary observations on the condition of this 

 celebrated collection, are so important that our Publication Com- 

 mittee have thought proper to reprint them in this Journal. 



Trochita spirata, Forbes, is made a synonym of T. radians, 

 Desh. 



Clypeola, N. Gen. C. Magellanica for Trochita clypeolum, 

 Reeve. If the genus is adopted, in our opinion the species must 

 be known as C. clypeolum, and justice, whose mandates form a 

 "higher law " to which the contrary rules of all human tribu- 

 nals must sooner or later succumb, requires that if this repetition 

 is unpalatable then the generic name must be changed ; no one 



