EDITORS NOTES. 



PAL/EONTOLOGY. 



Pliocene and Quaternary Molluscan Fauna of Oran. (Asso. Franc, pour 

 l'avance. d. Sci., 20th Sess., p. 383, 1891.) Paul Pallary. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Some Remarks on New Jersey Coast Shells. (Nautilus, p. 25, 1892.) 

 John Ford. 



Notes on the North American Species of Succinea. (Naut., p. 29, 1892.) 

 T. D. A. Cockerell. 



On the European Species of Pectunculus. (II Nat. Siciliano, p. 143, 

 1892.) Marchese di Monterosato. 



NOTES. 



New Varieties of Californian Slugs, By T. D. A. Cockerell. F.Z.S., 

 F.E.S., Curator of the Museum of the Institute of Jamaica, Kingston. 

 (I.) Prophysaon andersoni, var. marmoratum. Mantle dark; marbled at 

 sides, not banded. Body whitish, darker on back ; reticulations 

 marked in grey ; back with a pale line. 

 This form is figured in 3rd Suppl. Terr. Moll. U.S.A., and is known by 

 its dark, marbled mantle. It was found by Dr. Cooper at Haywards, 

 California. 

 (2.) Agriolimax campestris, var. zonatipes. Blackish-brown, except the paler 

 sides below mantle ; sole with the central area pale and the lateral 

 ones black or blackish, in striking contrast. 

 Lake Merced, San Francisco Co., California (Raymond). The names, 

 without descriptions, of both of these have been already published, the 

 first in Nautilus, 1891, p. 94, the second in the same journal, 1891, 

 p. 56. 



Pleurophyllidia loveni in Britain. By F. G. Greisbach, Berlin. 



I have read with interest Prof. M'Intosh's note on the occurrence of this rare 

 Mollusc in Britain, and I should be glad to learn if any comparisons have been 

 made of the marine mollusca of Scotland and those of S.W. Norway and Sweden. 

 Scharff, in his recent work on the slugs of Ireland, mentions that the species 

 there are almost identical with those on the continent, both externally and 

 anatomically, but I find no reference to the anatomy by any of the authors cited 

 by Prof. MTntosh. I would point out that an important omission from the 

 above-mentioned note is the record given by Messrs. Leslie and Herdman of an 

 example of P. loveni taken off Dunbar, vide their " Fauna of the Firth of 

 Forth," 1SS1. 



EDITOR'S NOTES. 



Mr. E. W. Swanton, of Sittingbourne, Doddington, Kent, requests that any 

 conchologists who have not, as yet, communicated with him re the Somersetshire 

 Conchological Society, will kindly do so as early as possible. 



We invite the assistance of Malacologists in the following departments : — 

 Fossil Mollusca and Cephalapoda. 



Owing to the large number of original papers that at present are awaiting 

 publication, we have decided to omit for the present " Societies' Proceedings," 

 and the County Bibliographies. 



