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cliaracterizefl under the names of Qonralla, Coidliouyla^ Cltlini, 

 Gottoina. To these, M, Fischer proposes to add Ariadna, 

 the type of which is Trichotropis horealis. 



We are indebted to Mr. Arthur Adams for a very harge in- 

 crease in the number of described species of Fossarus. His 

 monograph of the genus, published in the Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society, 1853, contained nine species, five of which 

 were then first described. In 1863 he added about twenty 

 additional species from the seas of China and Japan. Messrs. 

 C. B. Adams and P. P. Carpenter have described most of the 

 American sjDecies. 



The list, as now given by M. Fischer, embraces forty-four 

 recent and four fossil species, with their synonymy and geo- 

 graphical distribution. Of the living forms, more than lialf 

 belong to the Japanese fauna, five to the Mediterranean and 

 west coast of Africa, two to the West Indies, and nine to Ma- 

 zatlan and Panama. 



Descriptions cVespeces nouvelles de TArch.ipel Caledonien: 

 BY M. SOUVERBIE and R. P. MONTROUZIER. 

 Marinula Forestieri, Montr. Columhella sublaevis, Montr. 

 Turbo naninus, Souv. " articulata, Souv. 



Pleurotoma apicidata, Montr. Nassa tringa, Souv. 

 Pisania Billeheusti, Petit. " acuticoata, Montr. 



var. P. Artensis. 

 Fusus Desmoulinsi, Montr. 



Description d^especes nouvelles de VAustralie meridionale : 



BY H. CROSSE. 



Buccinuvi Angasi. Buccinum Adelaidense. 



Trophon Paivse. 



Description dhme espece nouvelle: by h. caillet. 



Columhella Saint Pairiana. Marie Galante, Antilles. 



Diagnoses de Mollusques terrestres noveaux: by. n. crosse. 



Helix Lienardiana, Salomon's Isle. 



" Hidalgoiana, Oceauica. Helix Mahillei, Oceanica. 

 " Primeana, China. 

 " Bocageana, China. 

 " Cailleti, Oceanica. 



Description de Coquilles inedites : by a. morelet. 



Bidimus ingenuus, Isle Mayotte. 

 " spinula, Gaboon River. 

 Melania psorica, Madagascar. 



" soriculata, Grand Bassam. 

 NeiHtina cristata, Gaboon River. 

 Paludomus ci/anostomus, Siam. 

 Ujiio Massini, Cochin China. 



