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Hedley, C. — studies on Australian Mollusca. Pt. viii. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1904, 

 pp. 182 — 211. pis. viii — X. 

 The author ponits out that the Coxiella confiisa, Smith, is the same as C. badgerensis 

 (Johnst.) which latter name has priority, and that the Bythinia ricliiiioiidiaiia, Petterd, 

 must yeild to the prior Hydrobia pclkrdi, Smith. To the same species is referred the 

 Pupa anodoiila of Musson and Hedley. Descriptions and figures of fourteen new 

 species are given and one new genus Stiva, allied to R/ssoina (type S. fcrnigijiea, n. sp.), 

 in addition to wliich many species are figured for the first time. Liitia sydneyensis is 

 a new name for L. briniiwa, Hedley non Cooke. 



Smith, Edgar A.— Note on Tcrcbm licdicyi, Tate. Ibid., pp. 211, 212. 



Mv. Smith points out that this is not a Tcrcbm. The late Professor Tate stated 

 that Cinguliiia brazieri, Angas, belonged to the genus Tcrcbra and as tiie species-name 

 was already in use in the latter genus, he changed it to hcdlcvi. 



The author adds that he very much doubts whether this so-called species is any- 

 thing mere than a variety of C. circhiata, A. Adams. 



Roebuck, W. D. — Re-establishment of Liiiiax tcticUiis as a British species. Journ. 

 Conch., 1904, vol. ii, pp. 106 — 109. 

 All malacologists who take any interest in tlie Slug fauna of the British Isles will 

 be pleased to learn that the author has satisfactorily established this slug as a member 

 of our fauna. From the pine-woods of the Poorest of Rothiemurchus, in the Vice- 

 county of Easterness many examples have been received, also from Clackmannshire, 

 about Inver, near Dunkeld, Perthshire, and Invercannie, near Banchory, Kincardine- 

 shire. 



Hoyle, William E.— Report on the Cephalopoda. F"rom Rpt. on Pearl Oyster 



Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. Roy. Soc. Lond., 1904. 



The collection of Cephalopoda obtained by Prof. Herdman, though small, con- 

 tains several novelties. The Octopods preponderate, and many are immature. 



The new species are Polypus licrdiiiani and P. arborcscciis. In this latter the sur- 

 face presents a number of branched papillae ; there are one or two over each eye, 

 about a dozen on the back, a few on the ventral surface, and in most cases one or two 

 on the outer aspect of each arm. The nature of these bodies is, as yet, very obscure. 

 The possibility of their being either glandular or phosphorescent seems to be excluded 

 by the fact that the fibrils come up to and give off a radiating tuft, whilst against a 

 sensory function is urged the fact of the fusion of their lower portion with the sur- 

 rounding tissues, and as yet no nerves have been traced to them. Possible, although 

 it seems very doubtful, they may be parasitic. 



BartSCh, Paul. — Notes on the genus Soiwrclla, with descriptions of new species. 

 Smiths. Miscell. Coll., J 904, vol. 47, pp. 187 — 200, pis. xxviii — xxxiii. 



The author finds that a careful examination of the nuclear whorls shows varations 

 along several lines, and these may be utilised in grouping the species. Upon these 

 varations he divides the genus up into four groups, viz., i. Group of S. wolcottiana, 

 ii. Groupof S. Iiacln'taiia, iii. Group of S. luagdalcnsis, and iv. Group of S. Hslieri. 



In the second group S. asliiiniiii, S. iiclsoni, S. goldiiiani, S. incrrilli, S. dalli, S. 

 mcarnsi, and S. baileyi are new species, with a new subspecies of the latter, orctitti. 

 In the fourth group S.fislicri is also new. 



All the species are well illustrated. 



BartSCh, Paul. — A new species of AiiipJiidroiiiiis. Ibid., pp. 292, 293, pi. xlvi. 

 A gossi, n. sp., from Mount Kin Raloo, North Borneo, 13,000 feet. 



