8o CURRENT LITERATURE. 



Woodward, Martin F.— " Note on the anatomy of the larva of the European 

 oyster, Ostiea ediiUs, Linn." Proc. Mai. Soc, vol. i., 1895, pp. 297-299, 



pi. XX. 



See ante, p. 51. My specimens in very few cases showed the alimentary 

 canal, and it was for this reason that help was sought from those belonging to 

 the Royal College of Science, in order to locate the structure presumed to^ be 

 the " posterior adductor " muscle. W. M. W. 



PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOLOGY. 



Baring, Hon. Cecil, and Grant, W. R. Ogilvie.— "An expedition to the 

 Salvage Islands " (from "The Field" of Sept. 21st and 28th, 1895). 

 Z06I., ser. 3, vol. xix., 1895, MoUusca, pp. 403-404. 

 Seven shells of Helix pisiuia found in the stomach of a kestrel. Helix 



pauperciihi apparently forms the chief food of a tarantula (Ljrosa maderiana). 



Bowell, E. W. W., and Bazeley, E. H.— " On Banded Snails," Devonia, 

 vol. i., part I, Oct. 1895, pp. 17-21, figs. 



Carazzi, D. — " Green Oysters." Nature, vol. lii., p. 643. 



Herdman, W. A. — Presidential Address to the Zoological Section of the 

 British Association, 1895. 



Kofoid, C. A.— "On the early development of Liiiiax." Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Z06I., vol. xxvii., no. 2, pp. 35-118, pis. i.-viii. 



Leighton, T. — " Notes on two cases of transport and survival of terrestrial 

 moUusca in the New Forest." Proc. Mai. Soc, vol. i., 1895, p. 296. 



Letellier, A. — " Une action purement mecanique permit d' expliquer com- 

 ment les Clioitcs creusent leurs galeries dans les valves des huitres." 

 Bull. Soc. Linn. Normandie, ser. 4, tome viii., pp. 149-166. 



Mosley, S. L. — " Boring shells and other animals." Nat. Journ., vol. iv., 



pp. 257-259. 

 Simroth, Dr. H. — " Die Gastropoden der Plankton Expedition." Kiel and 



Liepzig, 1895, pp. 1-206, pis. xx., figs. 

 Relates to embryonic shells, most of which the author is unable to 

 identify with certainty. 

 Webb, Wilfred Mark. — " Protective colouration in British Clausilias. " 



Sci. Goss., new series, vol. ii., Dec, 1895. 



FAUNA. 



Allen, E. J. — " Faunistic Notes : January to June, 1895." Journ. Mar. Biol. 



Assn., vol. iv., pp. 48-52. MoUusca at p. 51. 

 Anon.—" By the way." Devonia, vol. i., part ii., p. 56. 

 Anon. — " Large Dreissena polymorpha ." Nat. Journ., vol. iv., p. 206. 



Bendall, Wilfred. — "A list of the land mollusca of the island of New 

 Providence, Bahamas, with an enumeration of the species recorded 

 from the other islands." Proc. Mai. Soc, vol. i., 1895, pp. 292-295. 



B[owell], E. W. W. — " Occurrence oi Hclicella fusca, Mont, (near Bampton, 

 N. Devon)." Devonia, vol. i., part ii., p. 49. 



Butterell, J. Darker. — " Tectum testudinalis on the Yorkshire Coast." 



Natural., No. 245, Dec, p. 346. 

 CoUinge, Walter E. — " Notes on some slugs from Algiers." Proc. Mai. 



Soc., vol. i., 1895, pp. 336-337, pi. xxiii. 

 Amalia ater and A, imculata, new species. 



