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issued separately as one of the Manchester Museum handbooks, under the 

 title of the "Catalogue of the Hadfield Collection of Shells from Loyalty 

 Islands," Manchester, 1895 (price is.). 



Milne, J. N. — "Helix arbustorum in Armagh." Irish Nat., vol. iv., p. 348. ^ 



Pilsbry, Henry A. — "Catalogue of the IMarine Mollusks of Japan, with 

 descriptions of new species and notes on others collected by Frederick 

 Stearns." Pub. by F. Stearns, Detroit, 8™- pp. i.-viii., 1-196, pis. i.-xi., 

 Oct., 1895. 

 The Marine MoUuscan Fauna of the Japanese Seas has been studied by 

 many writers, notably Dunker, Lischke and von Schrenck, and we have now 

 to welcome a work by Mr. Pilsbry. Naturally, as being the latest, this is by 

 far the most complete, containing, as the author remarks, " about 500 species 

 more than Dunker's Index, although a considerable number of forms enumer- 

 ated by him are herein considered synonyms, or are rejected from the Japanese 

 list." The book is far more than a bare catalogue of species ; it contains 

 much original work, such as the study of Umbonium and the limpets, the 

 placing of Fissuridca under the EmarginuUiiac, the use of such names as Macro- 

 schisina macvoschisina, &c. Various new species are described, amongst them 

 Sepia hercules, which contains a shell nearly 17 inches long. There is one 

 point to which we must take objection, namely, the describing of species 

 (e.g., Clausilia stcanisii) without any note that the descriptions have already 

 been published. Both the author and publisher are to be congratulated on 

 the general " get-up " of the book and on the lithographic plates. E.R.S. 



Pritchard, G. B. — " Marine dredging excursion." The Victorian Naturalist, 

 vol. xii., July, 1895, p. 40. 

 Notes on mollusca in Port Phillip. 



Quadras, J. F., and Moellendorff, O. F. von. — " Diagnoses specierum 

 novarum ex insulis Philippinis." Nach. Mai. Ges., 1895, pp. 137-153. 



Scharff, R. F. — "An addition to the Irish moUuscan fauna." Irish Nat., 

 vol. iv., p. 335, fig. 

 The somewhat doubtful new species, Pisidiiim hibernicum, Westerlund. 



Service, Robert.— " The shell slug in Scotland." Zoologist, vol. xix., p. 436. 

 Tcstiicclla luiliotidea found in Sang's nursery in Kirkcaldy. 



Smith, Edgar A. — " Report on the land and fresh-water shells collected by 

 Mr. Herbert H. Smith at St. Vincent, Grenada, and other neighbouring 

 islands." Proc. Malac. Soc, vol. i., 1895, pp. 300-322, pi. xxi. 



Smith, Edgar A. — " On a small collection of land-shells from Central 

 Africa." Proc. Malac. Soc, vol. i., 1895, pp. 323-328, figs. 



Standen, R. — " Report of the Galway Conference and e.xcursion of the Irish 

 Field Club Union, 1895. Mollusca." Irish Nat., vol. iv., pp. 264-270. 



Stossich, Prof. Adolpho. — " Molluschi osservati e raccolti fra la Alpi 

 Venete." Boll. Soc. Adriat. Sci. Nat., xvi., pp. 197-210. 

 A very useful faunal catalogue. 



Swanton, E. W. — "Notes on British land and fresh-water shells." Nat. 

 Journ., vol. iv., pp. 260-1. 



Tomlin, B. — " Spirula peronii in co. Antrim." — Irish Nat., vol. iv., p. 348. 



Travers, W. T. L. — " Notes on the larger species of Paiyphanta in New 

 Zealand, with some remarks on the distribution and dispersal of land- 

 shells." Trans. N. Z. Inst., 1894, xxvii., pp. 224-228. 



Ulicny, Josef. — " Einige neue formen der mollusken fauna von Bohmen." 



Verh. Nat. Ver. Briinn., Bnd. xxxiii., pp. 107-8. 

 Walker, Bryant. — " Review of our present knowledge of the moUuscan 



fauna of Michigan." Detroit, 1895, 27 pp., 8™- 

 Warren, Amy. — " Lepton syhesii, Chaster, in Killala Bay." Irish Nat. 



vol. iv., p. 348. 



