THE JOURNAL 



OF MALACOLOGY 



Established in 1890 by Walter E. Colliime as " The Coxciiologist, a Journal of Malacology.' 



EDITED BY 



WILFRED MARK WEBB, F.L.S., 



Technical Laboratories, County of Essex, 



AND 



WALTER E. COLLI NGE, F.Z.S., 



Mason College, Birmingham ; 



WITH THE ASSISTANCE IN SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS OF : 



The Rev. A. H. Cooke, M.A,. F.Z.S. , King's College, Cambridge; 



Lieut. -Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, F.R.S., etc., Hascombe, Godalming ; 



Charles Hedley, F.L.S., Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W. ; 



S. Pace, Royal College of Science, London ; 



E. R. Sykes, B.A., F.Z.S., London; 



B. B. Woodward, F.L.S., F.G.S., British Museum (Natural History). 



Vol. IV. (No. 3.) 



CONTENTS. 



September 30th, 1895. 



" MoUusca of the Oriental Region " 



" Notes on a few of the less-known British 

 Marine Mollusca " 



Current Literature 



Review : Tryon's Manual 



Shells and superstitions 



Importation of foreign land molluscs 



The Toheroa and its enemies . . 



New British marine shells 

 Editors' Notes 



London : 



Notes 



PAGE. 



Charles Hedley, F.L.S. 53 



George W. Chaster, F.R.C.S. 56 



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 E. R. S. 60 

 . . J. Jennings 67 

 Frank Hughes 67 

 Samuel Webb 67 

 J. T. Marshall 67 

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