62 CURRENT LITERATURE, 



partly exposed by an orifice in the mnntle: the type is PL amcricanus, Verrill. 

 Plcurolranchus scutatiis, Martens non Pease, is re-named P. viartensi. British 

 collectors will not be gratified to lind that the specific name tubcrculatus, 

 Meckel (i8oS), is used, apparently quite correctly, for the shell they know as 

 Pleurobr. mcmbraiiaceus, Mont. (iSii). Ncda, H. & A. Ad. non Mulsant, is re- 

 named Eusclcnops. An introductory classificatory note is given, in which 

 the Cephalaspidea are divided into groups by the presence or absence of 

 an operculum, and by the radula. Finally, an appendix to vol. xv.— we 

 would we could write vols, i.-xv.— is given: in this, AUciilastruin is a new 

 name for Alicula, Ehrbg. non Eichwald, and the Tectibranchiate monograph 

 is carried up to 1S96, thus concluding the first Marine series. We hope 

 shortly to welcome the opening pa^rts of another series on the Marine 

 bivahes, and trust they will be even more brilliantly executed. 



In the Land series, Mr. Pilsbry continues his study of the Bulimuli of 

 the sub-genus Bostiyx. Four new species are described, namely : -B. 

 mctamorplnis, from Chili ; B. ccroplasta and B. flagdhitus, from Balsas, Peru ; 

 B. vcniancnsis, from Argentina. New names are B. siibcactonim (= lichcncrum, 

 Reeve nvn D'Orb.), B. raimondianus (= spvctus, Phil, non Rve.), B. dcndritoidcs 

 (= nwnticola, Phil, non Roth.). An appendix to the volume is also given. 



Ponsonby, see Melvill. 



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

 novarum ex insulis Philippinis." Nach. Malak. Ges., 1896, Si-93. 

 Thirty-one new species, all unfigured and but curtly described. 



Rolle, Hermann. — " Ein neues Cardium von der Nord-Japanischen Kiiste." 

 Nach. Malak. Ges., i8g6, 113-5, plate. 



Rolle, H. — " Diognose (sic) eines neuer Buccinuni." Nach. Malak. Ges., 

 1896, 128. 

 B inartcnsianum, from Japan. 



Simpson, C. T. — " Notes on the parvus group of Unionidae and its allies." 

 Nautilus, X., 57-9. 



Smith, E. A. — "Natural History Notes from H.M. Indian Marine Survey 



Steamer ' Investigator,' Com. C. F. Oldham, R.N. — series ii., no. 22. 



Descriptions of new Deep-sea Mollusca." Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., scr. 6, 



xviii., 3C7-375. 



New species of Plcurotcma 4, Natica 2, Dcntalinin i, Cardiinn i, Yoldia i, 



Ciispidan'a i, Myoncia i, Lycnsia i, and Scrcbiciihirhi i : with critical notes on 



other species. 



Sterki, Dr. V. — " Two new Pisidia." Nautilus, x., G4-S. 



Two more species added to the already ;ome\\hat swollen list of North 

 American shells. 



Sykes, E. R. — "On FhunmuUna (AUcdiscus) chion,a new Helicoid Laud-shell 

 from New Zealand. " 1'. Malac. Soc, ii., 107, figs. 



Sykes, E. R. — "Preliminary diagnoses of new species of non-marine 



Mollusca from the Hawaiian Islands. Part I." P. Malac. Soc, ii., 



126-132. 



The following are described as new : — Macicchlamys i, Endodcnta 2, Lepta- 



chatina 4. Amastra 4, Ncn'ccmbia i. The author discusses the genera Micyocystis 



and Macivchlatnys and their t3'pes. 



Wagner, Dr. A. J. — " Die Arten des genus Daiidcbardui, Hartmann, in 



Europa und Westasien." Denksch Akad. Wiss. Wien., Ixii., 609-626, 



5 plates. 



Though reprints of this paper ha\e been issued for some time, the volume 



containing it has only recently n:adc its appeararce. The autl.or divides 



Davdcbcrdiii into four sections : Rif.na, CIcesiu ; Libania, Brgt. (to which he 



adds a new species from Transcaucasia) ; Catpathica, nov. sect, (type D. kima- 



koiiiczi, n. sp., from Siebenburgen) ; and Il'.yrica, nov. sect, (type D. stussincri, 



n. sp., from Croatia). Excellent figures of anatomy and shells are given. 



