iC CURRENt LITERATURE. 



This is nothing more than the var. lamarckii, Kal., 1851, of A. cmpincorum, 

 Fer. Mr. Adams seems to like setting the law of priority at defiance. 



Andre, E. — Organes de defense tegumentaires chez le Zonites ( Hyalinia) cellarius, 

 Cray. Zool. Anz., 1S98, pp. 436-38. 



Andre, E. — La fossette triangulaire caudate des Arions. Rev. Suis.se de Zool., 

 1898, T. 5, pp. 179-S1, fig. I. 



[Anon.] — Slugs. Nat. Science, 1898, vol. .\iii, pp. 83-85. 



A carefully written review of recent papers by W. E. Collinge. Malacology 

 would make greater headway if all differences of opinion were as courteously ex- 

 pressed as here. 



Burton, F. M. — 7V.f/a<Y//rt/ia//W/V/^a at Gainsborough. Nat., 1898, p. 320. 



Coekerell, T. D. A. — Revision of the North American Slugs. Naut. , 1898, 

 pp. 47-48. 

 A short review of Messrs. Pilsbry and \'analla's paper. 



Collinge, Walter E. — Note on a new variety of TestaccUa iiiaii^ci, Fer. Journ. 

 Conch., 1S98, vol. i.\, p. 95. 



" Var. nov. nigra, whole of body, fool-fringe, and foot-sole a deep black. Loc. 

 Tenby, 1892 (A. H. Cooke), (Mus. Zool. Univ. Camb.). 



Dall, W. H. — Note on the Anatomy of Resania, Gray, and Zeiia'ia, Gray. Proc. 



Malac. Soc. Lond., 1898, vol. iii, pp. 85-S6. 

 Godwin-Austen, H. H. — On P/iilalanka, a new sub-genus of Eiidodoii/a, with 



descriptions of two new species from the Indian region. Ibid., pp. 11-13, 



pi. I. 

 The new species are P. secessa and P. Iwlantpattcetisis. 



Goodrich, E. S. — On the Reno-pericardial Canals in Patella. Quart. Journ. 

 Micro. Sci., 1898, vol. xli, pp. 323-28, pi. 24. 



After reviewing the work of previous writers the author describes the results 

 obtained from an examination of a complete series of transverse sections, which 

 show that in P. vulqa/a and P. nenilca " there are two reno-pericardial canals, 

 opening by means of projecting ciliated funnels from the pericardium into the rigiit 

 and left kidneys respectively." 



Hedley, C. — Further notes on Australasian Shipworms. IVoc. Linn. Soc, 

 N.S.W., 1898, pp. 91-96, figs. 1-9. 



A new freshwater species is described and illustrated, under the name of Calobatcs 

 Jluviatilis (Coll. of Aust. Mus.). C. saulii, Wright, is also dealt with, and there 

 are some critical remarks on the generic status of these forms. 



Hedley, C. — Descriptions of new Mollusca, chiefly from New Caledonia. Ibid., 

 1898, pp. 97-105, figs. 1-12. 



The author describes a remarkable new species of Placoslylus (P. remotus ) 

 from Dr. Cox's collection, abberrant both structurally and geographically, with some 

 further observations on the range of the genus. The following new species are also 

 described : Ischnochiton araucariaiiiis, Teinostoma oppletuiii, Diploinniatina obesa, 

 Pissoiiia aiigiista, all in the colleclif)n of the Australian Museum. 



Hedley, C. — Description of a new Bivalve, Lima alata, from Santa Cruz. 

 Records Aust. Mus., 1898, vol. iii, pp. 84-85, fig. 



Heynemann, D. F. — Zur Geschichte der Gatturgen AspiJoporus, Fitzinger. 

 Nachr. d. d. Malak. Gesell, 1898, pp. 108-II. 



Joubin, L. — Note sur une nouvelle famille de Cephalopodes. Ann. de Sci. 

 Nat., 1898 (ser. 8), T. vi, pp. 279-92, figs. 1-9. 



