228 Qua>te?-Iy foiirnal of Ccnchology, 



Baudon. — Monographie des Suca'nccs fran^aises ( Mono- 

 graph of the French Succinex) pp. 57 — 6g. 



In this first part of his monograph Dr. Baudon gives some 

 general observations on the genus, its history, characters,the habits 

 of the mollusks, the geographical distribution of the French 

 species, &c. He speaks of their great power of enduring cold, 

 some specimens of .S. piitris having suffered no injury from an 

 imprisonment of several months in a flask lined inside with ice. 

 He then gives a list of the spjcies, 10 in number, respecting which 

 we would remark that Sue. Pfcijerl and elegans are usually con- 

 sidered synonymous, that S. paniila does not appear in Kobelt's 

 Catalogue, (possibly it- is anew species, but as no authors names 

 are added to any of the species it is difficult to say). S. Baiidoni 

 is, according to Moquin-Tandon, a van of ^. areiiaria and a 

 "species dubice" of Kcbelt. .S. ^^7-^?;/M7(7 is not in Kobelt, we 

 suspect it is one of Bourguignat's species. ^. dcbilis is placed by 

 Kobelt among the " species dubiaj," but is probably good, and 

 S. hiiiail/s is, according to Moquin-Tandon, as well as to Kobelt, 

 only a var. of S. obloir^a. This would reduce the number of 

 species nearly to Moquin-Tandon's original 5, ^. dcbilis being, we 

 very much suspect, the only real addition, but the continuation of 

 the article must be awaited before pronouncing a final opinion. 

 We must, however, confess to very Herodian proclivities as to 

 iAU'opean species especially, and we highly approve of the mas- 

 sacre of the innocents which has been going on at the hands of 

 Dr. Kobelt for the last iaw vears. 



Crosse and Fischer. — Note sur le nouveau genre Aaop- 

 tycliia de Madagascar — (Note on the genus Acioptychia from 

 Madagascar), p. 70. 



In conse]uence of the name E:.'pfy:hij given by MM. Crosse 



