^■^ Quarterly Journal of Conchology. 



Nouvelle Caledonie (Description of a Stomatella from New Caledonia), 



S. granosa, Lambert. 



Gassies (Dr. J. B.)— Descriptions d'e,speces nouvelles terrestres, 

 et fluvio-lacustres de la Nouvelle Caledonia (Description of new land 

 and freshwater shells from New Caledonia), pp. 375—387. 

 Succinea calcarea^ Gas. J. of Art. 

 Resembles S. elongata Drap. 



Helix I'll fotincta, G., Bourail, near //. Cuteolina ■ H. inculta, G 

 Baie du Slid, near //. Calliope, Cr.; Fhysa incisa, G., Bourail; P 

 doholum G., Ouagap, Bourail, andBonde; Melanopsis fasciata.Gc', 

 Nekete, belonging to the group of M. variegata, Mor.; 31. fraqilis 

 G., Ouagap somewhat like M. Mariei, Crosse ;M. aiirantiam, g' 

 Bourail and Nekete, related to M. Maroccana, Chemn. ; M. elongata, 

 G.. Bourail ; M. Brotiana^ G., near Noumea. 



H Crosse.— Descriptions d'especes de Mollusques inklites, prove- 

 nant de la Nouvelle Caledonie (descriptions of unpublished si^ecies 



ot Mollusca from >,ew Caledonia), pp. 387 396. 



Diplomphalus- Mariei, Cr., var. (Beta) (PI. xii. ficr I) Baie du 

 Sud; D. Vaysseti, Marie (Pl.xii. f. \). iLe are two siLfes of 1 

 curious group of Helices, which are concave both above and beneath 

 Hehx Prevostmna, Gv.{V\. xii. f. 3), Baie du Sud ; H. corymhm, 

 br. (PI. xii. i. 4), near Noumea; Pupa Paitensis, Cr. (PI xii f 5) 

 Paita, the first sinistral Pupa discovered in New Caledonia;/' 

 Fabreana Cr {PI. xii. f. 6) near Noum6a, also sinistral ; Tornatellina 

 Mariei, Cr^ (Pi. xu. f. 7), Baie du Sud ; Blplor^imatina Perroquini, 

 Cr., var. (Beta), Baie du Sud; D. Montrouzieri, Cr. (PI xii f. 8) 

 BaieduSucl^ near D. Perroquini ; Hydrohia Gentilsiana, Cr. (PI." xii' 

 I. y), near Ponebo. ^ 



Bibliography, Notes, Index, &c., pp 396—423. M. Crosse men- 

 tions in the Notes that Professor Deshayes has finished the arrano-e- 

 ment ol the very fine series of the genus Turbo, 67 species and 1142 

 specimens, m the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes ; and that a 

 number of Mollusca collected by the late expedition to Tonquin have 

 been received. Amongst these are some Paludinidcs of most peculiar 

 iorms resemblmg Natica and AmpuUaria, and even Nematura. 



We cannot close this notice mthout calling attention to the great 

 zeal displayed by the French naturalists in the exploration of their 

 colony of New Caledonia, every volume of the Journal containing 

 numerous articles on the subject, the efforts of the resident naturaf- 

 ists Lambert, Marie, Montrouzier, &c., having been ably seconded 

 by Crosse, Gassies, Souverbie, and others in the mother country and 

 we would express a hope that, now we have obtained iiossession of 

 the neighbouring Archipelago of the Fijis, we may endeavour to 

 irnitate the excellent example of our neighbours on the other side of 

 the Channel. It will be a dire reproach to us if the mollusca of the 

 British possession should continue to be known only by the researches 

 oi the American Gould, and by those of the German Graeffe worked 

 up by the Swiss Mousson.— C.P.G. 



