88 Qiiai'terly Journal of Conchology. 



A note from Lieut.-Col. R. H. Beddome, on some new oper- 

 culated land-shells from Southern India and Ceylon, was laid 

 before the Zoological Society at its meeting on June ist. The 

 discoveries of true Dipplomatiiia in Southern India, and of Nicida 

 in Ceylon were alluded to as being of special interest. 



At the same meeting a communication from Mr. G. French 

 Angas, was read describing three new species of Australian Shells, 

 under the names of Helix Forfestiana, Helix Broiighami and 

 Eu7yta Brazieri. 



A communication from Mr. Henry Adams was also read 

 on two new Land-shells : these were proposed to be named res- 

 pectively Eiirycratcra Farafanga, found on a sandy plain in the 

 South-East of Madagascar, near the Farafanga River, and Pu- 

 pinopsis Augasi, from the Louisiade Archipelago, in the South- 

 East of New Guinea. 



Some time ago Prof. Michael Foster and Mr. A. G Dew 

 Smith read a paper before the Royal Society on the behavior 

 of the hearts of Mollusks under the influence of electric currents. 



We regret to announce the death of the distinguished French 

 naturalist, Professor G. P. Deshayes, on the 9th of June last, after 

 a long illness. He was well known as the author of the splendid 

 work on the "Tertiary Mollusca," of the "Paris Basin," and other 

 important conchological and palaeontological publications 



At a sale by auction, on the 29th of June last, by Mr. J. C. 

 Stevens, of Covent Garden, of a collection of shells, which com. 

 prised specimens from the Norris and Dennison collections, inj 

 eluding type shells, figured by Reeve, Ave notice that a beautifu 

 specimen of Cypraea aurantia went for ^^3 5s. od. ; a very fine 

 well-marked specimen of Conus zonatus, for ^2 5s. od. ; a beau- 

 tiful shell of Harpa imperialis, for j^i 8s. od. ; another for 

 J^i 17s. 6d. ; an example of Cypraea nivosa, from the Norris 

 collection, ^6 ; the unique type specimen of Conus racemosus, 

 for J^2> 15s- od.; Conus zonatus, for ^2 ; a very beautiful speci- 

 men of Conus nobilis J^t, 5s. od. ; besides a large number of lots 

 including more than one species- 



