Qiiarterly Journal of Conchology. 87 



Eatonia callginosa, Swain's Bay ; 

 E. subriifesccns, On a sponge ; 

 Skenea subcanalicnlata. On a sponge ; 

 Scissmella siipraplicata, Swain's Bay ; 

 Solenella gigantca, Royal Sound ; 

 Yoldia subcequilateralis, Swain's Bay ; 



On the Development of the Pteropoda. — By M. H. 



FoL— Annals & Mag. Nat. Hist. June 1875; Ser. IV., Vol. XV., 

 pp. 439 — 441. (Translated from the Comptes Rendus, Jany. iSth 

 1875, p. 19.) 



Notes on an Examination of 4 species of Chitons, 

 with reference to Posterior Orifices. — By Wm. H. Dall. — 

 Annals & Mag. Nat. Hist., June 1875; Ser. IV., Vol. XV., pp. 

 442 — 443. (From the "Bulletin of the Essex Institute", Vol. VI., 

 August, 1874.) 



Capture of an Enormous Cuttle-Fish off Boffin 

 Island, on the coast of Connemara. — By Thos. O'Connor 

 — Zoologist, June 1875; S.S., Vol. X., pp. 4502 and 3. 



Details given by the writer, who is a sergeant in the Royal 

 Irish Constabulary at that Island. 



Notice of a gigantic Cephalopod {Dinoteuthis probos- 

 cidens) stranded at Dingle, in Kerry, 200 years ago. — 



By A. G. More, F.L.S., &c.— Zoologist July 1875 ; S.S., Vol. X., 

 pp. 4526—4531. 



Life Histories of the Mollusca. — By A. S. Packard, jun. 



American Naturalist, May 1875, Vol. IX., pp. 282 — 307. 



An elaborate illustrated article dealing with the classification 

 of the mollusca, and the development of the several groups, Lain- 

 ellibranchiata, Cephalophora and Cephalopoda. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



A communication was read to the Zoological Society of 

 London on the 20th of April from Mr. R. J. Lechmere- 

 Guppy, on the occurrence of Helix coactiliata in Trinidad, 

 & on the general distribution of the land and freshwater mollusca 

 of that island. A second communication from Mr. Guppy, 

 contained a note on a variety of Biilinius constridus found in 

 Venezuelan Guiana. 



