86 Qimrtcfly Jowual of Conchology. 



Three Italian naturalists are now exploring New Guinea, 

 Signor Beccari in the North and Signor d'Albertis and Tom- 

 masinelli in the South. 



C. P. G. 



Japanese Gastropoda. — A List of the Gastropoda col- 

 lected in Japanese Seas, by Commander H. C. St. John, R.N. 

 By Edgar A. Smith, F.Z.S., of the British Museum — (Annals 

 & Mag. Nat. Hist. June 1875; Series IV, Vol. XV., pp. 414 — 427 



This enumeration, which is to be continued, embraces the 

 names and localities of 52 species of Gastropoda. Nineteen 

 species are mentioned as new, the following being characterized . 



Pleurotoma veiielnata ; Murex {Cerastoma) endermoiiis ; 



P. Sancti-Ioannis ; Euthria fuscolahiata ; 



P- Jeffrey sii ; Fiisus [Sipho?) manchuriciis ; 



P. chocolata ; JVassa tenuis ; 



P. inconstans ; JVassa fuscolineata ; 



P. tuberosa ; Buccinum Jeffi-eysii ; 



P. patriielis ; Admete ovata ; 



Bela iessoeusis ; A. globularis ; 



Full descriptions are promised to be given "elsewhere" of the 

 following new species of Tei-ehridce : 



Terebra albozonata ; T. luelanaane ; 



T. (Afyiirelld) batJiyraphe. 



Descriptions of some new Shells from Kerguelen's 

 Island.— By Edgar A. Smith, F.Z.S. (Annals & Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 July 1875 ; Ser. IV, Vol. XVI., pp. 67—73. 



These are the undescribed species brought home by the Rev. 

 A. E. Eaton, naturalist to the British Transit-of-Venus Expedition 

 to Kerguelen's Island. It is intended to publish elsewhere com- 

 plete and detailed accounts of all the specimens obtained, and 

 brought home by him. Of mollusca the number is small, only 

 about 20 species ; but of these the proportion of new forms is 

 large, and several of them very remarkable discoveries. One new 

 genus, Eaton la, is characterized, and the following new species 

 are briefly described : 



Striithiolaria mirabilis, Swain's Bay; 



Biiccinopsis Eatoni, Swain's Bay, and Royal Sound ; 



Trophon albolabratus, Swain's Bay, and Royal Sound ; 



Littorina setosa, Swain's Bay ; 



Pissoa Ket'gueleni, On a sponge ; 



Eatonia Kerguelensis, On a sponge ; 



