56 CURRENT LITERATURE. 



Corps allonge presque ovale, manteau conveve sur le <lo.s dans les cchantilloiis 

 conserves dan Falcool, tres finenient ru<xeu.\, intierement parseme des petites 

 granulations presque seulement visibles a la loupe sur les boids inferieurs ; couleur 

 vert-olivatre sur le dos et jaunatre inferieurement. Pied ctroit, un peu conique 

 posterieurement et un pue i^lus elargi vers le milieu de sa longueur, strie trans- 

 versalement. 



Les tentacles superieurs sont rides transversalcmenl, bleuatres, les inferieurs 

 bifides et rugueux comnie la peau de la tete. 



Longeur du manteau ... ... ... ... 42 nim. 



>» >, pied jS ,, 



Largeur du manteau sur le dos ... ... 23 ,, 



,, ,, pied ... ... ... ... 7 !, 



Hauteur ... ... ... ... ... ... 12 ,, 



Largeur des bords du manteau ... ... ... 6h ,, " 



— W.E.C. 



Pilsbry, H. A. — Notices of new Chitons. I\". Naut., 1894, vol. viii., pp. 8-9. 



Pilsbry, H. A. — Notices of new Jai)anese Molluscs. IL /l>iif., pp. 9-10. 



Pilsbry, H. A. — Peroslyhis, a wtt^^ genus of Fusoid gasteropod. IlnJ., pp. 17-18. 

 I'r(jbably only the apex of a /•'itsiis. 



Pilsbry, H. A. — Notices of new Japanese Molluscs. IIP Ibid., j). 16. 



Pilsbry, H. A. — Notices of newjapane.se Molluscs. I\'. Ibid., j). 29-31. 



Pilsbry, H. A. — Note on Lipariis. Ibid., p. 35. 



Pilsbry, H. A. — Notices of new Japanese Molluscs. //;/(/., pp. 47-8. 

 Clausilia slcanisii is a new species from Loochon Is. 



Pilsbry, H. A.— Critical list of Molluscs collected in the I'otomac Valley. Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., 1894, pp. 11-31, pi. i. 

 The group of shells gener.Uly called Zonites by .\merican authors is critically 

 reviewed, and Mr. Pilsbry points out that Zonites is confined to European faunas. 

 He divides the American Zonites — so called — into Oi/ipkaliiia, Raf. (1831), 

 [contains fiilii:;inosa, the rejiroductive organs of which are figured], Vitrea, Fitz. , 

 (1833) [contains arborea, electriiia, and indentata], and Gastrodonta, Alb. (1850) 

 [contains siippressa and lioera\ Two new varieties are described of Polv,::;yra 

 trideiitata. There is also a preliminary description of Pkilo/iiyiiis. 



Pilsbry, H. A. — List of Port Jackson Chitons collected by Dr. J. C. Cox, 

 with a revision of Australian Acatithochitidtc. Ibid., pp. 69-89, pis. ii. -iv. 



Hapoplax is a new section for IscJniochiton siiiaragdiiiiis, Ang. Meluroplax 

 is a new sub-genus al Acanthochites, holding the same relation to it as Palloihiton 

 does to Clurtopleui'a. Loricella is raised from a section of Lorica to a genus. 

 The following are new species: — Acantliochites bednalli and Chiton loxi. The 

 paper will be invaluable to students of Australasian Chitons. 



Quadras, J. F. and MoellendorfF, O. F. von. — Diag. spec. nov. ex insulis 

 I'iiilippinis. Nachr. Deutsch. Malak. Cesel., 1894, pp. 113- 130. 



fJolle, Hermann. — Diag. neuen orientalischen arten. Ibid., pji. 136-8. 

 Four new Helix and a new Zonites, mostly from Cyprus. 



Simroth, H. — Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Kaukasisch-armerischen Nacktsch 

 necken-fauna. Sitz. (Jesel. d. vviss .Math. -Nat. , Prag. , 1893, pp. 8-23, T. xvii. 

 Liniax priinitivus is described as new. Its anatomy is described and figured, 

 and at some length compared with other species. 



