GOO Geological Societt/. 



Memoirs of the National Museum, Melbourne. Xo. 4. Published 

 by Order of the Trustees. Melbourne, February 1012. Pp. 57, 

 pis. viii. 



This contains an extremely interesting and varied series of papers, 

 dealing with Mollusca (Land-Shells and a fossil Pecten), Insects 

 (Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, and Cicadida^), and Fijian clubs ornamented 

 with Maori patterns, &c. The article on Lepidoptera is of special im- 

 portance, furnishing us with identifications of most of the Australian 

 Lepidoptera described by Walker in his ' Characters of undescribed 

 Lepidoptera Heterocera.' The " Index to the Land-Shells of 

 Victoria " and the " Catalogue of Yictorian Cicadida^ in the National 

 Museum, Melboiirne," followed by descriptions of new species, and 

 the " Notes on a Collection of Tertiary Limestones and their Fossil 

 Contents from King Island," are also valuable papers ; and we 

 have pleasure in calling attention to the activity displayed by the 

 Melbourne Museum in the publication before us. "\V. F. K. 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



March 13th, 1912.— Dr. Aubrey Strahan, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The following communication was read : — 



' Some New Lower Carboniferous Gasteropoda.* 

 By Mrs. Jane Longstatf {jiee Donald), F.L.S. 



Eight species of gasteropoda are described, six being regarded as 

 belonging to five new genera or subgenera, the others representing 

 Pithodea, De Koninck, which has not previously been recorded from 

 the British or Irish Carboniferous Limestone. Among others, the 

 shell of Pleurotomariu ( T roj^)idostroi)ha) (jrijjithi, M'Coy, is described 

 in detail, and the nature of the fine pitting of its external surface 

 is discussed. 



