Miscellaneous. 



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of the MoUusca, The want of a dredge forbad any extended re- 

 search, and the time of year (January) was most adverse to any suc- 

 cessful search for the land or freshwater kinds : consequently the list 

 is most imperfect, the whole of the marine shells having been col- 

 lected, on the shore, within three miles of the capital of Corfu. 

 Those distinguished by an asterisk were evidently washed up, and 

 were untenanted. 



As the ' Enumeratio MoUuscorum Sicilise ' of Philippi is in the 

 hands of every conchologist, the names adopted by him, in his second 

 volume, have been accepted, for facility of reference. 



Venus decussata. 



Cardium rusticuin(^edule var. glau- 



cum). 

 Cardita sulcata*. 

 Spondylus Gaedaropus*. 

 Area Nose*. 



barbata*. 

 Chiton Siculus. 



Patella Lusitanica (= punctata of 

 Lamarck). 



Tarentina. 



cserulea. 

 Helix aspersa. 



striata. 



Carthusianella. 



Corcyrensis (of Pfeiffer, Monog. 

 Helic). 

 Bulimus acutus. 

 Achatina acicula. 

 Cochlicopa Algira. 

 Clausilia papillaris. 

 Cyclostoma elegans. 



tessellatum (as figured in Sower- 

 by's Thesaurus). 

 Rissoa Montagui. 



costata. 



elata. 



Bruguieri. 

 Truncatella truncatula (most abun- 



It is not unworthy of remark, that the plicated and dwarf varieties 

 of Buccinum corniculum are found intermingled with the ordinary 

 form, without any diminution of their varietal peculiarities. 



dant under stones in shallow 

 but decidedly salt water). 

 Haliotis tuberculata ! (not our Bri- 

 tish shell, but the lamellosa 

 of Reeve's Monograph). 

 Vermetus gigas*. 

 Trochus articulatus. 



fanulum. 



divaricatus. 



varius. 



Adriaticus. 

 Phasianella pullus. 

 Littorina Neritoides. 

 Cerithium vulgatum. 



lima. 



fuscatum. 

 Pleurotoma Ginnanianura. 

 Murex brandaris*. 



trunculus*. 

 Ranella lanceolata. 

 Buccinum variabile. 



D'Orbignyi. 



scriptum. 



pusio (maculosum of Lamarck). 



corniculum. 

 Columbella rustica. 

 Mitra Savignyi. 

 Conus Mediterraneus. 



ON LITTORINA PALLIATA. BY WILLIAM THOMPSON. 



To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. 



Weymouth, June 6, 1852. 



Gentlemen, — Messrs. Forbes and Hanley in their account of the 

 Littorince, at page 52. vol. iii. of the 'British MoUusca,' state their 

 conviction that the result of a completed knowledge of this genus 

 would be a reduction of the number of true British species ; and in 



