324 Bibliographical Notices. 



stitiis cancellatis, varicibus nuUis ; umbilico callo funiformi cir- 

 cumcincto; labro extus simplici, margine acuto. 



Hah. Gotto Islands, 64 fathoms. 



Genus Laona, A. Ad. 



Testa semiovata, tenui, rimata, striis increment! lamellosis rugosa ; 

 spira celatse ; anfraetu ultimo magno rotundato. Apertura ampla, 

 obliqua, rotundato-ovalis ; labio recedente arcuato ; labro simplici. 



The British Bulla pruinosa belongs to the same group, which 

 offers the peculiarity of a decussate surface. The form of the 

 shells also is so different from that of any other division of Bul- 

 lidse, that I consider it desirable to point out the significance of 

 these shells by giving them a distinctive name. The animal is 

 unknown. 



Laona zonata, A. Ad. 



L. testa sordide alba, fasciis duabus transversis latis rufo-fuscia 

 ornata, lamellis longitudinalibus confertis tenuibus crenellatis et 

 striis concentricis decussata. 



Hah. O'Sima; Yohuko. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Ootheca Wolleyana. Part I. Edited by Alfred Newton, M.A. &c. 



Van Voorst, 1864. 



Under the modest title of a catalogue, or list, of the contents of 

 the egg-chest of the late John WoUey, Mr. Alfred Newton has 

 brought together and arranged a great number of valuable observa- 

 tions made by his late friend. 



We need hardly remind our readers that Mr. Wolley was a most 

 zealous and accurate ornithologist, and was especially successful in dis- 

 covering the breeding- quarters of many of the rarest European birds. 

 His labours were especially directed to the exploration of the north- 

 eastern portion of Arctic Europe, Lapland, &c., from which he used 

 to bring back, year by year, a store of most interesting observa- 

 tions and spoils to gladden the eyes of many a fellow-ornithologist, 

 and to enrich many collections with birds in a state of plumage 

 hardly known before. We rejoice to hear that the exploration of 

 this interesting district is still being carried on by Mr. Newton, who 

 seems to have inherited not only the collections, but the mantle of 

 Wolley. 



Wolley was a model naturalist. To the untiring energy and 

 fond observation of a Waterton he added the critical exactness of a 

 scholar ; and thus, in his short life, he probably did more for Euro- 

 pean ornithology than any other living naturalist. Mr. Newton 

 has found congenial employment in editing and revising (with addi- 

 tions) the memoranda of his friend ; and we have only to say, with 



