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Chloritts Edwardi, Gude, ascribed with some little doubt to 

 the Moluccas, is found in the Island of Ceram, where it was found by 

 the Rev. Father Le Coq d'Armanville, who lost his life in New 

 Guinea. My specimens were received from the Abbe" Mfege, 

 Omphalotropis macromphalu, Bavay (Journ. de Conch., 1905, vol. 

 liii, p. 250, figs. 9, 10, 11), is the same as 0. Quadrasi, v. Moll., 

 and therefore becomes a synonym of the latter. The shell is from 

 the Island of Guajan (or Guam), Ladrone Islands. Von Mollen- 

 dorff s paper appears to have escaped the notice of Mr. Bavay. — C. 

 F. Ancet. 



Note ox Dtakia and Pseudopartula. — A recent article by 

 Lieut. -Col. H. H. Godwin Austen (Proc. Malac. Soc. Lond., vii, p. 

 93) has called my attention to the anatomical description of Dyakia 

 nasuta {Helix nasuta Metcalfe) by the same author (P. Z. S., 1891), 

 which I had overlooked when treating of this species in Manual of 

 Conchology, xiv, p. 12. It appears that the snail belongs to the 

 Zonitidce. There cannot be much doubt that the Su mat ran and 

 Javan species forming the group Pseudopartula, and which I asso- 

 ciated with nasuta, will also be transferred to Zonitidce, since their 

 resemblance to nasuta seems too strongly marked to be adventitious. 

 — H. A. Pii.sbry. 



A Synonym of Brachtpodella. — In my monograph, of Uro- 

 coptidce I overlooked the name Microstoma hardeyanum Jousseaume. 

 Mem. Societe Zoologique de France for 1889, p. 247. This is 

 Cylindrella hanleyana of Pfeiflfer, a species of BrachypodeUa. The 



name Microstoma will become a synonym of BrachypodeUa. It was 

 probably not intended as a new generic name, being very likely ;in 

 error for Mychostoma H. A. PlLSBRY. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Helicina occulta Say (Proc. Davenport Acad, of Sciences, i.\, 

 pp. 173-180). Additional Note <>x IIki.k i\\ o< i m ia (Jour- 

 nal of Geology, xiii, 1905, pp. 232-237). By B. Shimek. The 

 rather extensive records of this species in both conchological and 

 geological literature are reviewed in these papers, with copious notes 

 and comparisons of recent and fossil shells. The alleged depauper- 



